Big Acres'May eNewsletter
(12/15/2004)

Happy Holidays from Big Acres Sauces!
There's lots of Holiday Cheer at our place this year! Read the great news in this issue:

- Send Your Favorite Relative a Big Acres Gift Box
- New Products -- Smoker Bags from Finland!
- December 11 School Fundraiser Event
- Milagro Mole wins a Scovie Award
- San Jose Mercury News reviews our new products
- Big Acres Sauces goes nationwide at Wild Oats Markets
- Holiday Recipes

Send a Gift Box for the Holidays and save 15%!
It's not too late to ship sauce for the holidays! We now have 6 flavors to fill your gift box or case of 6 bottles -- Milagro Mole, Mango Peach Chile, Chipotle Peanut, Hot & Spicy Barbeque, Rich & Mild Barbeque and Teriyaki Marinade. For a gift box, elect 3 flavors, write a greeting, and we'll do the rest! Use our order form or call us with your order at 650-593-9301.

Mention this newsletter and get 15% off your holiday order (excluding shipping & handling)!

Send our 3-pack gift box to your dad, mom, brother, sister, in-laws, and friends for up to $17 each plus shipping & handling! Or send a case of 6 bottles for $25.50 to $30.60 plus shipping and handling.

New Products - Smoker Bags from Finland!
Maybe you read about these products in the San Jose Mercury News - they're a fabulous product from a Finnish company called SAVU. They're made of foil and contain natural wood chips and sugar. You place your meat, chicken, fish, veggies, etc., inside the bag, close it up and place it on the grill -- and BAM! You've got smoked food in minutes! These disposable bags retail for $3.49 each. Order yours today or send them to friends and family for the holidays!

Mention this newsletter and get 15% off your holiday order (excluding shipping & handling)!

December 11 Fundraiser Event - Mt. Carmel Holiday Home Tour
Join us for the 3rd annual Mt. Carmel Holiday Home Tour. Featuring five beautiful Mount Carmel area homes splendidly decorated for the holidays. Enjoy complimentary refreshments, entertainment and a holiday gift boutique including the wildly popular raffle for a holiday china service for 8.

Saturday, December 11th; 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tickets $20 ($25 at the door), Benefiting Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School
12 Woodstock, Redwood City, CA (corner of Whipple & Woodstock)
For tickets or questions contact the Mt. Carmel Parish Office (650-366-3802) or Joni Reicher (650-568-9359)

We won a 2005 Scovie Award!
Fiery Foods & BBQ Magazine (www.fiery-foods.com) holds an annual international competition called the Scovie Awards. This competition is named after the "scoville unit" which is the unit of measure used to rate the heat of a chile pepper. This year more the magazine received more than 600 entries! Big Acres Milagro Mole won a 2nd Place award in the competition's "Cook-it-up - Unique" division. We're very excited to receive this award and want to thank the magazine for this honor!

In the News. . .
On October 27, Carolyn Jung, food writer for the San Jose Mercury News, had this to say about our new products:

"FOR A SAUCY TIME: Dress up everyday chicken, duck, pork or seafood with two new robust Big Acres-brand sauces from Melanie's Fine Foods of San Carlos. Milagro mole, just the ticket to make a quick batch of shredded pork tacos or enchiladas, is a complex, flavorful blend of ancho and pasilla chiles, Mexican chocolate, bananas, raisins, peanuts and spices. Mango peach chile, perfect on shrimp, is a sweet-spicy sauce of mango and peach chunks with onions, serrano chiles and red bell peppers."

Where to Buy. . .
Great news! Our products are now distributed nationwide to Wild Oats Markets! We're very excited to be accepted by this growing chain. Their product standards are very high and we passed all their tests! Stop in and pick up a bottle of sauce!

You may also find our products at these new locations:

Chef Shop, San Carlos, CA
Daybreak Coffee Roasters, Glastonbury, CT
Kruger & Sons Propeller, Seattle, WA
Julio's Liquors, Westboro, MA
Robert's Market & Liquors, Woodside, CA
Santa Cruz Chili & Spice Inc., Tumacacori, AZ
Smith & Hook Winery, Soledad, CA

You'll find more locations on our Where to Buy page.

Holiday Recipes
At our various holiday events this year, lots of people requested our recipes for the dishes we presented. Here's an appetizer and a main course.

Mango Peach Chile & Cheese Appetizer
Serve this simple and delicious appetizer at your holiday party -- or take it to a friend's party!

Goat or cream cheese
1 bottle Big Acres Mango Peach Chile Sauce
Crackers

Place goat cheese in a small, flat bowl. Pour sauce over cheese to cover. Place spreader in bowl and place bowl in center of a large platter. Spread crackers on platter around bowl and serve!

Shredded Pork with Milagro Mole
Serves 3 to 4

1 2-lb. pork loin
1 bottle Big Acres Milagro Mole
Rice, cooked
Sour cream and guacamole for garnish

Rinse meat, pat dry and trim fat. Brown meat on all sides in medium skillet. Place meat in slow cooker (crockpot) and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours. (Alternatively, you may roast the meat in a covered pan in the oven at 250 degrees for 8 hours.) When loin is cooked, drain most of the juice, leaving just a little for flavor, then pull pork apart using two forks. Pour Milagro Mole over pork and mix gently to cover meat. Warm it up in the crock pot and serve over rice with sour cream and guacamole and a fresh green salad.

You may also use this pork in tacos. Try this recipe with chicken or your leftover turkey too!

There are lots of recipes on our web-site too -- just click here to view them! Please send us your favorite recipe; we'll consider publishing it here in our newsletter!

Thanks for reading our news! Melanie's Fine Foods and Big Acres Sauces wish you a very Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa! Enjoy your friends and family and have a very Happy New Year!

Best wishes,
Customer Service
Melanie's Fine Foods, Inc.

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