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Here at prettysassy.com we get a lot of email.  A lot of email about which red pepper Jam or Jelly is the best.  It’s one of those things that people are nervous to talk about it.   I want to shed some light on this subject and may make you feel less trashy about your love of the spicy jewel.

While Grocery shopping I  spotted Reese’s Hot Pepper Jelly and Delicae Gourmet’s Roasted Red Pepper Jam and wondered..  Mmmmmn, which one is best?

I’m pretty sure I’m one of like 4 people who have a fondness for pepper jelly, so I figured finding someone elses review would be a lost cause.

So I conducted a formal testing by carefully layout out 6 townhouse crackers, topping them with a modest layer of Philadelphia Cream Cheese and slathering on either the Jelly or the Roasted Pepper Jam. 

I kept a freshly opened can of Diet Sunkist to ensure that my palate was properly cleansed between tests.

Reeses: Smoother consistency with tiny bits of seeds and of  red jalapeno scattered through.  From looks it reminds me of canned Cranberries.    The smell from the jar is almost all vinegar with a little smack from the peppers.  Spread on my cracker it looks pretty much like any other jam spread on a townhouse cracker.  The first thing I taste is sweet.  A tangy, over-the-top sugar high sweet that makes me feel like I’m eating cherry jell-o.  Then it runs hot.  Sort of kicks your tonsils on the way down.  It’s so candy-like, I want to take a spoon and dig in.  The sweet hot combination is very well balanced and it seems to turn on all the bells and whistles in your mouth as it goes down.

Delicae Roasted Red Pepper Jam: I open the jar and it looks like jarred bruschetta.  I see chunks of peppers and onions and slight bits of char(from the roasting I guess).  The texture is almost like a chutney, It’s pretty and more sophisticated than Reese’s.  On the cracker it looks like something that you might even serve.   It sort of piles on the cracker in an indulgent mound.  It smells just like pickled onions.  In fact this jam really reminds me more of a relish.   When I eat it, the sour and sweet really fight it out, making for an excellent balance.  It would make an interesting relish on a hamburger.

I really wanted a clear winner, but there isn’t.  They we’re both good.   Roasted Red Pepper Jam was far more sophisticated than the Sweet-Hot Reese’s but it all depends on the mood your in.
Kelly

For the past few weeks me and the Mister(no not Mr. Mister) got hit with the declutter bug.  And have been going through the rooms of our little apartment ebaying, giving away and trashing all of our belongings.

I kidded to him that pretty soon we(geek technophiles) would only own bowl and would be free of all posesions.

He laughed, but the truth is we got hit hard.  We got hit BEFORE the big Christmas present day.  And in the misters words “It’s really quite liberating”.  He got rid of DVDs.  That’s big, like huge big.

We became crazy little robots running around going “I don’t need this!” and “Ohhh, ohhh, ohh..  I can get rid of this..  These extra checkbooks are totally clogging us.”

But here is the bad part.  We, people who generally like to see ourselves as special and individuals are like everybody else.

We went to Target to replace all the items we had given away and were shocked to see a special area by the clothes created to sell storage containers.  We were also surprised to see people in near American Gladiator(the old one, not the new one) for forest green rubbermaid tubs.  We had to stand back to avoid being beaten up by the fantastic plastic.  Evidently everyone likes to start the new year with less stuff so that they can buy more stuff.

Then I was poking on lifehacker and found an article on post holiday decluttering.

We are just like everyone else.

Anywhoo, I’m off to look at amazon now.