Hot pepper jelly is a great ingredient in appetizers and snacks. jmax uses it over goat cheese on crackers. nemo makes cheddar thumbprint cookies filled with pepper jelly. Janet from Richmond likes it on a bagel with cream cheese, and LulusMom likes it with peanut butter.
Several hounds point out that hot pepper jelly works nicely on its own as a condiment for grilled meats and burgers, fried oysters, and fried coconut shrimp. AGM_Cape_Cod uses hot pepper jelly in her recipe for Cajun mustard shrimp.
drbbaldwin whisks melted pepper jelly into Italian dressing to give it a sweet and tangy kick.
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I eat it on vanilla ice cream and with multigrain chips.