tabasco geek

So the Jalepenos are almost ready to be picked. I’ve grabbed a couple already and they’re great. Made some pico de gallo last night – 5 quarts! Didn’t take too long. Just Tomatoes (from the garden), Walla Walla sweet onions, Jalapenos, Cilantro, salt, and a little bit of lime juice. We blended it up and stuck it in Ziploc freezer bags. Hope the freezer doesn’t make the salsa turn mushy.

Now, I’d like to get to making some hot sauces, not just pico. Anyone have good recipes? Carrot based? Vinegar based? What do you think?

We recently restocked our Tabasco sauces. Was out of everything except for the “Milder Jalapeno” Green version. My fiance picked up the Tabasco ketchup. Looking forward to trying that on a burger. Mmm.

My current Tabasco quiver

We were also at Costco (warehouse type store) over the weekend and I noticed a PALLET of Tabasco sauce. Should have snapped a picture of it. Will do so next time. While we were there, we had a slice of pizza. Not very good. But, they did serve red peppers and parmesan along with the pizza if you wanted it. Why doesn’t Tabasco give out samples for pizza and all the other food Costco sells. Seems like a natural fit.

Starting to get hungry for dinner and my mouth is literally watering thinking about putting some hot sauce on the stir-fry we’re going to make tonight. Pretty cheap, easy and healthy combo I usually make. Broccoli, Carrots, Onion, Garlic, Tofu, plenty of soy sauce, and of course hot sauce. I prefer Sambal Oelek with stir fry, and my girl likes Sriracha. 

Mouth. Is. Watering. 

Mmm..

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 Here’s a sampling of some of my favorite uses for Tabasco:

• Slice an avocado in half, pull out the seed, fill with Tabasco, get a spoon and enjoy
• On rice
• On pasta (marinara, olive oil, doesn’t matter)
• Mac and Cheese
• Pizza
• Burgers
• Mexican food (although I’ll also grab a bottle of Cholula or Tapatio)
• Italian food – instantly makes any sauce an arrabiata sauce!
• Grits
• Baked Potato
• Beans and Rice
• Pot roast

What are some of the ways you use Tabasco?

It started when I was a kid growing up, we usually had some sort of bbq sauce, worcestershire , or Tabasco sauce on the table it seemed.

At college I always had a bottle in my dorm room, and later the kitchen in the apartments and houses I lived in. What started as a novelty is now a great part of my day where I look to integrate Tabasco into as many meals as possible. Thinking back, I put Tabasco on rice (with soy sauce), pasta (with marinara sauce, and olive oil based sauces), fish, meat, chicken, eggs, basically anything!

I moved from San Francisco to live in Copenhagen to do my MBA. At that point I brought over some “essentials”. Clothing, books, etc, but also some of my favorite foods I thought I may have trouble finding in Denmark. Such as mac and cheese, spices, candy, and of course, Tabasco. Little did I know that I would actually be able to find this Tabasco love in Denmark (and later Norway), but at a significantly higher price. When friends came to visit, parents, and later girlfriend (at that time – now fiancé!) I asked them to bring a bottle of Tabasco. I figured it was cheap, light, and provided me all sorts of enjoyment and thoughts of home so no big deal, right?

When I came back from Denmark and Norway a couple of times, I realized I was missing out on Tabasco’s newest releases! Chipotle, Garlic, Green, etc. Mmm…

I finally made my way back to the States and am now happily in Tabasco candy-land. I go through the stuff so much it seems. Tabasco is the meat-candy of hot sauces.

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