Southwestern Mole Pizza with Smoked Mozzarella and Monterrey Jack

People who buy and cook with Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce are always telling me how they use this rich, dark mysterious sauce that combines cocoa and chiles for a unique spicy flavor. Homemade Mole Cheese Pizza is the latest creation I've heard of. I tried it and it was REALLY GOOD!

Southwestern Mole Pizza with Smoked Mozzarella and Monterrey Jack 
1 package refrigerated prepared white or whole wheat pizza dough or homemade
1 cup Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce
1 cup sliced smoked mozzarella or Gouda cheese
1 cup sliced Monterrey Jack cheese

1. Preheat the oven to 375'.
2. Spread the pizza dough out evenly on a round or rectangular pizza pan.
3. Spoon one cup of Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce or your favorite mole sauce over the surface of the dough.
4. Sprinkle the cheese on top and place the pizza in the oven for 20 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the crust is just crisp.
5. Cut into sections and serve.

Larry's Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry's Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

They are vegan and gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant in the Midwest.

Larry's Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero Sauces are now available at more than 80 stores in New England and the Hudson Valley including Price Chopper, Shop Rite and Whole Foods Markets. The list of stores keeps growing. Larry's Southwestern Sauces are now available coast to coast and around the world ONLINE at Abe's Market.


Buen provecho!

Larry Makes Huevos Rancheros on WNYT ch13 NBC Albany, NY

Click on this link to watch Larry make huevos rancheros on Let's Eat on WNYT TV in Albany



http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/17573/2855559?wpid=9046

Abe's Market Now Carries Larry's Southwestern Sauces

                                        Abe's Market now officially carries Larry's Southwestern Sauces
                                                      coast to coast and around the world ONLINE.
                                                      http://www.abesmarket.com/store/larryssauces

Cheesy Ranchero Vegetables

CHEESY RANCHERO VEGETABLES RECIPE

Gardens and farmer's markets are overflowing with zucchini, yellow squash, peppers and potatoes at this time of year. Adding a dollop of Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce and some tangy grated cheese makes a great side dish or even a main course if your crowd is vegetarian. Easy and delicious!



Cheesy Ranchero Vegetables
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 cup Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce or your favorite red enchilada sauce
4 cups diced vegetables, zucchini, yellow squash, new potatoes, onions, corn, sweet or hot peppers
1 cup grated Monterrey Jack or cheddar cheese or a mix

1. Heat the oil in a medium sized pot and add the vegetables. Cook over medium heat and stir for two minutes.
2. Add the Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce or your favorite enchilada sauce and cook for five to ten minutes until the vegetables are cooked to your liking.
3. Sprinkle the cheese on top and cook until the cheese melts.
Serves four as a side dish or two as a main vegetarian course.
 
Buy Larry's Southwestern Sauces online at Abe's Market.

Larry's Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry's Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

Larry's Southwestern Sauces are vegan and gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant in the Midwest.

Chicken Mole Recipe

People ask me all the time, "What is the best way to use your Mole Sauce?" That's easy. Make chicken mole and serve it with rice and veggies. Just place the chicken pieces in a roasting pan, cover it with Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce and bake it in the oven. Easy and delicious!

Chicken Mole
1 16 oz jar Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce or your favorite mole sauce
1 cut up whole chicken or three pounds of chicken thighs

1. Preheat the oven to 350' and warm the jar of Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce or your favorite mole sauce in a medium cooking pot.
2. Place the chicken pieces in a large roasting pan and pour Larry's Mole Sauce over the chicken.
3. Cover the roasting pan with aluminum foil and bake in the oven for 60 minutes or until the chicken is cooked to your liking.
4. Serve the Chicken Mole with rice and cooked zucchini or your favorite vegetable.
Serves 4 to 6

You can buy Larry's Southwestern Sauces online at www.larryssouthwesternsauces.com

Larry's Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry's Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

Larry's Southwestern Sauces are vegan and gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant in the Midwest.

Larry's Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero Sauces are now available at Healthy Living in Burlington, VT and Northville Supermarket in New Milford, CT. Also at Shop Rite, Price Chopper, Honest Weight Food Coop, Albany, NY, Belfast Coop Store, Belfast, ME, Guido's Fresh Marketplace, Great Barrington, MA, Adam's Fairacre Farms, Hudson Chatham Winery in Columbia County, 25 more stores in the Hudson Valley and New England and in 26 Whole Foods Markets in New England. The list of stores keeps growing.


August 22, 2011

Larry's Southwestern Sauces in the Times Union

New York Acquires a Southwest TasteLarry Sombke plans to find a national market for his sauces.

The idea of Mexican cooking sauces made in upstate New York catching fire across the country might seem improbable, but Larry Sombke is trying to make it happen.

Sombke, a cooking and gardening expert from Delmar who has authored six cookbooks, developed his own Mexican sauces years ago when he was a chef at a natural foods restaurant in Missouri.

It wasn't until about two years ago that he realized that there aren't many -- if any -- authentic Mexican cooking sauces on supermarket shelves.

Sombke was reading a recipe for a pulled-pork dish in a lifestyle magazine that used salsa as the main seasoning for the meat. Salsa is usually used in Mexican foods as a condiment, but more complex sauces are used for simmering meat and in recipes for classics like huevos rancheros.

That's when it hit Sombke that there may be pent-up demand for Mexican cooking sauces. His wife suggested he make a business out of it.

"All right, there is a market here," Sombke remembers saying.

After reading a newspaper article about a local restaurateur who was bottling his own marinades and sauces, Sombke turned to Nelson Farms in Cazenovia outside Syracuse.

Nelson Farms is an agricultural-business incubator affiliated with Morrisville State College. It works with people starting their own food businesses -- helping with everything from coming up with a concept to preparing and packaging the product to sales and marketing.

"They helped me through the whole process and how to take a home recipe and make it into a store product," Sombke said.

Sombke developed three sauces. His mainstay rancheros sauce is made from tomatoes, jalapenos, cilantro and spices. A chipotle sauce has smoked chili peppers and a mole made with cocoa. They sell under the name Larry's Southwestern Sauces for between $5.99 and $6.99 a jar.

Sombke started hawking his sauce at local farmers markets and pitching the product to supermarkets, big and small. That effort has been so successful that Larry's Southwestern Sauces are now carried in 75 stores in New York and New England, including 26 Whole Foods. Price Chopper in March started carrying sauces in 10 of its stores. He's targeting New York City and has a broker in Colorado to market the sauces in that state as well as Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, hotbeds for Mexican cuisine.

Sombke is now producing and packaging his sauces at Casa Visco in Schenectady, which in addition to making its own pasta sauces bottles private label products.

Adine Viscusi, an owner of Casa Visco, says most of its private label business is pasta sauce, but the Mexican sauces are a good fit since they are both tomato-based.

"We're glad to help him out," Viscusi said. "We started out as a small business too."

Despite the grand plans for expansion beyond of the Capital Region, Sombke says his going to local farmers markets is invaluable. He spends time each week at those held in Delmar, Voorheesville and the Empire State Plaza in Albany.

"It's a perfect marketing tool," he says. "You can get feedback. You learn about pricing. They are just the perfect way to get the product into the market."

Ranchero Chicken Quesadillas

RANCHERO CHICKEN QUESADILLAS
Quesadillas filled with warm, tasty cheese is one of the most popular new snacks found in restaurants, pubs and family eateries everywhere. With the right ingredients, they are very easy to make at home. I've added chicken to the usual cheese to give this dish a little more protein and a good dollop of Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce which I think you will find is a lot more satisfying that salsa from a jar.

Ranchero Chicken Quesadillas
1 16 oz jar Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce or your favorite enchilada sauce
2 cups chopped or shredded baked or roasted chicken
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
8 whole wheat or regular flour tortillas
1 cup shredded Monterrey Jack of cheddar cheese
1 cup sour cream

1. Warm the jar of Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce or your favorite enchilada sauce in a medium cooking pot.
2. Mix the chicken and half of the sauce and cook until thoroughly warmed.
3. Warm a large skillet over medium heat and lightly coat it with vegetable oil.
4. Place a tortilla in the skillet, spoon a portion of Larry's Ranchero Sauce and chicken over the tortilla. Sprinkle cheese over that and cover with another tortilla.
5. Cook the quesadilla for 2 to 3 minutes, flip it over and cook for another 2 to three minutes. Repeat.
6. Remove the quesadillas from the skillet, cut into four sections each and serve with the sour cream and the remaining Larry's Ranchero Sauce.
Serves 4.

You can buy Larry’s Southwestern Sauces online at www.larryssouthwesternsauces.com

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry’s Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are vegan and gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant in the Midwest.

Larry’s Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero Sauces are now available at Healthy Living in Burlington, VT and Northville Supermarket in New Milford, CT. Also at Shop Rite, Price Chopper, Honest Weight Food Coop, Albany, NY, Belfast Coop Store, Belfast, ME, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, Great Barrington, MA, Adam's Fairacre Farms, Hudson Chatham Winery in Columbia County, 25 more stores in the Hudson Valley and New England and in 26 Whole Foods Markets in New England. The list of stores keeps growing.

Give them a try. When people taste them they buy them!

August 15, 2011

Ranchero Beef Tacos

Dozens of moms and dads tell me they have switched over to using Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce to make tacos for their kids rather than the packets of taco seasoning powder they had been using. They like the fact that Larry's Ranchero Sauce is made with healthy all-natural ingredients and that their kids like the the flavor. Rather than using ground beef for these tacos, you could easily substitute ground turkey or chicken to suit your family's taste buds.



Ranchero Beef Tacos
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 pound lean ground beef, turkey or chicken
1 16 oz jar Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce or your favorite ranchero sauce
8 to 10 crunchy corn tortillas
1 cup finely shredded lettuce
1 cup shredded cheddar or Monterrey Jack cheese

1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet, add the ground beef and cook through.
2. Pour one 16 oz. jar of Larry's Southwestern Ranchero Sauce or your favorite ranchero sauce over the meat and cook for ten minutes, stirring often.
3. Fill the tacos shells with ranchero meat sauce, sprinkle on the cheese and lettuce and serve.
Serves 4.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry’s Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are vegan, gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant.

You can buy Larry’s Southwestern Sauces online at www.larryssouthwesternsauces.com

Mole Chicken Tacos Recipe

MOLE CHICKEN TACOS RECIPE

Chicken Mole is a popular and richly delicious Mexican stew served with warm corn tortillas. But there is no reason why you can't make quick and easy Mole Chicken Tacos using the same ingredients. This recipe calls for already-roasted chicken, minced onion and lettuce and a warm mole sauce. I prefer the best corn tortillas you can find, or if you prefer, you can use small wheat tortillas or the new tortillas made with a blend of whole wheat and corn.
Chicken Mole Tacos
1 16 oz jar Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce or your favorite mole sauce
1 pound shredded or cubed baked or roasted chicken
12 corn or whole wheat tortillas
1 medium white or red onion finely chopped
3 cups finely shredded lettuce or green cabbage.
(Bagged undressed cole slaw works great)

1. Warm the jar of Larry's Southwestern Mole Sauce in a medium cooking pot.
2. Add the chicken and cook until thoroughly warmed.
3. Warm the tortillas in the microwave or on the stove top until just soft and pliable.
4. Fill each tortilla with a scoop of chicken mole, a sprinkle of onion and lettuce or cabbage and serve.
5. Each person gets 3 tacos.
Serves 4.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry’s Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are vegan and gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant in the Midwest.

You can buy Larry’s Southwestern Sauces online at www.larryssouthwesternsauces.com

Chipotle Red Bean Chili Recipe

Chipotle Red Bean Chili is fast becoming one of my favorite things to offer as a sample at farmer's markets and grocery stores. Customer's keep telling me how much they like the flavor. The ground meat, red beans and chipotle sauce really seem to meld together to form a great tasting chili. This recipe is perfect for these hot days when you don't want to cook, but still want a quick and great-tasting Tex-Mex meal that is perfect to bring to a pot luck or serve at home.


Chipotle Red Bean Chili
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 pound ground beef or turkey
1 16 ounce jar Larry's Southwestern Chipotle Sauce
1 15-ounce can of red beans


1. Warm the vegetable oil in a medium cooking pot.
2. Add the ground beef or turkey and cook until done.
3. Add one 16 oz. jar of Larry's Southwestern Chipotle Sauce and cook until hot.
4. Add one 15 ounce jar of red beans, drained and cook until hot.
5. Serve with a squeeze of lime, a dollop of sour cream and a few tortilla chips.
Serves 4.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are all-natural Mexican cooking sauces to make chili, enchiladas, chicken mole, huevos rancheros, seafood, tacos or just to simmer your favorite meats in. Larry’s Sauces come in three flavors; Mole, Chipotle and Ranchero. All are made with fresh jalapeno and cilantro and a premium blend of herbs and spices.

Larry’s Southwestern Sauces are vegan and gluten-free, preservative-free and are made with no tree or ground nuts. Larry invented these sauces when he was a chef at a natural whole foods restaurant in the Midwest.

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