Chile Time

Moving On

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:32:00 GMT

The Truck Farm is finally making the long awaited move to a new location. While we are making this move we are unable to keep our kitchens running, and therefore we are going to sell out of a few things. We'll keep an updated list here on what product we are currently out of. If you want to order that product as soon as it becomes available send us an email at sweethot@sweethos.com and we'll let you know when your favorite becomes available again. The shortage on these products should not last past the early part of June.

1.Besito Caliente

2.Green Chile Cornbread

3.Jalapeno Catsup

4.Cherry A'More

Change of Pace

Fri, 04 May 2012 22:15:00 GMT

We here at The Truck Farm are mostly know for our chile products. Our two most popular products have Caliente and Hots in their names. Pretty much everything you'll find on this site will have some sort of heat to it. However, there are three exceptions in the Honey Mustard with Dill, the Campfire Mustard, and our Raw Honey. The Honey Mustard with dill is a sweet mustard with a hint of dill flavor added to it. The Campfire mustard even though it has a fire on the label also has no heat to it, though it does have a smokey flavor reminiscent of sitting around a campfire. Then there is the honey. Our honey isn't like what you would find in the grocery stores. It is unprocessed pure honey whereas most of what you'll find has been cooked to produce a clearer honey while destroying some of honey's inherent benefits. Our honey is darker and more flavorful, a result of leaving nature's sweetener all alone.

Jim Hawman

Sorta Pointless, Sorta Interesting

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:08:00 GMT

If you happen to have a smart phone, and happen to have a bar code scanner app on it, you can now scan the bar codes of most of our products on your phone and do a product search through Google to track down what you want. This is perfect for the people out there who have an old label of ours but aren't sure where to get that spicy stuff they once had. That is the interesting part. The pointless part is that anybody who is reading this already knows where are site is, and most likely knows what they want of ours. Also, it may only work with Android phones since that is a Google operating system.

Justin Hawman

Good and Good for you

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:49:00 GMT

Chile tastes good. If you're reading this blog you probably already know that. What you might not know is that it is also good for you. Green chile has very high levels of vitamin C, red chile high levels of vitamin A. Studies have proven that diets are easier to maintain with an influx of chile to make low fat foods more palatable. Then there are these studies here and here that show capsaicin, what gives chile its burn, to aid in curing cancer and obesity in lab rats. While we can make no definitive assertions as to the veracity of these studies, the other health benefits alone make chile worth eating. Plus it tastes so good.

Jim Hawman

Recipes

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:27:00 GMT

We have a page on this site with a bunch of recipes for our products. They are the same recipes that have been around forever and ever and we want to update them. Well, really we want you to update them. We are looking for new recipes using any of our products. The five best will be posted on this blog and then on the recipe page where it will be credited to whomever created it. Send any ideas you have to sweethot@sweethots.com with Recipe in the subject line. We'll let you know if it will have a permanent place on our recipe page or not, and next week we will start posting the new ideas here after we've sorted through them.

Justin Hawman

Sweet Red Jalapeno

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:41:00 GMT

We have finally made a batch of the Red Hots and they are back up on the site.

Rooms on the Move

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:03:00 GMT

We have two walk in refrigeration units that we have to move into our new place before we can get final inspections on everything. The refrigerator is 6X10 and the freezer is 8X10. They are basically little rooms. Several people have wondered how these rooms will be moved. They are both modular, with the walls able to be taken apart and reassembled elsewhere. It will take a few days to get them apart and then put them back together. When they are reassembled they will need to be rewired and replumbed so that they have power and drainage available. It is getting closer.

Jim Hawman

Soon....ish

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:02:00 GMT

The latest news on our big move is that we should be in our new place by the time everybody is wearing green. The hold up at this moment is that we didn't schedule in advance getting our walk-in refrigeration units moved. We didn't know when we would be able to do them so now we have to wait two weeks. Once they are moved over everything else should be able to follow them shortly. Instead of lying about how many months it is going to take, we can now confidently start lying about how many weeks.

Jim Hawman

Shortages

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:41:00 GMT

Once again we find ourselves telling our customers that we can't sell them something. In this case it is actually two things that we are going to be without for awhile. The first is again the Red Hots. Unlike the last time this isn't an issue of finding the red jalapenos but in storing them. When we get ready to make our move our freezer will be down for four days and we don't have anywhere to stash 2,000 pounds of frozen jalapeno. As soon as we get the freezer over and operational we'll order the jalapenos and make Red Hots again. The other product is the Green Enchilada Casserole. The source for one of our ingredients went out of business so we switched to a new source; they are currently sold out and we can't find anywhere else to buy vegetarian chicken broth powder. We'll keep you updated on how everything goes.

Jim Hawman

Hammers and Nails and Stuff

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:59:00 GMT

I know it seems like we've been stringing all of you along with the promise of us telling ya'll that we would be moving to a new place. We've gone from an estimate of 5-6 months to 3-4 months then finally about a month. The 6 month estimate was way off as it will soon be two years since we first decided to move. The current estimate of about a month has been the current estimate for the past three months. We have finally finished almost everything we can do without electrocuting ourselves, so hopefully the month timetable is correct. Soon we'll start estimating "about a week" and a month or six later we should be moved into our new place. This is a long way of saying that we are the worst contractors in the history of mankind, and while we are availble for hire I would advise against it. Also, from now on we will stick to what we know: Chile.

Justin Hawman

Easy Green Chile Sauce

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:11:00 GMT

I was going to post a recipe for green chile sauce here that had been culled from hours of research on the internet so as to provide you all with the best possible recipe out there. Then looking at most of the recipes I realized that they take upwards of an hour and usually involve ovens and blenders and saucepans. So instead, how about the recipe for what we use in our house for when we want to make green chile sauce.

Easy Green Chile Sauce

1 Jar Just Plain Green Chile 1 Can Cream of Chicken soup Open jar and empty it into a large mixing bowl. Open can and empty into the same bowl, if you use a different bowl it won't work at all. Mix.

You can add garlic or salt or whatever you want to get the taste right for you, but this is a great way to have a base to start from and it takes less than five minutes. Ten if you have to hunt for the can opener. You can then use this recipe on anything from Green Enchiladas to Green Chile Smothered Burritos. Jim Hawman

Scrapped Plan

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:52:00 GMT

In our blog a while back we talked about adding a forum to this site so that our customers can connect with each other easier. It will only work with new people with new e-mail addresses who have never been here before, so we've scrapped that plan until we can get a complete redesign going for the site.

The Truck Farm

Twitter

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:21:00 GMT

We've been listening to our customers, and as part of our new stuff for a new year we are now on twitter. Okay, so it was only one customer who wanted to know our twitter address. But either way we are now @TTFSweetHots for those who want to know. There is no guarantee that we'll keep it as current as we do Facebook, but we'll see how the response is.

Justin Hawman

Best Sellers

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:19:00 GMT

It is that time of year again when we update our best sellers page to include what sold best over the past year, and to exclude anything that fell out of the top ten. Two products dropped out this year, the Jalapeno Jelly and the Salt Seasonings. The Salt blends came close, but they were a casualty of the doubling of the sales for our No-Salt blends. The Jalapeno Jelly met a similar fate as more people went for the Chile Marmalades than the jelly this year. The biggest surprise has been Jalapeno Honey Mustard Hot which grew greatly from 2010. It's sales combined with the other honey mustards earn them a place on this list. In order of the top selling products here are the top ten for 2011.

1. Sweet Hots (Mild and Hot)

2. Besito Caliente

3. Just Plain Green Chile (Hot, Medium, and Mild)

4. Chile Verde Stew (Original and Mild)

5. Jalapeno Catsup

6. Jalapeno Mustard

7. Chile No-Salt Blends (Green Chile, Chipotle, Jalapeno and Red Chile)

8. Instant Picante Salsa Mixes (Medium, Hot, Muzzle Blast, Mild and X-tra Hot)

9. Honey Mustards (Jalapeno, Red Chile, and Dill)

10. Chile Marmalades (Green Chile and Red Chile)

Jim Hawman

New Year

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:24:00 GMT

We haven't been updating this blog as much as we would like to, so it has been awhile since anything has been posted here. Now is the time of the year to tell you about changes we will be making in the New Year. We aren't going to try to reinvent the wheel or anything, but there will be a few changes. First off, on the 2nd of January we will update the bestsellers page to show the top ten most popular products of 2011 based upon units sold. Secondly, we hope to add a forum area to the site to make it easier for the fans of our products to communicate with each other. Thirdly, we will be updating the Chile Time blog on a more regular basis. Lastly, tell us in the comments below what else you think we need to do, and the doable will be done.

Thanks,

Justin Hawman