If you need to add a kick to your cooking, but don’t want to overwhelm your dish, as dash of this crushed chili pepper does the trick. Made from fresh, ripe, spicy red peppers carefully selected for color and firmness and plucked from the vine, you’ll find that this is one of the most versatile spices in your pantry. Of course, you can sprinkle it on pizzas and pastas to add some bite, but you can also simmer it with fish, toss it into stews, try it with chutneys, or use it to spice up grilled vegetables. You can also throw just a pinch into the batter for chocolate brownies and cakes for a Mexican-style dessert.

Sprinkle it on pizzas and pastas to add some bite, or simmer it with fish, toss it into stews, try it with chutneys, or use it to spice up grilled vegetables. You can also throw just a pinch into the batter for chocolate brownies and cakes for a Mexican-style dessert.

Fairway Marketplace is brought to you by Fairway Market, a specialty food chain that started back in 1933 with a small fruit and vegetable stand on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Today, Fairway Market is legendary for its experts and expertise in all things food, and a relentless obsession with quality throughout all of the different departments in its stores. In December of 2011, Fairway launched this online shop, so that we could bring the best of the best of what Fairway offers, at the same great values, to those who don’t live near one of our stores. Why keep all of this foodie goodness to ourselves? That simply would not be fair.