How Time Flies...

It's been a while since we've had the opportunity to post here.  Blending spices and developing new recipes has kept us happily busy.  We hope that as this year comes to a close you will be blessed, fortunate, and have the best of luck.  2014 promises to be an exciting year.

So much has been happening in the past month and a half...

• Gifted 1070 jars and 1400 caps by a wonderful local vendor
• Built relationships with two new vendors that are wonderful
• Packaged our 200th jar of spices

We're going to start carrying 2 jars every spice we use with us at the Gretna Farmers Market on Saturdays.  I've had people looking for ginger, white pepper, turmeric, chipotle, sage, ground thyme, ground bay leaf, and several others.  Some of these I was able to satisfy in subsequent weeks.  I'm hoping to provide immediate gratification of those requests in the near future.

Poultry Seasoning has been added to our list of spice blends to make our own version of.  We have nearly a dozen new blends in the works.  The first quarter of 2014 should be a great time of introducing the new ones as they are developed and tested.

Our spice rack will be changing shape in the next few weeks.  This new design will allow us to transport our spice blends using the rack to carry them.  No longer will we require a tote to contain them.  No longer will we have to unload the tote, set them up on the rack, then unload the rack and put them back in the tote when done for the day.

Please post your feedback about our spices here and on facebook.com/p2spice.  We'd love to hear from you!

New Business Card

Why Spices?

So glad you asked!

Our journey into creating our line of artisan spices started when my current wife entered my life.  She has an intolerance to garlic and I had to learn how to cook without it.  Most of the commercially available Creole spice blends have garlic in them, so that wasn't an option for me any longer.  I sought to find a way to get the same flavor without having the garlic in it.  

My research for recipes for Creole spice blends opened up a whole new world to me that wasn't apparent before.  I created a way to develop my own blends based on what I learned from others and made them completely my own version.  My experience cooking and experimenting with different spices gave me the foundation necessary for what is now the secret to my success.

Additional health issues throughout my own family fueled my desire to provide healthy options without compromising flavor.  I have high blood pressure and am borderline diabetic, my wife on the other hand has low blood pressure and is hypoglycemic (not diagnosed, but her blood sugar drops like a rock), my mother-in-law gets migraines if she has MSG, and a friend of hers can't have gluten.

My wife's family is 100% Italian/Sicilian and most of them have some level of intolerance to garlic.  I've said since I met her that they must all be vampires!  There's no other way to explain why they can't have garlic.  I have an affinity for garlic and have commenced roasting it every Saturday morning to sell at the Gretna Farmers Market along with our artisan spices.

P2's Spice Company was founded for the purpose of creating an artisan spice line to satisfy the above desire to cook healthy great-tasting food without the sugar, salt, MSG, preservatives, and gluten.  We use no anti-caking agents as they are not necessary when water-soluble ingredients like sugar and salt are excluded.  The company is for the sole benefit of our son PJ aka P2 (since he's the II).

PJ and the Pumpkin

You can find use nearly every Saturday morning 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at the Gretna Farmers Market on Huey P. Long Avenue in Gretna headed toward the Court House.