Slide Ridge Martin's Green Chili and Honey Marinade Recommended by Whom You Know!
Green chili and honey… the right amount of zip and sweetness! I used Slide Ridge’s Martin’s Green Chili and Honey Marinade as a delicious addition to my lettuce tacos. My usually yummy dinner was definitely stepped up a notch!!! This marinade added a touch of tang and a touch of sweetness as the perfect complement to this dish! It is packed with flavor, so a little bit goes a long way, but it’s all natural, so you don’t need to feel bad about adding a little (or more than a little!) to any dish!
Slide Ridge – Martin’s Green Chili & Honey Marinade is composed of honey-apple vinegar (naturally brewed), honey, chilies and garlic. The green chili while being joyfully spicy is met with the sweetness of the honey. These two taste combinations sprinkled over the melding ingredients in a taco complete your meal with pleasure. Green chili and honey marinade is also a superb marinade for any beef, pork, chicken and fish.
Slide Ridge is a beekeeping company in Utah. And that sentence opens a wealth of imagery about what they do, where it's done, and what delicious results they achieve in their products. One of the perks of their business is the making of Honey Wine, which they distill to use as a base for a wonderful marinade that will add the right bite to anything. We made sauteed apples and sausages (vegan) as a Sunday brunch entree, using the Slideridge Green Chili and Honey marinade as a base for the sauce. The flavor is just right for the apples, and the chili note works as a foil for the sausage. Meat-eaters will love it, basted on the grill , or used to marinate their ingredients before any recipe. Vegetables love it too, and I'm thinking of using it to make a dip. Recipes are born with ingredients like this marinade, and you'll have fun with it in your kitchen. Think bees, and bee happy.
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Martin James began his beekeeping dreams at the age of 8 when he asked to attend a class at the local university (USU). He was too young, but the following year, he persuaded his mother to enroll and the professor allowed Martin to come along with her. His fascination for bees has never waned.
About a dozen years ago, Martin along with his sister Karla decided to get serious about beekeeping with a desire to make his passion his profession. Martin had already built a successful floor covering business, but decided it was time to follow his boyhood dreams. Since that time, Slide Ridge has grown from a few beehives to thousands of beehives and millions of bees. The operation now employs not only Martin, but his brother, two sisters, and other full and part-time staff. His parents have contributed their expertise from the beginning and continue to bring meaningful experience and service to the company.
After a few years of pollination and honey sales, Martin decided it was time to create a new, unique product, using the honey from his bees. The goal was to diversify the company and provide better revenue from derivative honey products. We’re beekeepers, and to us, honey is art, sunshine, captured in a jar. But we weren’t satisfied with beautiful honey; we wanted to make something different, something no one else was doing, something amazing! So, we decided to use our beautiful honey to make vinegar, from scratch, without any prior knowledge of how to do it.
It took seven years to understand and perfect the process: seven years of patience, seven years of setbacks, seven years of progress, until finally, we had the perfect vinegar, the perfect flavor. The end result was a sweet Honey Wine Vinegar unlike anything we have ever tasted. It retains the sweetness of the honey and radiates the strength and beauty of the sunshine that is its ultimate source. Hand crafted and tended through a custom 18 month process, we bottle the essential joy of the sun!
So began the family’s journey in the gourmet food industry. The company continues to innovate, based on the family’s boundless energy and creativity with additional vinegar flavors, a line of marinades, and other new ideas and products currently in development.
Our unique vinegar products are hand crafted from 100% pure, raw, unfiltered Utah wildflower honey, straight from the bee to the bottle. The end result is an unforgettable flavor that is smooth enough to enjoy by itself, but strong enough to liven up your favorite dishes, from meats to salads to deserts.
Slide Ridge products are all-natural products using all-natural methods and ingredients. We don't use pesticides or other artificial chemicals in the maintenance of our hives and bees. Our methods are natural and progressive, and we offer our understanding and knowledge freely to other beekeepers. The process of pollination is the essence of sustainable agriculture. Our bees pollinate commercial crops in the spring and summer wildflowers during the honey flow, improving the farmer's yield as well as the quality and strength of the open range lands. Our honey is never filtered or homogenized. It is extracted and bottled in recyclable glass jars that can also be reused as canning jars for those who preserve their own produce. We use no artificial colors or preservatives in our honey or our vinegars, maintaining the inherent beauty and flavor of a natural product.
Our Honey Wine Vinegar is great as a simple yet flavorful low-calorie dressing, but it also makes a great ingredient for dressings, marinades, glazes, sauces, desserts, and much more! It livens up any table and pairs very well with fruits and vegetables, meats and fish, specialty cheeses, and even desserts. The flavor is bright and sweet, but not overpowering, making a perfect ingredient for just about any dish.
Martin’s Green Chili is our first marinade; it is a southwest flavor using our Harvest Apple honey vinegar, green chilies and garlic. We carefully source all our ingredients, using local or regional producers and individual farms. The results are incredible flavors that are delicious, healthy, and just plain fun to use.
