Wow! What a beautiful day and weekend ahead.

Just had to throw it out there that this weekend we are eperiencing the most beautiful weather of 2012 yet. If you get a chance to visit the island, do it. It's gorgeous! A lot of the shops that have closed for the winter are re-opening and town is bustling with smiling faces. 

WINTER WARM UP DISCOUNT

Greetings from the island.  As a way of saying thank you, we are offering a 10% discount on all internet orders over $25.00 now through February 15th. Warm up your winter season. We are gearing up for another busy Spring and Summer so we want to make room for some fabulous new products.  Tell your friends and by shopping together, you can save even more.  

As we have said in the past, we have the best customers anywhere and we look forward to another fabulous season with some really great new products.  Keep an eye out for Orca Poop coming soon! It will be a dark chocolate fudge made with the ghost pepper.

Happy 2012

Happy New Year to our favorite Chiliheads. Wow, what a year 2011 was, of course, thanks to all of you. We did a record year and we owe it all to the ones who share our passion for the flavorful and spicy stuff.  And, by the way, those of you that are new to the pepper world, how many of you actually got colds this year?  We would be interested in your feedback on that one.  Oh yeah, and we had to share the Christmas pic of the Cow and Pig wishing everyone peace this next year.  Thank you Steve and Laurie Duncan. We love these guys.

We are still working on the cookbook and as a reminder, we need your input.   If you've created a recipe using the stuff, please e-mail it to us with your name and hometown and state. You will get the credit in the book! We are hoping to have something this spring or early summer.

The holidays were busy and full of parties and now it's time to settle in and start thinking about the new products coming our way this new year.  Frog Balls, BluesMan BBQ Sauce, Rhino Peri Peri Sauce, and the new products from Heavenly Heat of Tacoma and of course the Z&Z Honey Company products continue to be some of our best sellers.  Speaking of Heavenly Heat, we just brought in their Pure Ghost Powder and Genie is experimenting with a fudge. The white chocoloate fudge will be called "Ghost Poop" and the dark chocolate and white fudge mixture will be "Orca Poop".  Of course they will be shaped in little turdlettes with special lables!

If you have any ideas, we would love to hear from you. Our next newsletter goes out in mid-January, so be on the lookout! And again, many thanks for helping us keep our little shop going. Expansion is on the horizon. More news to come..............

Drop By On Christmas Eve

Hey all,

Since Christmas  falls on a Sunday this year, Christmas Eve will be Saturday and we are going to be open regular hours. Since we know everyone will be in the holiday spirit, we are going to have a lot of goodies and snacks here in the store that afternoon.  So, if you happen to be in downtown Friday Harbor to look at the lights and capture the feeling of our small town, drop by the Hot Shop and check out our ghost fudge (yep, it will have the ghost pepper in it) and some other treats we are planning.  Don't think that everything in our store is over the top with heat because if you know us, you know that it's more about the flavor than it is the heat.  Of course we have extreme heat products, but we love changing peoples minds who come in and say "I just can't eat hot stuff".  Once we educate people to let them know about the health benefits, they get hooked.  We've converted a lot of people who swear they hate the hot stuff and they are now some of our Chilihead followers.  We have dessert hot sauces as well.  Toad Sweat has a chocolate orange, lemon vanilla, cranberry and key lime flavors. Yummy on a good vanilla bean ice cream.

Anyway, keep us in mind if you happen to be in downtown Friday Harbor on Christmas Eve.  Drop by in the afternoon and share the holidays with us and try some of the goodies! If we aren't fortunate enough to see you, we wish you all a safe and magical holiday with families and friends.

Christmas Ideas!

Happy early December everyone from Gilligan's Island North,

Just wanted to send out a reminder that even though you may not be able get to the shop to do your Christmas shopping, we have some great ideas on our website.  Our custom label program has gone nuts and we're having so much fun creating personalized labels for every occasion.   We have done some comical labels from grandkids to grandparents and for people giving customized bottles instead of Christmas cards alone, they send them a custom bottle as their card and gift all in one. You can send us a high quaility .jpg and think of a caption. We'll make up a proof and e-mail it back to you. We work with you to get the label just the way you want it. You can do 1 or 2 bottles at a time, or inquire on quantity discounts.
We also have our Hot Sauce of the Month Club which is very popular with people all across the country. Each month we send out 2 bottles of hot sauce (hand picked by Ed of course) and we include recipe ideas. We mix it up every once in a while and include a rub or other product we think our customers need to know about.  All the details of both of these programs are available on our website or feel free to shoot us an e-mail or give us a call.

Wishing you and yours a very happy and stress free holiday season.

Thanksgiving Wishes

As we close in on one of our favorite holidays, we wish you all a safe, warm, and relaxing holiday with family and friends.  It's this time of year we are able to re-stock our souls with the feelings about the ones we love in our lives.  Life seems to slow a bit, the days are shorter (and colder). This year, we want to thank all of our customers and guests to let us take this little shop to where it is today. We have the best Chiliheads in the world and we wish you all the very best.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Eddie & Genie Williams

Pre-Thanksgiving Greatings from The Island

Hi All,

Hope this finds everyone getting into the fall season and ready to enjoy some time with family, friends and those people that mean the most to you.  Just wanted to share our latest achievement with our favorite Chiliheads as last Thursday evening we were honored with the "Buzz" Creative Marketing award by the San Juan Chamber of Commerce. We are truly blessed to live and be allowed to live our dream in the San Juan Islands.  (Don't ya' just love Ed's shirt?) Pepper Dude!

Don't know if you've been noticing lately but as we watch the Food Network (a lot) and the Cooking Channel (a lot) we can't help but notice the increased introduction of peppers and fresh spice ingredients these premier chefs are using. We are constantly having to tell people "it's not all about the heat, it's about the flavor".  But that's OK, our message is getting through. More and more people are chosing the healthy benefits of peppers and incorporating them into their meals. 

Of course we still offer the extreme heat sauces (the ones with flavor that is) and it's always fun to have a group of people walk in and ask us "what's the hottest one ya' got?"  Meet Your Maker from Heavenly Heat out of Tacoma is our hottest at 5 million Scoville Heat Units. Believe me, it's a one toothpick at a time additive.  And we still have our hot favorite "Z, Nothing Beyond" at 4 Millions Scoville Heat Units.  "Z" has a wonderful flavor and both of these sauces, used correctly of course, offer a great meal experience.  With Meet Your Maker, we use a 1 toothpick dip into a chili or stew for a fantastic flavor. It's got the Ghost Pepper, Ghost Pepper Extract and Ghost Pepper powder to earn its reputation. Fantastic packaging too in a black collectors coffin with a wax seal on the bottle. Nice presentation. Great flavor used sparingly. 

"Z, Nothing Beyond" is the 4 Million Scoville Heat Sauce and is made from the Red Savina Habanero that fools you. It starts off slowly with the banana, papaya, guava juice and passion fruit base, then the pepper takes you on a ride. It takes a full minute to build and we've even had guys hand the car keys to the wives and tell them "you're driving hon" from the euphoric effect they get. We never get tired of witnessing that!  

As you know, we sample our products every day and look forward to seeing you all when you make it to the island. We are currently researching the new products (and of cours the Butch T Scorpion is one on our list) so keep us on your watch list.  Can't wait for Spring and Summer to see our favorite Chiliheads and show off the new products!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and your families. Without you, we wouldn't be here! We are truly thankful for all you guys and we will be celebrating with a beer can Turkey.

Thank you everyone!
Eddie & Genie Williams