The Stars Are Also Fire

2026 Q1 Update I think towards the end of 2025 I got into some pretty serious burnout and despite the year starting off very strong with a c...

 Butterfly Bakery Maple Rum Chipotle I am well prepared to say that Claire Georges, mastermind behind Butterfly Bakery (of Vermont) is a cer...

Gindo’s x Deane’s Market & Deli Sun-Dried Tomato I am not at all familiar with Deane’s Market & Deli, but figured it was probably so...

Butterfly Bakery Honey Field Habanero I’m tempted to make this a relative rarity for this blog and do a fairly short review, as I don’t real...

Merman’s Revenge Cajun This is the second product I’ve from this company, the first a glaze that I did an FOH video on in the late part of l...

Gindo’s Mild Roasted Red Pepper Note: Support video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFkTRz8Onqk   This is a bit of an unusua...

Butterfly Bakery Chipotle Squash If one wanted a sauce that was strongly reminiscent of fall and a warm, comforting hug in a bottle, one wou...

Four Sixes Salt Creek Here’s another one that I threw on to get me over shipping on Amazon, for which it serves its purpose admirably. I had...

Butterfly Bakery Maple Sparkle Sriracha One of the nicer things is finding out that a company you deeply admire because of their immense cul...

Woodstock Ghost Pepper This is one of those rare reviews that are a tad difficult to write, so I beg your indulgence if we bounce around a l...