Homemade in Elgin, Texas

Home grown. Hand jarred. No survivors.

Small-batch salsa, hot sauce, cowboy candy, pickles and chow chow. Everything grown out back, everything put up by hand, in a kitchen you would not want to walk into unannounced.

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SalsaMild to unholy
Hot SauceMore than is wise
Cowboy CandyCandied jalapeños
PicklesDill & bread'n'butter
Chow ChowThe old way
More!Ask, if you're brave

Paula's

Salsas, pickles, cowboy candy & more

Paula's side of the table. Same garden, gentler intentions. Mostly.

Jars of Paula's dill pickles fresh from the kitchen, cucumber, onion, dill and a red pepper in the brine

Mild Smoked Jalapeño Salsa

Tomato, smoked jalapeños, smoked bell pepper, cilantro, garlic, onion and lime juice.

Harmless

$10

Jalapeño Salsa

Tomato, jalapeños, serrano pepper, cilantro, garlic, onion and lime juice.

Uneasy

$10

Tropical Fire Salsa

Mango, papaya, strawberry, habanero, jalapeño, serrano, bell pepper, cilantro and lime.

Regrettable

$10

Smoked Ghostly Salsa

Tomato, smoked habanero, smoked serrano, garlic, onion, lime juice and cider vinegar.

Regrettable

$10

Cowboy Candy

Candied jalapeños with sugar, spices and cider vinegar. Sweet first, then not.

Uneasy

$10

Pineapple Cowboy Candy

Pineapple, jalapeños, sugar, ginger, spices and cider vinegar.

Uneasy

$10

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Crazy John's

The hot sauces

Crazy John builds these one small batch at a time, out in the shed, and they climb from friendly to genuinely reckless. The rating is his own, it goes well past the reaper, and he does not grade on a curve.

Bottles of Crazy John's ultra insanity sauces on the market table

Harmless

Uneasy

Regrettable

No survivors

Vampire Killer

Red jalapeño, garlic, lemon juice, onion, cilantro, olive oil and white vinegar.

Uneasy

$10

Tropical Scotch Bonnet

Scotch bonnet, pineapple, garlic, onion, cilantro, olive oil and lemon juice.

Regrettable

$10

Ghostly Blackberry

Ghost pepper, blackberries, garlic, onion, cilantro and cider vinegar.

Regrettable

$10

Insanity

Carolina reaper, ghost pepper, garlic, onion, cilantro and cider vinegar.

No survivors

$10

Blueberry Fields of Death

Carolina reaper, blueberries, onion, cilantro, olive oil and cider vinegar.

No survivors

$10

Strawberry Fields of Ultra Insanity

Strawberries, Carolina reaper, scorpion pepper, ghost pepper, garlic, onion and cilantro.

No survivors

$10

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What it costs

Buy one, or buy three

Same prices at the booth and online.

Pints & hot sauce$103 for $25Salsas, cowboy candy, pickles and every one of Crazy John's sauces.

Quarts$153 for $40For bigger hot stuff.

Pick upFreeAt the market, or in ElginOrder online, then grab it from us at the next market. No shipping to worry about.

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Come see us

Where to find us

Lurking at markets and community events around Elgin and Central Texas most weekends. You'll know the booth when you see it.

Nothing on the books right now. Facebook has the latest.

Paula adds dates in the same spreadsheet as the products.

The Paula and Crazy John's booth set up under a canopy with red tables full of jars

Our story

Most of what goes in the jar came out of our own garden.

Minced red peppers and seeds, part way through a batch of hot sauce

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Paula and Crazy John have been putting up salsa, hot sauce, pickles and cowboy candy out of a home kitchen in Elgin, Texas, growing most of the peppers and produce themselves. What started as too much of a garden harvest turned into a booth, and the booth turned into a following.

Everything is made in small batches under the Texas Cottage Food Law, jarred and labeled by hand, and sold face to face at markets across Central Texas.