ZOMGSAUCE

Batch #108 is here!

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:42:13 -0400

Our dreams have come true!

One afternoon not long ago, Captain Capsaicin and baby Otis hit the couch for a catnap.

Miraculously, a vision of Batch #108 appeared to the Captain in a dream. The first limited batch of sauce for 2010 won't be a hot sauce, but a spicy ketchup. Made with beautiful roasted heirloom tomatoes, scotch bonnets and chipotles, this ketchup is killer.

Gorgeous heirloom tomatoes ready for roasting.

Batch #108 in 250ml squeeze bottles.

Get your bottle of ZOMG Killer Ketchup ASAP. Supplies will not last. And now you don't have to mix your precious #101 with ketchup! Hope everyone enjoys!

In other exciting news, the sauces section is up! Check it out! Next step: online store. Coming soon. We promise.

Big Hug,

-ZOMG

New ZOMG coming soon!

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:17:28 -0500

Howdy yall!

Just wanted to touch base. Make sure you brace yourselves for our new limited Batch #108! It's going to be the stuff dreams are made of. Coming soon!

In the mean time, do your homework!

Love you guys!

-Team ZOMG.

UH OH! OUR BLOG GOT A FACELIFT!

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:53:49 -0500

Check it check it check it out!

Isn't it gorgeous? Big love out to ZOMG family member, evul otis (http://wurk.axisofevul.com/) for blessing us with this beautiful new home. I think it just got a little more adult in here. Apart from the sexy new styles, we've got some new buttons, a dedicated sauces section (content coming soon...) and we've brought back comments! Yay!

To take advantage of all this lovely new space, and to celebrate our first year as hot sauce purveyors, may we present to you:

The ZOMG Archive: 2008-2009

2008-2009

Stay tuned for more fun in 2010!

Pounds and hugs,

- Team ZOMG

ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN RESULTS!

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:48:52 -0500

AND THE WINRAR IS...

CONGRATURATIONS!

First off, a huge thanks very much to everyone who contributed and entered our first ever fan photo contest. We got a ton of awesome entries and we were totally overwhelmed by the pure awesomeness of our awesome fans and friends. In fact, there was so much awesome that we had to reformat the competition and instead of a 1st, 2nd and 3rd, we're gonna break it down fresh and slice it into categories. Like the Oscars. It's gonna be great. You'll see...

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Most Eggsellent Photo

In the category of eggs and breakfast, there was a whole lot of awesome. Obviously, ZOMG is awesome on eggs, but who had the best photo? The nominees are:

Matt with some beautiful homegrown eggs:

Matt raised these eggs himself

Chip with some poached perfection:

Mouthing watering...

Uncle Fes with a New Year's breakfast feast:

Proper portions

AND THE WINRAR IS:

Matt! With his cool cup and homegrown eggs! Hard to compete against a guy who actually raised the eggs himself. What you know about organic?

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The Category of Cute

This was a big category, dominated by two heavy hitters. The nominees are:

Kasha's Babcia hard at work at the pierogi factory:

Babcia don't play

VS.

Charlene getting the youth started early:

All I want for Xmas is some ZOMG!

AND THE WINRAR IS:

Babcia! Sorry Charlene, but nobody puts Babcia in a corner.

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ZOMG Recipe Submissions. Serious Business.

This was the best. Getting full recipe submissions from some super awesome and super creative people. This one was a bitch to judge. The ZOMGesus and The ZOMGenius did not see eye to eye on this one. A third, nonpartisan judge had to be brought in to settle it. The nominees are:

Rob going nuts over ZOMG:

HAWT NUTS!!

Going NUTS OVER ZOMG

1 egg white
1tbsp water
1 lb. nuts
1 cup white sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
1/4 to 1/2 tsp cayenne (optional)
substitute ZOMG SAUCE!!!

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preheat oven to 250F. Use Pam or parchment on a baking sheet
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in a mixing bowl whip together egg white and water till frothy
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in separate bowl mix together sugar, salt and cinammon
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add nuts to egg white, stir to coat the nuts evenly. Remove from egg bowl and toss with spice & sugar mixture until coated. Spread on prepped baking sheet
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bake at 250 for an hour stirring every 15 minutes
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after an hour remove from heat and cool, then PIG OUT!!

VS:

Ben and Waun with their ZOMGussels:

KEEP THE ZOMGusselJuice(c)!

Hey ZOMGuys,

This holiday Lauren and I did mussels for our Christmas dinner, but instead of normal mussels, we did ZOMGussels! Here's a recipe for those of us out there that love ZOMG and love seafood:

Ingredients:

2lbs fresh mussels, cleaned and de-bearded
1/4 cup butter
1 white onion, diced
1 large tomato, diced
2 cloves garlic, diced
1/2 cup cava (we used Segura Viudas)
2-3tbsp Batch 101

Directions:

1. Get a large saucepan with a lid that fits tightly. Inside, melt the butter, and sautee the tomato, onion and garlic together until they're softened on medium-high.

2. Pour in the mussels, QUICKLY add the wine and ZOMG, and get the lid on. Reduce the heat to medium.

3. Simmer the mussels in the saucepan for 5 minutes or until they're all (or nearly all) opened, shaking it to get the ones near the top down where the heat is.

4. Take saucepan off the heat, and carefully drain through a strainer into a bowl. KEEP THE ZOMGusselJuice(c)!

5. Transfer (dump) mussels into your serving dish, we used a large salad bowl.

6. Your hands are probably already tired from cleaning and de-bearding all those mussels, but if you have the energy, eat one out the shell (for QC if nothing else), and use half of that shell to scrape out 10 or so of its friends so there's a high ratio of delicious to shell, especially at the bottom. Shake the serving dish around to distribute them.

7. If you're feeling creative, you can put the ZOMGusselJuice back on the stove quickly at this point and thicken it, or add some new flavours. We added more 101 and let it boil for a minute or two.

8. Pour ZOMGusselJuice evenly over the mussels in the serving dish.

9. Serve and enjoy! We had ours with caesar salad and a sliced baguette. Serves 2 hungry people.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you're cleaning mussels, give each one a couple taps on the shell and within a couple seconds it should close up tightly. if it doesn't, throw it away. Same with cracked or damaged ones. When you're eating them, if any aren't open enough you can fit a finger easily between the sides of the shell, same deal, it was dead when it went in the pot.

Hope you guys enjoy our recipe!

AND THE WINRAR IS:

Rob and his hawt nuts! Again, this one was a bitch to judge. A righteous bitch. In the end, the nuts took it. It might have had something to do with Rob supplying samples along with his entry, or the fact that he submitted half a dozen photos along with the recipe... But Rob's nuts took it by a hair.

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And the Grand Prize Winner:

THE ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN GRAND CHAMPION:

(Drum roll)

TONEWISE WITH HIS TOP SHELF!!!

Stop having a boring hot sauce. Stop having a boring life.

This one takes it all. A champion among champions. Big thanks to Tony for this masterpiece. He takes the hot sauce photo cake.

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Honourable Mentions:

Best Appearance by a Cat

OM NOM NOM NOM

Smokey eating a ZOMG Roti. This was probably Krazy Kat Lady Kat's Grand Prize Winner, but we're a hot sauce company. Not cuteoverload.com.

Most Submissions

Thanks Will!

Will, with more submissions than anyone else with a total of 6 photos!

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All of our winrars will receive and email shortly re: awesome prize action. Again, monstrous thanks to everyone who participated and took time to share their ZOMG moments with us. This has been so much fun, we're obviously going to have to do a ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART DEUX. In fact... the submissions have already started...

Big sloppy love to you all!

- Team ZOMG

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! HAWT SHOTS UPDATE!

Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:57:37 -0500

Happy Holidays to all our fans, friends and hot sauce fiends!

Hope everyone has had a lovely holiday season, and that so far 2010 is treating everyone well. Sorry to anyone who missed out on a ZOMG delivery before Xmas, a happy holiday flu invaded our headquarters and slowed our operation to a crawl. But, everyone is back in fighting form and we're looking forward to making 2010 a very big year for ZOMG!

ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN UPDATE!

Was Santa good to you this year? He was awesome to us! We got a whole bunch of new fan photos submitted for our photo contest! It was just what we wanted!

Here are some highlights:

ZOMG invades Babcia's Pierogi Factory!

Babcia's Pierogi Factory

Some seriously good lookin' eggs from Chip

Poached egges with just the right amout of ZOMG

A New Year's breakfast feast from Uncle Fes!

Dangerously Delicious Looking

Spicy nuts from Rob, complete with recipe!

Warning: Please Try This At Home

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So, yes, Santa was very good to us this year. Huge thanks to everyone participating in ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN! You guys are the best! Please check out our facebook page to see all of the lovely and amazing photo submissions. The contest is running until January 7th, 2010, so you've got a couple more days to get your photos in!

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Tiny little hot sauce update:

Batch #101: The Original -- Available, as always.

Batch #105: Scotch Bonnet Mango Madness -- SOLD OUT

Batch #106: Sriracha Sauce, ZOMG-Style -- SOLD OUT

Batch #107: Holiday Cranberry Hot Sauce -- SOLD OUT

Big Hugs and Mad Love,

-The ZOMG Fam

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ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN!

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:05:05 -0500

Announcing the 1st Ever ZOMG Fan Photo Contest!

Ghettosocks and mini tacos

One of our favourite things about this amazing hot sauce journey we're on is seeing our friends and fans enjoying our sauce through the pics that they email, post, tweet and tag at us. Nothing warms our hearts more than seeing people enjoying our sauces in interesting ways and in interesting places. So... We decided to make it official, and make it competitive.

Thus, we begin, ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN!

Guidelines
- Photos must contain ZOMGSAUCE in some form
- Bonus points for creative food usages, photo quality, celebrity appearances and cuteness
- And that's it!

+1 for cuteness, -1 for lack of celebrities

Example: ZOMGenius Kat Krazy Kat's pic of ZOMG Batch #106 on Smartfood Popcorn. Applied one kernel at a time. Don't worry, she can't win. She's a judge.

Prizes
1st Place - The Ultimate ZOMGSAUCE Prize Pack - including merchandise and prototype products not yet available for purchase
2nd Place - The not so Ultimate but still pretty good ZOMGSAUCE Prize Pack - including one piece of mystery merch and two bottles of our latest sauce
3rd Place - The Third is the Worst ZOMGSAUCE Prize Pack - two bottles of our latest sauce

Competition Begins
NOW! Well, actually, it's already started, because if you've ever sent us a pic, it's being entered. Check our facebook page for the ZOMG HAWT SHOTS PART UN picture album. Also, if you've sent us one, and don't see it, let us know.

Competition Ends
January 7th, 2010. Figured that would allow the contest to go over the holidays, and give you guys enough time to recover from New Year's.

Submissions can be made through our Facebook, Twitter or emailed directly to zomg@zomgsauce.com . All photos will be judged by a panel of experts, paid handsomely for their time. Good luck to all competitors!

LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!!!

-Team ZOMG

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BATCH #101 BACK IN STOCK! AND...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:38 -0500

Announcing the release of Batch #106!!!!!!!!!!

First off, a big sack of sorrys to all our friends and fans who've been waiting to re-up on Batch #101. We've finally made fresh stock, and we're super duper sorry to have kept you waiting. We still love you. Do you still love us?

We've got loads of fresh Batch #101 ready for your taste buds, and if you need some for the holidays, HALLAH!

Also, in other huge news....

We're proud to announce the release of our newest limited batch, Batch #106!

Inspired by the world famous thai-style chili sauce, we decided we'd try our hand at a Sriracha sauce. I know, exciting, isn't it? Worse still, we decided it was only appropriate to put it in squeeze bottles! For serious. Not even foolin.

Get yours while supplies last. Which they wont.

Sexy Thai Chilies

:O! Squeeze Bottles!

Godspeed, little cheese doodles.

-Team ZOMG

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Uh oh... Risotto Balls.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:04:41 -0500

Brace yourself. We actually did this.

So Krazy Kat Lady Kat made some amazing green pea and lemon risotto last night and decided this afternoon that the world wasn't fit to live in if you couldn't take the left overs, roll them into balls, stuff them with mozzarella and fry them. She's the ZOMGenius for a reason. Pardon any typos, I think I'm in a risotto ball coma.

Ingredients

Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
2 large eggs, beaten to blend
2 cups Risotto with Peas, cooled
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1 1/2 cups dried Italian-style bread crumbs
ZOMG added with reckless abandon
2 ounces mozzarella, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Your favourite tomato sauce beefed up with ZOMG to taste

Directions

Pour enough oil in a heavy large saucepan to reach the depth of 3 inches. Heat the oil over medium heat to 350 degrees F.
Stir the eggs, risotto, Parmesan, loads of your favourite batch of ZOMG and 1/2 cup of the bread crumbs in a large bowl to combine. Place the remaining breadcrumbs in a medium bowl. Using about 2 tablespoons of the risotto mixture for each, form the risotto mixture into 1 3/4-inch-diameter balls. Insert 1 cube of mozzarella into the center of each ball. Roll the balls in the bread crumbs to coat.
Working in batches, add the rice balls to the hot ail and cook until brown and heated through, turning them as necessary, about 4 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the rice balls to paper towels to drain. Let rest 2 minutes. Serve hot with warmed ZOMGezzy tomato sauce over top.

Brace Yourself.

This Happened.

Feel free to check out the ZOMG facebook page for more pictures of this most decadent of treats.

Pounds and hugs,

-Team ZOMG

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN HABANERO HEADS!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:07:39 -0400

Habarero Head

Wait! Don't throw away your pumpkin guts!

Try this toasted pumpkin seeds with ZOMG recipe.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups raw whole pumpkin seeds
2 teaspoons butter, melted
2 teaspoon ZOMGSAUCE Batch #101
1 pinch salt

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2.Toss seeds in a bowl with the melted butter, ZOMG and salt. Spread the seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake for about 45 minutes or until golden brown; stir occasionally.

Trick or Treat! Wash your Feet!

The ZOMG Fam

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EPIC ZOMG NEWS!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:42:26 -0400

First and foremost, ZOMG got it's first shout out on National Radio!

Our very own ZOMGesus, DJiRATE, performed on CBC GO! last weekend with More or Les & Fresh Kils to promote their new EP & their amazing new video Pop N Chips!

Click this link here and listen to the "Let Borel Order the Wine" episode. ZOMG gets the shine at about 1:06:20.

PS: We sold a ton of sauce at the show, and big thanks to all the audience members who took a bottle of ZOMG home! Hope you're enjoying it!

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Second and secondmost, we are proud to announce the formal incorporation of ZOMG Foods Inc! Woot Woot!

ZOMG Foods Inc. Baby!

This is super exciting for us as this is a big step in getting ZOMG closer to being 10,000% legal and legit, and it just means that we're that much closer to taking over the world. Huge pounds and hugs to our resident ZOMGenius, the Krazy Kat Lady, for taking care of business.

Sadly, Pasta was pissed that we went with ZOMG Foods Inc., instead of Pasta's Pasta Sauce Inc., and she appears to be set to make a break for it in her ZOMG balloon. It's possible that it's just a publicity stunt, but nonetheless, our prayers go out to her and her family and we hope she lands safely soon.

SOMEBODY CALL BLITZER!!

Feel free to check out the ZOMG facebook page for more pictures of Pasta's great escape!

Sloppy Kisses,

Team ZOMG.

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