[CH] Philly and sauces
Dave Hendricks (bvdrangs@enter.net)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 07:09:23 +0000
I often ask questions here but never seem to have something to
contribute. Here I some about my weekend trip to Philadelphia.
My wife and I travel to Philly regularly but usually make it a point
to visit a jazz club for our wedding anniversary (yesterday was our
28th). We headed to town Friday night to a place called Ortleib's
Jazz House ( housed in what was once Ortleib's Brewery). The place
was small but promised live jazz and "the best cajun food in Philly".
I ordered the Sweet potato fries with hot honey as an appetizer.
They bring out a plate of sliced sweets (deep fried) and a cup of
dipping sauce made of honey with red pepper flakes in it. It was a
great combination and I may use the sauce with other stuff (anyone
ever mix honey and peppers for a sauce?). My wife ordered Jambalaya
and it was fantastic. My main course was fried calamari with onions
and jalepenos. Boy was I disappointed! Not hot at all! I found three
small pieces of pepper in the whole thing and they had no heat at
all.. I guess we write that one off. BTW, the jazz was great!
Saturday morning we head on over to the Italian Market. We are
walking down the street and out in front of the spice shop they are
selling hot sauce. These were from Quetzal Foods and were Habenero,
Rica Red, Hot Pepper Sauce and Calypso Sun Sauce. They were selling
them for $.50 each. I should have bought a bunch and sold them to the
list members. If you get to Philly soon, be sure to buy some. The
market area is on south 9th below Christian street. We then stopped
in Bruno's Cheeses and found Philly Chili Co. Chipotle Sauce for
$3.99. Now we have three new sauces to try out.
We stopped in a mall on the way home and found Paul Prudhomme's
book, "Fiery Foods that I Love" for $10 (was $25). Sounds like a
pretty successful weekend.
Dave "throws with mosquitos" Hendricks
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