Author Archives: Mike from Madness

About Mike from Madness

Mike Hultquist is a chili pepper and spicy food enthusiast with an insane desire to play in the kitchen. He's all about cooking with chili peppers, but also loves chili pepper gardening, preserving, and experimenting with new and creative ways to incorporate spicy food into life. He's also a produced screenwriter, novelist, and web site developer.

10 Tips for Cooking with Super Hot Chili Peppers

Super Hot chili peppers are gaining popularity, and that makes us wonderfully happy at Chili Pepper Madness. We love all chili peppers, from the heatless Bell Pepper all the way up to the devastatingly hot Moruga Scorpion which currently tops the scale at more than 2 Million Scoville Heat Units. Continue reading

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Spicy Turkey Burger Recipes – Up Your Satisfaction Quotient

Growing up I was a huge burger fan. Didn’t matter where I got my burger, as long as I got my fix. Burgers were like pizza, really, in that a good burger is “great”, and a bad burger and “still pretty good.” Sure, some were better than others, but as a kid, the one thing I shied away from was a turkey burger. At the time, I felt turkey just couldn’t satisfy that ultimate crave that a beef burger can quash. Continue reading

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Chilihead and Spicy Food Lover Deals

Spicy food lovers! With Memorial Day just around the corner, I’ve reached out to the spicy food and chilihead community and they responded with some great deals on their products. Get your virtual shopping carts ready and stock your real kitchen shelves. Help support the chilihead community and enjoy! Continue reading

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Chili Pepper Sauce from New Zealand

Hot sauce makers come from all over the world, and we had a chance to try some hot sauces from New Zealand hot sauce maker “Fire Dragon Chillies”. Continue reading

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Review: Jalapeno Poppers and Other Stuffed Chili Peppers

The Burn Blog has just posted a review of my cookbook, “Jalapeno Poppers and Other Stuffed Chili Peppers”. It’s a fun review and worth the read. Here is an excerpt: Continue reading

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High River Sauces Launches New Hot Sauce With Food Network Chef Chris Santos & Platinum Selling Artist Stephen Pearcy of Ratt

Looking for a new flavor or a new way of spicing up your life? Well look no more. High River Sauces, the award winning Hot Sauce Company started by music industry veteran and Mosh Potatoes Cookbook (Simon & Schuster) author … Continue reading

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TABASCO® Gets a Cool New Web Site

Any Tabasco fans out there? Opinions are divided in the chilehead community, but you can’t deny the popularity of this particular brand of hot sauces. I just received a press release today – they’ve launched a spiffy new web site that is clean, functional, and user-friendly. Continue reading

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Spicing Up Your Tilapia with Chili Peppers

I had a discussion recently with a group of friends about tilapia. If you’ve never had tilapia, it is a very mild white fish. The consensus in the room was that tilapia is rather boring, and if given the choice, most would steer clear of it and opt for another dish focus. I would have to disagree. Continue reading

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The Hot Sauce Bible: Revised Old & New Testament

The authors are seeking worldwide manufacturers who make spicy sauces & salsas with chile peppers as their primary occupation to submit their story for a book abut the history of the hot sauce manufacturing industry, to be published at a later date. Continue reading

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Interview: Al “Buddah” Goldenberg, ILoveitSpicy.com

Al “Buddah” Goldenberg is what I call a mover and shaker in the hot sauce world. While he doesn’t make hot sauce himself, he tirelessly and unselfishly promotes hot sauce and hot sauce makers around the world. Buddah runs ILoveItSpicy.com, a popular foodie site that features hot sauce reviews as well as other fun spicy fun, such as the popular “Feast Your Eyes on This” cooking challenge. We spoke with him recently about his experience in the hot sauce world. Continue reading

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