Ed & Patti’s Salsas

Ed & Patti’s have been making homemade Hot and Spicy Gourmet Salsas, using Michigan grown chile peppers, and other all natural ingredients, since 1998.

All three Salsas feature Tomato, Onions, Garlic, Cilantro, Sugar, and other Assorted Spices, and the most unique thing about them, is that they all have Pineapple as the second most common ingredient, right behind the Tomato.

The Mild Salsa uses 2 different peppers, one being Poblano Chile, and the other being a Hungarian Yellow Hot Chile.

The Medium Salsa uses 3 different peppers, featuring the Poblano Chile, The Hungarian Yellow Hot Chile, and Hot Red Cherry Chile.

The Hot Salsa uses 4 different peppers, featuring the Poblano Chile, The Hungarian Yellow Hot Chile, the Hot Red Cherry Chile, and Habenero Chile.

All three of these Salsas are a attractive brick red / yellow color, and all have large chunks of tomato, pineapple, onion, and chile in them.

All three are of a nice thickness for dipping chips into. Not thin or watery at all.

All three Salsas have a distinctive aroma of Tomato, followed by the pineapple, then the onion and garlic, and of chile peppers. The chile aroma is a bit more pronounced in the Hot Salsa which has the habenero peppers in the mix.

No extracts are used in the Salsas, and Citric Acid is the only added preservative.

Ed & Patti state that they wanted to make a Salsa that had heat, and lots of flavor.
They have accomplished this very nicely. The pineapple in each of these Salsas adds a very unique and somewhat tropical flavor. And the heat levels are also about right. The Mild Salsa has just a slight heat, the Medium Salsa has a bit more heat, and the Hot Salsa has some extra kick from the habenaro peppers.

The only problem I had with the Ed & Patti’s Salsas, is that I  opened them to try a sample of each when I first got them in. Then I refrigerated them for a couple of days, then I took them out to take photos of the labels. As they warmed to room temperature, the bottles sweated a bit here in the Georgia humidity, and that little bit of moisture caused the ink on the labels on all three bottles to run and fade, as can be seen in the photo. These are simple wrap around paper labels which might work better if they were professionally printed.

You can purchase these excellent Salsas online at    http://ed-pattis-salsa.com/
You will also find a few recipes on the site, Including Patti’s Spicy Stuffed Bell Peppers & Patti’s Hot and Spicy Pineapple Fritters.

Overall, these are three very nice Salsas, that I can happily recommend.

Best Regards
John Z