Last of the Fresh Sweet Bells and Padróns

The unusual weather this winter has had its benefits. We are still producing peppers in January. We will bring our last Padróns and Sweet Bells to the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market this Saturday. Even though this will be our last weekend for fresh peppers, your kitchen fare doesn't have to be dull.

Spice Up Your Kitchen

With crushed pepper powders from our large selection of handcrafted artisanal Paprika and Pimenton.

Commercial paprika and chili powders can't compare. Our pepper powders are handmade in small batches from the peppers we grow here on our family farm in East Palo Alto. Can't get much fresher or local than that. Full of complex flavors - sweet fruitiness with citrus tones, chocolatey, smokey, and of course, depending on the heat level of the paprika, spicy. They can add a little or a lot of zest to any dish, even fruit! From sweet to very hot we offer something for every palette. If you are unfamiliar with paprikas start with one of our Paprika Collections.

Click here to read what Food Gal has to say about our Paprika and Pimenton.

Happy Quail Farms Paprika

We use the term Paprika to describe our Happy Quail Farms crushed or ground dried peppers.

Hand processing small batches to insure freshness, we select only the best quality ripe fruit carefully drying the peppers until they are crisp enough to grind.
We grind the whole pepper, removing only the stem, to preserve the natural vitamins in the seeds as well as the rich complex flavors of the individual peppers. Color can vary dramatically from one pepper variety to another, with each harvest, and whether the peppers are sun dried or dried in our dehydrator.

Happy Quail Farms Pimenton

Pimenton is the Spanish term we have adopted for our smoked pepper powders.

We slowly smoke-dry small batches of our farm grown peppers in a digitally controlled low temperature smoker, using a blend of our own oak and fruit wood to give our artisanal Pimenton a delicious smokey  sweet flavor.
Pimenton is often used in Spanish or Latin cooking; paella, seafood, and potato dishes.

Try one of our assorted Paprika Collections. This is a great way to get acquainted with our various Paprikas.

Sweet to Mildly Hot
Sweet to Hot Paprikas
Smoked Sweet to Hot Pimentons
Mexican Collection
Peruvian Hot Collection

They make a wonderful gift!

Click Here to Download a PDF of Our Happy Quail Farms Paprika Guide

Tobacco Moves into the Kitchen or is that the Bar?

Happy Quail Farms sells fresh cut and semi-dry uncured tobacco leaves. This is not a smoking product. Tobacco is not only for smoking, historically tobacco has been used medicinally and as a pesticide. But today's latest trend finds tobacco used to flavor drinks or sweets.

Chocolatier Paul Young, owner of eponymously named chocolate boutiques in London and an award-winning author adds tobacco to his 'Smoky' chocolates. The ingredients include 16-year-old Lagavulin whiskey, black Cavendish tobacco, a Chinese Lapsang Souchon tea, cinnamon leaf and black cardamom.

It doesn't stop there. You can eat your smoky chocolate truffle with a Tobacco Martini.