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Seasonings, Spices, Rubs & Mixes
Seasonings are any combination of spices, condiments and dried or fresh herbs whose addition improves the flavor of food. Rubs are seasonings thoroughly rubbed —duh! — into meat.
Unlike many marinades which may actually contain ingredients that begin the cooking process, most rubs don't chemically interact with meat; instead they bind with the meat by pulling some of the juices towards the surface so that when the food is grilled, the searing effect creates a crust. Consequently, rubs add a stronger flavor than marinades.
Slap Ya Mama
From Evangeline Parish in central Louisiana — home to the Mamou Cajun Music Festival, the Louisiana Swine Festival and Le Festival de la Viande Boucanee (or Smoked Meat Festival) comes this classic Cajun seasoning. It goes with everything. Use it as a rub on steak, brisket or ribs. Add a zing to scrambled eggs, salads and casseroles. Some people even mix it with beer!
Ingredients in the "Original" and "Hot" blends include salt, red pepper, black pepper, garlic & other spices. The "White Pepper" variety substitutes white for black pepper. White pepper is the secret ingredient in Cajun cooking — its heat comes in after you've had a chance to savor other flavors. Additionally, it does not irritate the GI tract the way black pepper sometimes may.
Slap Ya Mama - Original $7.00
Slap Ya Mama - Hot $7.00
Slap Ya Mama - White Pepper $7.00
Slap Ya Mama Gift Set $22.00
Slap Your Mama Apron $21.00
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Bad Byron's Butt Rub
$7.50
Aw, c'mon. Everyone likes a little butt rub every now and then.
This one has won more professional barbecue prizes than you can count, including the Florida State championship, the Kentucky State championship and the much-coveted Tennessee State championship (sponsored by Wild Turkey!) In 2003 it took first place at the Fiery Food Challenge, sponsored by Chile Pepper Magazine. And, yes, you did see it on the Food Network.
Ingredients include salt, black pepper, granulated onion, granulated garlic, paprika and chipotle powder.
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Char Crust: Garlic Peppercorn
$7.25
One of the reasons we tend to veer away from most commercial rubs is that even when their flavor is good, they tend to dry meat out.
Char Crust is an exception to that rule. Created by Al Farber's Steakhouse in Chicago's Belden Stratford Hotel in the 1950's, this rub with its overtones of garlic, onions and Worcestershire and the snap of freshly cracked peppercorns, is the perfect enhancement to a thick, juicy steak. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients include processed wheat, salt, roasted garlic, sugar, spices, onion, caramel color, Worcestershire powder, paprika, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein.
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Char Crust: Hickory
$7.25
This original secret blend that creates a delicious charred crust on the outside and pink, juicy meat on the outside. Use it under your broiler, on the grill, or even on a rotisserie for hickory-charred look and taste. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients include processed wheat, salt, sugar, spices, caramel color, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein, paprika, mustard & natural hickory smoke flavor.
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Char Crust: Hickory & Molasses
$7.25
The original recipe with the added taste of molasses. Not too sweet though. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients include processed wheat, salt, dry molasses powder, spices, caramel color, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein, paprika, mustard & natural hickory smoke flavor.
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Char Crust: Amazin' Cajun
$7.25
A jazzy blend of piquant cayenne pepper, onion, garlic, oregano, and other Mardi Gras flavors. Really good on chicken wings, as well as catfish and shrimp. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients include rocessed wheat, cayenne & red chile pepper, salt, garlic, onion, sugar, spices, celery, Worcestershire sauce powder, mustard, paprika, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein & natural smoke flavor.
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Char Crust: Ginger Teriyaki
$7.25
Sweet teriyaki and fragrant ginger -- the flavor signatures of the orient -- make beautiful harmony in this gently spicy seasoning that's perfect for shrimp, fish and chicken. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients include sugar, processed wheat, salt, garlic, ginger, soy sauce powder, caramel color, orange peel, spices, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein, Wasabi, onion, paprika, mustard & natural smoke flavor.
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Char Crust: Spicy Southwest
$7.25
A blend of real ancho and chipotle chiles from Santa Fe mixed with cilantro and other authentic southwest spices, perfect for pork, chicken, shrimp and beef, or any dish -- tacos anyone? -- that contains them. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredeints include processed wheat, salt, sugar, chili peppers, spices, onion, garlic, cilantro, caramel color, natural mesquite smoke flavor, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein & paprika.
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Char Crust: Sun-Dried Tomato & Garlic
$7.25
Can you package Tuscan sunshine? The makers of Char Crust have sure tried. Sun-dried tomatoes, roasted garlic, rosemary, and just a hint of lemon. Excellent on chicken and fish, but out of this world on roasted vegetables. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients iunclude processed wheat, salt, garlic, sugar, tomato powder, onion, paprika, spices, caramel color, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein, lemon juice powder, red chile powder and sun-dried tomato bits.
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Char Crust: Roto Roast
$7.25
A one-step, all-purpose roasting rub brings the warm taste of European farmhouse cooking into your home. Fifteen herbs and spices including Spanish paprika, French rosemary and Italian basil create a light golden crust that gives juicy, slow-roasted flavor to everything that's cooked with it. Particularly outstanding on prime rib. Four oz or 32 portion servings. Ingredients include salt, dextrose, processed wheat, paprika, spices, hydrolyzed soy & corn protein.
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Char Crust: All American Barbecue
$7.25
All the regional American barbecue flavors you love! The rich molasses flavors of Memphis style bbq blended together with tangy tomato (Kansas City style), a dash of mustard and vinegar (Carolina style) and a hint of smoke (Texas!) to make an all-American barbecue taste. Twenty-five cents from each package sold is donated to the American Lung Association. Four oz or 32 portion servings.
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Char Crust Variety Pack (Set of Nine)
$45.00
One 4 oz package of each flavor or nine packages in all, attractively packaged -- a twenty dollar savings! See individual Char Crust product descriptions for ingredients.
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Cajun Foreplay
$6.50
You gotta rub that brisket the right way if you want it to be nice to you. Show it that you care. Make it quiver. Make it want to be barbecued. It needs some Cajun Foreplay. From the fine folk at the Dinosaur Barbecue. 5.5 oz. Ingredients include salt, garlic, paprika, onions, black pepper, roasted chilies, cayenne pepper, sugar and other exotic dinosaur spices.
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Captain Thom's Chile Pepper Salt
$6.00
Captain Thom has this to say about the chile pepper salt that took second place in the condiments category at the 2003 Fiery Foods Challenge: While wreck fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the crew and I caught some large yellowtail snapper. On the way back to town we decided to grill the fish over a wood fire, but what to spice the fish with? So, we went to the open air market in the small Mexican town in which we were staying and put together the chilies and spices with sea salt that are blended in this container. The crew went loco for the flavor and began to use it on everything -- eggs, potatoes, popcorn, etc. We know you will too!
7 oz. Ingredients include sea salt, chipotle pepper, ancho pepper, cumin, garlic, and habanero pepper.
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Bear Claw Herb Spice
$6.50
Bear Claw Herb Spice is perfect for use on little pigs (pork roasts or chops), kids (we're talking goats, silly), lamb, or any bird you flip. Serving Suggestion: Rub olive oil on the critter of your choice and sprinkle with Herb Spice. Unbelievable! 1.75 oz. Ingredients include savory, thyme, fennel, rosemary, salt, lavender, and basil.
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Cajohn's Cajun Seasoning
$7.50
John Hard, a Fire Protection Engineer by trade, had a passion for hot & spicy foods. Unlike most of us, he turned his passion into a successful business. His sauces, salsas and seasonings -- packaged under the Cajohn's name -- are carefully prepared in small batches and among the most flavorful you will find.
Cajohn's take on the classic Cajun seasoning is one of the best blackening spices we've used. 5 oz. Ingredients include spices, salt, sugar and dextrose.
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Cajohn's Carolina BBQ Seasoning
$7.50
In North Carolina, they take their barbecue very seriously. The sauce is vinegar-based, augmented with a variety of herbs, spices and other seasonings whose exact composition is a fiercely guarded family secret. The object of its devotion is invariably pork.
You can use Cajohn's Carolina BBQ Seasoning on any meat you want, of course -- steaks, chops, chicken or shrimp. But we still think it works best on pork. 6 oz. Ingredients include spices, brown sugar, salt and natural lemon flavoring.
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Cajohn's Gourmet Thai Spice
$7.50
A seasoning that brings the piquant flavors of red curry to your fish and stir fried vegetables. 4.5 oz. Ingredients include red curry spices, onion, garlic, salt, peppers, coconut, dehydrated soy sauce, lemongrass, sugar and lime flavoring.
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Cajohn's Chile Lime Seasoning
$7.50
Chile and lime is the classic Caribbean flavor pairing, particularly tasty on fish. Lime, in fact, is the culinary "acid" of choice in tropical climes where vinegar is not as popular as it is farther north. Citrus juice prolongs and intensifies the chile burn much the same way that vinegar does but for a shorter interval.
5 oz. Ingredients include spices, onion, salt, molasses, natural lime flavoring and spice extract.
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Yucatan Sunset Rub
$6.50
The main ingredient in Yucatan Sunset is ancho chile. Anchos, or poblano peppers, are the chiles that loan mole its mildly smoky, piquant flavor. They are packed with more flavor than burn, registering only 2000 or so Scoville units. They were one of the mainstays of traditional Mexican cooking in the 19th century, and since New Mexican cuisine is very true to its Mexican roots, one of the staples of the Albuquerque and Santa Fe table today.
Other ingredients include salt, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, oregano, marjoram and soybean oil. 2 oz. Made in Sonoma in small batches by husband-and-wife artisan sauciers Steve and Susan Stone.
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Dave's Insanity Spice
$7.50
Red Savina Habanero flakes saturated with chile extract. This stuff is hot. Great for sprinkling on pizza when Round Table's spicy sausage isn't spicy enough.
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Dave's Gourmet Six Pure Dried Chiles
$10.00
For non-chileheads it comes as something of a shock to find out that different chiles have -- duh! -- different flavors and different degrees of heat. This ingeniously designed canister dispenses six individual chile seasonings: ancho, cayenne, chipotle flakes, De Arbol (hard to find), Habañero flakes & a generic "New Mexico seasoning."
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Lynchburg Tennessee Whiskey Barbecue Seasoning & Rub
$7.50
There's a reason why the label looks like Jack Daniels -- the rub is made with Jack Daniels! An excellent sweet and sassy barbecue seasoning that brings out the wild side of your burgers, steak, chicken and pork. Especially tasty when you finish them off with Tennessee Whiskey Barbecue Sauce. 5oz. Ingredients include salt, sugar, spices, paprika, onion powder, natural hickory smoke flavor, flavoring and Jack Daniels Black Label Whiskey.
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Bone Suckin' Rib Rub
$7.50
Yeah, yeah, it's called "rib rub." But this delicious blend of brown sugar, chili pepper and spices is also an all-purpose seasoning. Try sprinkling a teaspoon on your salad or season some peeled potatoes with it before you oven roast them. But getting back to ribs... there's a great recipe on the side of the canister.
6.2 oz. Other ingredients include salt, sugar, dehydrated garlic, onion, bell pepper, citric acid and natural flavor.
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Gator Hammock Gator Sprinkle
$7.50
"Gator sauce" is the generic name for a delicious concoction native to the Florida coast of the Gulf of Mexico, brewed from garlic, hot peppers, vinegar and other spices. Sometimes the pepper is St. Augustine's own datil; other times it's aged cayenne mash.
We think Gator Hammock from Felda, Florida is the best of the line — and we're not alone; Buddy Taylor, Gator Hammock's proprietor, has been featured on The Food Network's special Foods of the Everglades. Gator Hammock Gator Sprinkle is a great way of flavoring anything that goes on the grill, particularly if it's green and eight feet long. 6.5 oz. Ingredients include garlic, salt, other spices, and assorted peppers.
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Gator Hammock Cooter Rub
$7.50
"Cooter" is a slang term popular throughout the South for turtle. (Yeah, some people think it means something else, but they have dirty minds.) This particular rub was designed to bring out the unique flavor of softshelled turtles, which most of us living outside the Everglades don't have access to. Don't give up! It's also excellent as a substitute for more classic Cajun-style seasonings when frying shrimp, pork or chicken. 6.5 oz. Ingredients include garlic, onion, basil, sage, smoked jalapenos — editor's note: that's chipotle to you, folks — and additional peppers.
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