My mom’s tip to canning anything in jars, is to place the jars in a cookie sheet, before filling. that way if you have any spills you didn’t get it all over your counter or worktop. Works like a charm! Canning is never a fiasco in our house anymore😅 loving this channel! Especially in time for the holidays… 👌
I love to chop my peppers instead of slice them, and then use it like relish on hamburgers/hot dogs. For any extra syrup, it's great to add into potato salad or glaze meats while you grill them. I also add the cowboy candy into my homemade salsa to bring the spice level up a notch. This stuff is SO DELICIOUS!!
Thanks for this video Jess! I love this stuff and I use it in so many different ways! I'm one of those who prefer to process them in diced form because I can get more into each jar. I still make a lot as the peppers are available, but overall, I think I use less jars and no chance some might get pushed to the back & forgotten. That would break my heart! I also save any of the syrup & can that up too. Some in small jars to put over a baked ham, etc, but sometimes a larger jar or two, so if I get a deal on peppers (off season) I can do up some more cowboy candy in a smaller batch. Happy canning everyone! God bless.
Wow! Thanks to the 385 comments, I now have 70 ways I'd like to try using my Cowboy Candy, or the left-over Cowboy Candy brine! LOL! Thank you for the video Jess, and the fantastic suggestions in the comments everyone!
We're ramping up our gardening attempts and have come to the stage we feel led to learn preservation. The Lord is so timely and beautifully good to raise up people to teach his people to utilize the land he's led us to and blessed us with the desire for good stewardship. I made my first batches of apple butter this year and had a successful attempt of canning. It was so exciting to feel the joy and humor from the Holy Spirit as I fumbled my way through canning with extremely limited supplies. He kept reminding me that our ancestors didn't have all of the fancy kitchen utensils and eased me into trusting the process. I thought I would come away from the experience completely embarrassed and discouraged, and pouted that I don't even know how to make homemade bread to really enjoy my apple butter, the way my grandma served it to us. Out of nowhere, I got the idea to add the fresh hot apple butter from the pot onto vanilla ice cream. And the next day, to bake chicken in my apple butter. I worried I would be stuck with all this excess product, but I am so tickled to share that God created us with these taste buds and he knows us infinitely better than we know ourselves. He's taught me to rise above the 'don't have' or 'can't' mentality and replaced it with a willingness and eagerness to try it anyway. He walked me through a batch offried cabbage and summer squash, as I was standing at the stove with a heap of cabbage ribbons in a frying pan, clueless how to make it palatable. This was the conversation from his side, "Butter. Oh- Since you're in the fridge, grab your squash and throw in some hands full to your pan. Add some garlic salt... now some pepper." When I had my first delicious forkful, I felt the excitement from him and saw in my mind a man's face from the nose down with a happily proud smile, and then heard, "This is how you praise me with food." Because he led me through, what I would term the bare minimum extremes (I had a chili pot, 28 pounds of apples and a new box of jelly jars), it gave me the confidence to know that if I grow it, He will be faithful to lead me how to eat it. WHAT A LOVING FATHER WE SERVE!! Your new channel, Jess. He's so beautiful and worthy of our praise. Teaching his followers ways to praise him with food. Thank you.
Your testimony is uplifting and I at 75 years old can remember how I felt at 18 years old and a new bride trying to figure out how to cook new dishes. You’re doing great. Praise God!
Since I've never had this I'm not totally sure on the taste profile of the left over brine, but I know you dehydrate you own tomatoes, as I do. So I'm thinking that you can powder the tomatoes and use this brine to make your own paste, and from there your own BBQ sauce. Grate in Lemon zest, since you already have the sweet and the acid. From there you can add in whatever else you like to build the profile that suits. Also, edited to add that if you wanted to make a quick picked cabbage, or radishes as a side dish for left over cuts of meat... if I could have the sugar, I'd be giving that a go!
So happy you started this channel! I’ve been following you on Roots and Refuge for years and your cooking videos, however infrequent, had always been among my favourites. Excited to see what the future holds for you, your family and both your channels!
I have used the leftover syrup and did some baby carrots and it was delicious. If I have syrup left over, I can spoon it over some scrambled eggs, water it for later, or stick some boiled eggs into it to pickle.
I was going to do eggs this year. In the middle of doing so, my kids asked me to pour them a glass of milk, and I started pouring the milk in the broth! 🤦♀️🤣 I was pretty upset with myself.
This year was my first time canning cowboy candy. We love it. With the leftover syrup, I pour it over a whole chicken, I left it marinate for 12 hours and smoke it at 200 degrees until it read 165. We couldn't even tell we were eating chicken breast bc it was so tender.
Love your red and green jalapenos. I've only ever found green here. My cowboy candy is made Hawaiian style by adding pineapple tidbits and I love the pineapple so much. We put our cowboy candy on pizzas as well as on a cracker with cream cheese. a neat small gift is a jar of C.C., a package of cream cheese, and a package of crackers.
I can see why you were inspired to make this channel. So much of life starts and ends in the kitchen when living a rural life. This, being very hands on for you, is a great outlet of creativity just for you. Your joy in sharing is so evident. ☺ I could see this stuff ground up and used as a sweet and spicy relish. It probably would taste amazing on a burger. I think I would also use it in a stir fry. Even the left over syrup could be reduced a little and used in stir fries. 🤔 I wonder if you could food process up the peppers and cook it that way before canning. Either way would probably work. Might be a little spicier that way though. Once, I was so inundated with cucumbers that I ground them up and put them in the dill pickle brine and just canned it all together. It has become our go to dill pickle relish forever more. I always keep a Hilroy spiral notebook in the kitchen. That way, if one of my whimsies actually turns out great, I can jot down all I did and then add notes of improvement etc. Eventually it goes on a recipe card if it's a keeper. 😁 I am also wondering what would happen if I plucked some of the pepper rings out and dehydrated them. Maybe make the syrup a little thicker. Ooooo, might turn out like a spicy sweet candy peel. 😃
Ha! My last pepper haul before the frost, I turned all of them into candy. Hot cherry pepper candy. Habanero candy. Jalapeño candy. Blue Mexican pepper candy. And a hot pepper mix (tobasco & cayenne) candy. And IMO cane sugar is like adding the premium touch to the syrup. Thank you for sharing and helping others understand that recipes can be switched up to please the eater.
The infamous cowboy candy recipe! I'm loving this channel just as much as R&R. What an awesome way to help people understand things and take advantage of their waiting room.
You could freeze the leftover syrup in ice cubes to use for flavor blast in other recipes; Jess I love this channel and have been following you since your old farm in Arkansas you have turned the waiting room into a classroom and you are inspiring to all thank you for sharing your life adventures with us ❤
I usually can the syrup or put in the fridge if I'm going to use it the same week. I use the syrup as a marinate for meats in the future. It's delicious! We use cowboy candy on top of burgers, in chili, tacos, burritos and all types of dishes.
Gift baskets are my favorite thing to give during the holidays! And you can cater to specific peoples likes in each basket! I didn't can anything this year, as I am still a beginner in gardening and only produced enough to eat fresh and freeze a little bit. Next year, though ... I plan to have the most fruitful garden to date and I WILL be making cowboy candy!
I've never done this but as you were talking about the left over syrup all I could think about was putting hardboiled eggs in it! It just sounds like it would be amazing!
I need a good sandwich bread recipe. 😊. I’ve been binge watching Jess and she has inspired me to feed my family real food. And cut out processed food, where I can at this season of my life.
I love this recipe! I usually can a whole bunch of peppers for the holidays and gift them to friends and family. I save the extra syrup and use it in marinades, add it to sauces and add some to my chili for a nice kick.
Perfect timing for my household. I was recently gifted a healthy jalapeno plant. Not being a heat person I was unable to use all the lovely red and green peppers it produced. I'm going to try and overwinter it and hopefully next year I can make this for the men in our family. They love the heat!! I imagine your kitchen smells absolutely delicious while making this. I also imagine everyone has open sinus passages tonight. I'd be interested in using the leftover juice as a kitchen potpourri during allergy season if I'm right.
I always just can up the extra brine and then it is sealed and I can use it whenever I need it. The other thing I've done is boiled eggs and then poured the cowboy candy brine for the boiled eggs and let it sit in the refrigerator a couple weeks they were delicious in the cowboy candy brine! I highly recommend that 😍
We made BBQ sauce this year with the leftover liquid. Game changer!! Found recipe on Pinterest under Liquid Gold BBQ sauce!! Love this new channel Jess!! Thank you for all you do. You are the reason I started gardening again 3 years ago!! Now it’s my life!! 💕
We love this! We do the cream cheese, have them on sandwiches . I toss them on my chili, or add to taco’s/burritos. I can the left over syrup in 4 oz jars and have mixed it in meatloaf, also will have as added syrup to add on chili everyone can add what they want. Never just dumped in chili, though I would love it. Some in family don’t do the spice.
Thank you for sharing your recipe. You can canned the left over syrup just like you would can the peppers. Open it when your ready to baste a pork tenderloin... it's so good.
Loving this second channel! I've noticed you look like you are feeling much better. Your complexion is glowing and you have a little spark that you didn't have when you were feeling unwell. God bless! Thanks for all that you share!
Thank you Jess, you just save me a bunch of time trying to find a recipe I have a bucket full of jalapeno peppers that I need to do something with now.
I am so excited about your new channel! I have been watching your gardening channel, and have often wondered how you use your harvest. Did I tell how excited I am about your new channel? Lol!
I made my very first batch of cowboy candy with honey. The base conversion is 1 cup sugar = 3/4 cup honey. For your recipe I would use 3 cups honey. Bring to a low simmer to not burn the honey. You can change the flavor of the cowboy candy by using different honey flavors. I had orange honey from a friend who has an orange orchard and it was amazing!! Also had some blackberry honey and it’s a totally different flavor combination!!
Jess, I used my leftover cowboy candy syrup to make a batch of Carolina Gold BBQ sauce! It has mustard base, I had never even had that before but I just kind of threw stuff in and then realized it was a great BBQ sauce. Googled the ingredients and realized that’s what I had made! 🤣🤣 I glazed chicken with it and cooked on the blackstone! Got rave reviews! Then I canned the rest for later.
I make this as well. I made 10 half pints in August and it's gone already! After the cowboy candy, the liquid gold BBQ sauce is my next most requested canning item!
You can mitigate some of the hot by straining seeds from just the syrup as you top up the jars. I like the technique of using the slotted spoon to fill the jars with peppers and then adding the syrup. It seems like a better fill.
I have never made Cowboy Candy but it is on my list. I tried to grow jalapeños but something eat on my plants. I ended up with 6 peppers😢. The recipe sounds great. It looks great. I am so glad you started this channel. THANK YOU!
Am definitely making this with my peppers. Hoping it is ok to use my frozen peppers for this seen as how they will be cooked anyway. Thank you ever so much for a Christmas gift for my kids. Am so excited. ❤️
Jess, when I’m watching your videos I feel like I’m just sitting there in your kitchen with a cup of tea and you’re talking me through a recipe. Love that about you on this channel or your other one. I’m all caught up on your videos on this channel. Can’t wait for more! Have a blessed day and a great one!
Cowboy Candy is a favorite of ours too! We use it on nachos, tacos, sandwiches, in rice bowls, on pizza, over cream cheese as a dip... the possibilities are endless!
I bet that leftover syrup would be a great added to Caldo de Queso. It's a super simple potato and cheese soup, with a chicken stock flavored with roasted green chilies (hatch, most commonly). I would omit any chilies until you know how much heat that syrup will impart, but this is a GREAT winter soup. The mellow heat warms you right up.
I’m from uk, never heard of this before, got loads of of chills this year, so made this as you did, my family love it so much so I’ve made another batch, thank you for sharing, this shall be something I will always make now. Love watching you, thankyou ❤
Meg hollar put hard boiled eggs in the cowboy candy juce to make pickled egg and love it very much. She was all excited to share that in a previous vlog. Plesae share your experience if you try it, I'm curious to have your feedback ! Great recipe. I really like that you tell us what's important and waht we can change. Thank you, please continue make recipes vidéos !
I thought that is who I remembered put eggs in the cowboy candy brine. I want to make the cowboy candy just so I can make the eggs! I'll give the pickled peppers to my kids, except I might mix a little in some egg salad.
I can my leftover brine for later (it gets hotter) or I use it on egg rolls instead of sweet chilli sauce, drizzle it on rice, Taco bowls, pulled pork sandwiches, but one of my faves is to put it in either store bought or home made BBQ sauce. It just does a lil somthin for it. ❤
Thank you for your comment. I make black beans with sweet chili sauce for our tacos. I’ve been wondering if I could use a cowboy candy recipe in place of sweet chili sauce. I froze my peppers this year to make cowboy candy but have been too afraid to try it. I’m going to give it a try now. Again thank you.
Jess…here in NC my friends I have gifted this to say it’s great on hotdogs, in potato salad, deviled eggs, tuna salad, chicken salad, basically anywhere you use relish. I don’t slice my peppers I run them through the food processor for a relish consistency. I also cook down the syrup,can it, and use it on chopped pork,and as a sauce for grilled chicken and pork tenderloin YUM! My favorite way to eat it is with cream cheese and crackers!❤❤
Ive heard about cowboy candy from Meg Holler and yourself but wasn't quite sure what it was until now, it is very similar to the chilli jam I make in the UK the only difference is we would cut everything up much smaller, definitely growing chilli's next year, love this channel
You could use the leftover juice for Italian beef_roast beef sandwiches, put it in taco meat.. I wonder how it would do as a marinade for wings? Many possibilities are popping into my head. Thank you for taking so much of your time to help people & share your knowledge. It is very appreciated.
Made cowboy candy last night while watching/listening to the 1st few episodes of this channel. Le sigh, 24 hours early. I'll archive this one for next year ❤❤❤❤🤠🤠🤠🍬🍬🍬🍬
I've seen alot of homesteaders can the left over juice from the candie and just used it the next time then made cowboy candie.. thanks for sharing wirh us..
With the extra syrup, do a quick refrigerator pickle with: onions, carrot sticks, cauliflower, mushrooms, shredded cabbage, broccoli stalks, fennel bulbs, and any mixture of the above. The cowboy candy syrup soaked fennel bulbs shredded with mozzarella and scrabled eggs (sausage?) for a breakfast burrito! Any shredded veg soaked in the syrup served with shredded meat and rice or similar grain. Mushrooms in a soup!
I love Cowboy Candy. I'm in NZ and so we're in spring at the moment. Last year I only had 2 jalapeno plants. Then I tried CC to preserve some of my last crop, loved it and this year I'm growing 8 jalapeno plants just to make CC 🤣I'm going to try this recipe because all those extra spices sound great. Thanks for sharing :)
We are making cowboy candy and fermented hot sauce this week to use up the rest of our peppers. I love that with the different peppers we use they make the perfect Christmas gifts!
I use the syrup for chicken wings in the air fryer! Marinate them for a few hours before and reserve a little extra syrup to tops them in after. Sooo good! 😋
I made cowboy candy for the first time this summer. So good! I see why everyone raves about it. Going to be growing lots of jalapenos next year in my garden just for this recipe.
I just made some of these with your recipe. The only thing I changed was 31/2 cups of white sugar and a 1/2 cup brown sugar. Your recipe is one of the better recipes . Thanks for sharing.
I can the left over syrup. I intentionally make plenty of ayrup. I use it for marinades, to dial up mayo for a sauce, a simple delicious jerky marinade, to cook chicken in.... I canned garlic gloves in it one year. Shredded zucchini another. So good. I also chop my peppers vs slice... I get more peppers in the jar. One year i chopped up half zucchini and tossed it right in with the peppers.... Couldn't even tell... Stretched the peppers.
Hey Jess, no use in making it with honey. Once you can it, the heat destroys all the good stuff in your honey anyways. Save your good honey for cold or just warmed stuff. My husband puts it in his tea, but he uses a thermometer to make sure it’s cooled enough before adding the honey. We have 5 hives so he’s particular🐝🐝🐝
I like to mix my cowboy candy with cream cheese and corn then bake in the oven until warm. Serve with tortilla chips!
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Yummmmmm!!!
I make cowboy candy and I’m at a loss at what to do with it. Your recipe sounds amazing!! Thank you!
YUMMY! I’m definitely going to try that! 😊
I’ve never thought of adding corn! I love this!
One of our favorite ways to use Cowboy Candy is to mix it into our cornbread batter.
That sounds so good!
I do that, too!!
@@dawncatalano7443 It's delightful!
Yep here too! It’s amazing!!!
Yummmm that sounds AMAZING! ❤
My mom’s tip to canning anything in jars, is to place the jars in a cookie sheet, before filling. that way if you have any spills you didn’t get it all over your counter or worktop. Works like a charm! Canning is never a fiasco in our house anymore😅 loving this channel! Especially in time for the holidays… 👌
I put the jars on a circular tray and you can just swivel the tray around to bring the next empty jar close to the pot for ladling.
Also on team sheet pan. I also use that method for other baking, cooking, grilling projects to minimize counter clean up.
I'd rather wipe off the counter then wash a cookie sheet 🤷♀️
I love to chop my peppers instead of slice them, and then use it like relish on hamburgers/hot dogs. For any extra syrup, it's great to add into potato salad or glaze meats while you grill them. I also add the cowboy candy into my homemade salsa to bring the spice level up a notch. This stuff is SO DELICIOUS!!
Me too, I find it easier to use in the relish form !
I've done all the above too. Love it as a brine and basting liquid.
We like to add jalapeno relish to deviled eggs. I have made the Cowboy Candy (sliced) before however I think I will try chopping them this time.
Thanks for this video Jess! I love this stuff and I use it in so many different ways!
I'm one of those who prefer to process them in diced form because I can get more into each jar. I still make a lot as the peppers are available, but overall, I think I use less jars and no chance some might get pushed to the back & forgotten. That would break my heart! I also save any of the syrup & can that up too. Some in small jars to put over a baked ham, etc, but sometimes a larger jar or two, so if I get a deal on peppers (off season) I can do up some more cowboy candy in a smaller batch. Happy canning everyone! God bless.
@@kimlittleton4943Me too! Just pulsing in the food processor vs slicing them will save some time too
Wow! Thanks to the 385 comments, I now have 70 ways I'd like to try using my Cowboy Candy, or the left-over Cowboy Candy brine! LOL! Thank you for the video Jess, and the fantastic suggestions in the comments everyone!
The comments section is always a goldmine😂❤🎉
I was thinking the same thing! ❤🦩🌺
I always make extra juice and can it. It’s wonderful mixed with jam and white wine onions and poured over a pork roast and cooked in the crockpot. ❤️
Good idea if you have some bland jam :)
We're ramping up our gardening attempts and have come to the stage we feel led to learn preservation. The Lord is so timely and beautifully good to raise up people to teach his people to utilize the land he's led us to and blessed us with the desire for good stewardship. I made my first batches of apple butter this year and had a successful attempt of canning. It was so exciting to feel the joy and humor from the Holy Spirit as I fumbled my way through canning with extremely limited supplies. He kept reminding me that our ancestors didn't have all of the fancy kitchen utensils and eased me into trusting the process. I thought I would come away from the experience completely embarrassed and discouraged, and pouted that I don't even know how to make homemade bread to really enjoy my apple butter, the way my grandma served it to us. Out of nowhere, I got the idea to add the fresh hot apple butter from the pot onto vanilla ice cream. And the next day, to bake chicken in my apple butter. I worried I would be stuck with all this excess product, but I am so tickled to share that God created us with these taste buds and he knows us infinitely better than we know ourselves. He's taught me to rise above the 'don't have' or 'can't' mentality and replaced it with a willingness and eagerness to try it anyway. He walked me through a batch offried cabbage and summer squash, as I was standing at the stove with a heap of cabbage ribbons in a frying pan, clueless how to make it palatable. This was the conversation from his side, "Butter. Oh- Since you're in the fridge, grab your squash and throw in some hands full to your pan. Add some garlic salt... now some pepper." When I had my first delicious forkful, I felt the excitement from him and saw in my mind a man's face from the nose down with a happily proud smile, and then heard, "This is how you praise me with food." Because he led me through, what I would term the bare minimum extremes (I had a chili pot, 28 pounds of apples and a new box of jelly jars), it gave me the confidence to know that if I grow it, He will be faithful to lead me how to eat it. WHAT A LOVING FATHER WE SERVE!! Your new channel, Jess. He's so beautiful and worthy of our praise. Teaching his followers ways to praise him with food. Thank you.
Your testimony is uplifting and I at 75 years old can remember how I felt at 18 years old and a new bride trying to figure out how to cook new dishes. You’re doing great. Praise God!
I can't tell you how excited I am about these videos
Since I've never had this I'm not totally sure on the taste profile of the left over brine, but I know you dehydrate you own tomatoes, as I do. So I'm thinking that you can powder the tomatoes and use this brine to make your own paste, and from there your own BBQ sauce. Grate in Lemon zest, since you already have the sweet and the acid. From there you can add in whatever else you like to build the profile that suits. Also, edited to add that if you wanted to make a quick picked cabbage, or radishes as a side dish for left over cuts of meat... if I could have the sugar, I'd be giving that a go!
That's a fantastic idea!!
Try using the leftover pepper brine to tenderize meat such as beef or chicken. Adds for a great flavour profile
Also you can use leftover brine to make zucchini relish. I add a lot more salt to balance the flavor 😋
So happy you started this channel! I’ve been following you on Roots and Refuge for years and your cooking videos, however infrequent, had always been among my favourites. Excited to see what the future holds for you, your family and both your channels!
I have used the leftover syrup and did some baby carrots and it was delicious. If I have syrup left over, I can spoon it over some scrambled eggs, water it for later, or stick some boiled eggs into it to pickle.
I was going to do eggs this year. In the middle of doing so, my kids asked me to pour them a glass of milk, and I started pouring the milk in the broth! 🤦♀️🤣 I was pretty upset with myself.
I did the same thing with baby carrots. It's delish. I also use extra syrup over roasted vegies- broccoli is a favorite for us.
I’m going to try the eggs!
This year was my first time canning cowboy candy. We love it. With the leftover syrup, I pour it over a whole chicken, I left it marinate for 12 hours and smoke it at 200 degrees until it read 165. We couldn't even tell we were eating chicken breast bc it was so tender.
I can tell this channel is going to be SOOOO much fun… love ya Jess ❤
Absolutely!!!
Hamburgers, sausage dogs, and recently smoked salmon with cream cheese and cowboy candy. ALL DELISH!
Love your red and green jalapenos. I've only ever found green here. My cowboy candy is made Hawaiian style by adding pineapple tidbits and I love the pineapple so much. We put our cowboy candy on pizzas as well as on a cracker with cream cheese. a neat small gift is a jar of C.C., a package of cream cheese, and a package of crackers.
Green jalapenos left longer on the plant will turn red. You should grow your own. They are pretty easy to grow :-)
I can see why you were inspired to make this channel. So much of life starts and ends in the kitchen when living a rural life. This, being very hands on for you, is a great outlet of creativity just for you. Your joy in sharing is so evident. ☺
I could see this stuff ground up and used as a sweet and spicy relish. It probably would taste amazing on a burger. I think I would also use it in a stir fry. Even the left over syrup could be reduced a little and used in stir fries. 🤔 I wonder if you could food process up the peppers and cook it that way before canning. Either way would probably work. Might be a little spicier that way though.
Once, I was so inundated with cucumbers that I ground them up and put them in the dill pickle brine and just canned it all together. It has become our go to dill pickle relish forever more.
I always keep a Hilroy spiral notebook in the kitchen. That way, if one of my whimsies actually turns out great, I can jot down all I did and then add notes of improvement etc. Eventually it goes on a recipe card if it's a keeper. 😁
I am also wondering what would happen if I plucked some of the pepper rings out and dehydrated them. Maybe make the syrup a little thicker. Ooooo, might turn out like a spicy sweet candy peel. 😃
😮 yes, spicy sweet pepper gummies! ❤
@angelad ... You are so creative!
Ha! My last pepper haul before the frost, I turned all of them into candy. Hot cherry pepper candy. Habanero candy. Jalapeño candy. Blue Mexican pepper candy. And a hot pepper mix (tobasco & cayenne) candy. And IMO cane sugar is like adding the premium touch to the syrup. Thank you for sharing and helping others understand that recipes can be switched up to please the eater.
The infamous cowboy candy recipe! I'm loving this channel just as much as R&R. What an awesome way to help people understand things and take advantage of their waiting room.
The leftover vinegar mix would make a lovely salad dressing base, or mix with mayonnaise for a spicy sweet coleslaw 😋
I like your idea of adding the leftover juice/brine to a coleslaw.
@@debbiemiksch7276into coleslaw for your pulled pork!
You could freeze the leftover syrup in ice cubes to use for flavor blast in other recipes; Jess I love this channel and have been following you since your old farm in Arkansas you have turned the waiting room into a classroom and you are inspiring to all thank you for sharing your life adventures with us ❤
Fun fact a 5 qt dutch oven completely full of raw peppers and syrup makes 10 half pints. Also save that left over syrup and make BBQ sauce with it
Jess, I am so thrilled by this new channel, thanks for telling us about it on your R &R channel, it didn’t come up in suggestions, which surprised me.
I usually can the syrup or put in the fridge if I'm going to use it the same week. I use the syrup as a marinate for meats in the future. It's delicious!
We use cowboy candy on top of burgers, in chili, tacos, burritos and all types of dishes.
I run my jalapenos through the food processor when I make cowboy candy and use the diced jalapenos on tacos or mixed in my taco dip. So good
Did you use the slicing blade, S blade, or shredding blade (small or large hole)? Thank you!
I've used my leftover cowboy candy brine and made a small batch of pickled eggs with it. Dont knock it til you try it. It was so good!
Gift baskets are my favorite thing to give during the holidays! And you can cater to specific peoples likes in each basket! I didn't can anything this year, as I am still a beginner in gardening and only produced enough to eat fresh and freeze a little bit. Next year, though ... I plan to have the most fruitful garden to date and I WILL be making cowboy candy!
I've never done this but as you were talking about the left over syrup all I could think about was putting hardboiled eggs in it! It just sounds like it would be amazing!
Jess, I'm so glad you started this channel too. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Cowboy candy is super tasty with goat cheese too!
Discovered cowboy candy a few years ago and now I make sure I’m never without. It’s THE best on tacos.
I need a good sandwich bread recipe. 😊. I’ve been binge watching Jess and she has inspired me to feed my family real food. And cut out processed food, where I can at this season of my life.
I love this recipe! I usually can a whole bunch of peppers for the holidays and gift them to friends and family. I save the extra syrup and use it in marinades, add it to sauces and add some to my chili for a nice kick.
Wontons…..a little bit of cream cheese, raspberry jam and cowboy candy tucked in a wonton wrap and fried…..oh my, you can’t stop eating them !!!!
Perfect timing for my household. I was recently gifted a healthy jalapeno plant. Not being a heat person I was unable to use all the lovely red and green peppers it produced. I'm going to try and overwinter it and hopefully next year I can make this for the men in our family. They love the heat!! I imagine your kitchen smells absolutely delicious while making this. I also imagine everyone has open sinus passages tonight. I'd be interested in using the leftover juice as a kitchen potpourri during allergy season if I'm right.
I always just can up the extra brine and then it is sealed and I can use it whenever I need it. The other thing I've done is boiled eggs and then poured the cowboy candy brine for the boiled eggs and let it sit in the refrigerator a couple weeks they were delicious in the cowboy candy brine! I highly recommend that 😍
This!!!
We made BBQ sauce this year with the leftover liquid. Game changer!! Found recipe on Pinterest under Liquid Gold BBQ sauce!! Love this new channel Jess!! Thank you for all you do. You are the reason I started gardening again 3 years ago!! Now it’s my life!! 💕
We love this! We do the cream cheese, have them on sandwiches . I toss them on my chili, or add to taco’s/burritos. I can the left over syrup in 4 oz jars and have mixed it in meatloaf, also will have as added syrup to add on chili everyone can add what they want. Never just dumped in chili, though I would love it. Some in family don’t do the spice.
I really like it on burgers with peanutbutter and bacon...it sounds weird but the flavors all work so well together.
That sounds delicious! I loved peanut butter on burgers and hot dogs with maple bourbon pickles, so they would be great with cowboy candy!!!
"If you're not new here", oh Jess, we're all new here! Love this video, thank you so much :D
Just in time as I was going to whip up a batch for the first time! 😊 Thanks for the info!
I made it for the first time ever this year but with hot peppers. It was the most delicious thing I’ve ever made!
Thank you for sharing your recipe.
You can canned the left over syrup just like you would can the peppers.
Open it when your ready to baste a pork tenderloin... it's so good.
Loving this second channel! I've noticed you look like you are feeling much better. Your complexion is glowing and you have a little spark that you didn't have when you were feeling unwell. God bless! Thanks for all that you share!
Thank you Jess, you just save me a bunch of time trying to find a recipe I have a bucket full of jalapeno peppers that I need to do something with now.
I am so excited about your new channel! I have been watching your gardening channel, and have often wondered how you use your harvest. Did I tell how excited I am about your new channel? Lol!
I’m loving this new channel! Thank you Jess for all that you do.!
I made my very first batch of cowboy candy with honey. The base conversion is 1 cup sugar = 3/4 cup honey. For your recipe I would use 3 cups honey. Bring to a low simmer to not burn the honey. You can change the flavor of the cowboy candy by using different honey flavors. I had orange honey from a friend who has an orange orchard and it was amazing!! Also had some blackberry honey and it’s a totally different flavor combination!!
Jess, I used my leftover cowboy candy syrup to make a batch of Carolina Gold BBQ sauce! It has mustard base, I had never even had that before but I just kind of threw stuff in and then realized it was a great BBQ sauce. Googled the ingredients and realized that’s what I had made! 🤣🤣 I glazed chicken with it and cooked on the blackstone! Got rave reviews! Then I canned the rest for later.
I make this as well. I made 10 half pints in August and it's gone already! After the cowboy candy, the liquid gold BBQ sauce is my next most requested canning item!
Oh my gosh, this is fantastic on hot dogs, hamburgers, nachos, tacos...I can not get enough...starting making it 2 years ago!!
This has been on my list of things to learn to make! Excited to try it!
Made green tomato pickles and had brine left over, marinated venison steaks in it. Oh my goodness! So good.
I love your style of teaching. I know you've wanted to do cooking video's for a long time. Teaching is your gift, I believe. Well done :)
You can mitigate some of the hot by straining seeds from just the syrup as you top up the jars. I like the technique of using the slotted spoon to fill the jars with peppers and then adding the syrup. It seems like a better fill.
Loving this channel. I, being from California, never heard of cowboy candy. It is now on my list to make for this holiday season. Thanks so much Jess!
I make cowboy candy and put it on my homemade bagels with cream cheese. Its delicious 😋
I have been WAITING for your cowboy candy recipe, instructions, and uses!
Yesssss!!!!!🎉❤
I made a batch of pepper jelly. The tumeric made ît darker than usual and the seeds left in there made it look pretty. Tasted amazing.
I put cowboy candy on everything. Pork chops, burgers and even pizza. It's so good.
Hello. The first idea I had for the left over syrup was to use it on "chicken and waffles". Yummy.
I have never made Cowboy Candy but it is on my list. I tried to grow jalapeños but something eat on my plants. I ended up with 6 peppers😢.
The recipe sounds great. It looks great. I am so glad you started this channel. THANK YOU!
Run as fast as you can to a local farmer's market! :)
I used the extra brine to make peanut brittle. It was sooo good!
Helping me fall in love with cooking again. Thank you
Love cowboy candy! I like to put them on burgers.
Oh yes! So good!
I love it with my morning boiled eggs, pinto beans and corn bread and so on. Cowboy candy goes with everything!
Am definitely making this with my peppers. Hoping it is ok to use my frozen peppers for this seen as how they will be cooked anyway. Thank you ever so much for a Christmas gift for my kids. Am so excited. ❤️
I haven’t had cowboy candy but I’ve made jalapeño jelly and mix it half an half with bbq sauce for wings and it’s amazing on smoked/ grilled meats
Jess, when I’m watching your videos I feel like I’m just sitting there in your kitchen with a cup of tea and you’re talking me through a recipe. Love that about you on this channel or your other one. I’m all caught up on your videos on this channel. Can’t wait for more! Have a blessed day and a great one!
Cowboy Candy is a favorite of ours too! We use it on nachos, tacos, sandwiches, in rice bowls, on pizza, over cream cheese as a dip... the possibilities are endless!
Oooh! I had cowboy candy on a hamburger in Austin, Tx. It was amazing! I don’t normally eat hot peppers but the sugar made them sparkle!
I bet that leftover syrup would be a great added to Caldo de Queso. It's a super simple potato and cheese soup, with a chicken stock flavored with roasted green chilies (hatch, most commonly). I would omit any chilies until you know how much heat that syrup will impart, but this is a GREAT winter soup. The mellow heat warms you right up.
Oh, I definitely am going to try this! Thank you 😊
I’m from uk, never heard of this before, got loads of of chills this year, so made this as you did, my family love it so much so I’ve made another batch, thank you for sharing, this shall be something I will always make now. Love watching you, thankyou ❤
Meg hollar put hard boiled eggs in the cowboy candy juce to make pickled egg and love it very much. She was all excited to share that in a previous vlog. Plesae share your experience if you try it, I'm curious to have your feedback !
Great recipe. I really like that you tell us what's important and waht we can change.
Thank you, please continue make recipes vidéos !
I thought that is who I remembered put eggs in the cowboy candy brine. I want to make the cowboy candy just so I can make the eggs! I'll give the pickled peppers to my kids, except I might mix a little in some egg salad.
I can my leftover brine for later (it gets hotter) or I use it on egg rolls instead of sweet chilli sauce, drizzle it on rice, Taco bowls, pulled pork sandwiches, but one of my faves is to put it in either store bought or home made BBQ sauce. It just does a lil somthin for it. ❤
Oh yes! Homemade sweet chili sauce. It's delicious over rice bowls with a Mexican spin.
Thank you for your comment. I make black beans with sweet chili sauce for our tacos. I’ve been wondering if I could use a cowboy candy recipe in place of sweet chili sauce. I froze my peppers this year to make cowboy candy but have been too afraid to try it. I’m going to give it a try now. Again thank you.
Jess…here in NC my friends I have gifted this to say it’s great on hotdogs, in potato salad, deviled eggs, tuna salad, chicken salad, basically anywhere you use relish. I don’t slice my peppers I run them through the food processor for a relish consistency. I also cook down the syrup,can it, and use it on chopped pork,and as a sauce for grilled chicken and pork tenderloin YUM! My favorite way to eat it is with cream cheese and crackers!❤❤
Ive heard about cowboy candy from Meg Holler and yourself but wasn't quite sure what it was until now, it is very similar to the chilli jam I make in the UK the only difference is we would cut everything up much smaller, definitely growing chilli's next year, love this channel
I use the leftover syrup to baste grilled salmon. It just adds that little sweetness and spice to the grilled salmon.
You could use the leftover juice for Italian beef_roast beef sandwiches, put it in taco meat..
I wonder how it would do as a marinade for wings?
Many possibilities are popping into my head.
Thank you for taking so much of your time to help people & share your knowledge. It is very appreciated.
Made cowboy candy last night while watching/listening to the 1st few episodes of this channel. Le sigh, 24 hours early. I'll archive this one for next year ❤❤❤❤🤠🤠🤠🍬🍬🍬🍬
I've seen alot of homesteaders can the left over juice from the candie and just used it the next time then made cowboy candie.. thanks for sharing wirh us..
With the extra syrup, do a quick refrigerator pickle with: onions, carrot sticks, cauliflower, mushrooms, shredded cabbage, broccoli stalks, fennel bulbs, and any mixture of the above.
The cowboy candy syrup soaked fennel bulbs shredded with mozzarella and scrabled eggs (sausage?) for a breakfast burrito! Any shredded veg soaked in the syrup served with shredded meat and rice or similar grain.
Mushrooms in a soup!
I always wondered what Cowboy Candy was, but never looked it up- now I know! It sounds delicious!
What a great idea to use them in dip! I will def be trying this as one of my first water bath projects. Thank you
I love Cowboy Candy. I'm in NZ and so we're in spring at the moment. Last year I only had 2 jalapeno plants. Then I tried CC to preserve some of my last crop, loved it and this year I'm growing 8 jalapeno plants just to make CC 🤣I'm going to try this recipe because all those extra spices sound great. Thanks for sharing :)
I might do the same ;) ❤
We are making cowboy candy and fermented hot sauce this week to use up the rest of our peppers. I love that with the different peppers we use they make the perfect Christmas gifts!
I bake it into an egg bake we used to call chili cheese puff. I think it's so much better with homemade cowboy candy vs canned chilies.
Thank you Jess! This is so much better than my cowboy candy recipe. I just made a batch and put it in some cream cheese and I can’t stop eating it! 😂
I use the syrup for chicken wings in the air fryer! Marinate them for a few hours before and reserve a little extra syrup to tops them in after. Sooo good! 😋
Great tip!
I made cowboy candy for the first time this summer. So good! I see why everyone raves about it. Going to be growing lots of jalapenos next year in my garden just for this recipe.
My hubby’s favorite! Great in cornbread.
Great in chicken and tuna salad. Your videos are awesome
I just made some of these with your recipe. The only thing I changed was 31/2 cups of white sugar and a 1/2 cup brown sugar. Your recipe is one of the better recipes . Thanks for sharing.
I can the left over syrup. I intentionally make plenty of ayrup. I use it for marinades, to dial up mayo for a sauce, a simple delicious jerky marinade, to cook chicken in.... I canned garlic gloves in it one year. Shredded zucchini another. So good.
I also chop my peppers vs slice... I get more peppers in the jar. One year i chopped up half zucchini and tossed it right in with the peppers.... Couldn't even tell... Stretched the peppers.
We use them on our burgers as a condiment! Super delicious 😋
I made this for the first time this summer, and it is SO GOOD!!!!! For sure, making it next year and canning more!
Hey Jess, no use in making it with honey. Once you can it, the heat destroys all the good stuff in your honey anyways. Save your good honey for cold or just warmed stuff. My husband puts it in his tea, but he uses a thermometer to make sure it’s cooled enough before adding the honey. We have 5 hives so he’s particular🐝🐝🐝
I added carrots and okra just because I had them and I use whatever peppers I have on hand. Love how versatile this recipe is!
American culture is so underrated ❤
I’ve never made cowboy candy but from what I can tell the brine would be really good for refrigerator pickles.
I'm really enjoying your new channel! It's like having company in the kitchen even when I'm not making the same thing! Thank you!
Yum! Looks great! Any other holiday ideas? I really enjoy your honey caramel corn recipe too.
I’m going to focus on some thanksgiving recipes this week and then I’ll start on more gifting recipes and sweets
@@The_Farmers_Table thanks for your generous spirit.