[CH] Sauces
Deb deForest (deforest@selec.net)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:25:38 -0500
Re: Island sauces: One of our favorites for years has been
Grand Anse #5 (Scotch Bonnets, of course). The irritating
part is that it usually is only found in those 1.6 oz
bottles if you find it at all. They are great for
portability but run out way too fast otherwise. Well, we
just recently found an online source with 5 oz bottles!
Have just ordered from them for the first time so can't give
any supplier review other than to say that the prices seem
good. Here is the url:
http://www.gourmettrader.com/catalog/htsauce/hs0p1.html#21817a
There is also another of our own Chileheads who has come up
with some great stuff you might oughta try. I just happened
upon this browsing his web page, he doesn't talk about it on
the list, of course, but he hadn't even mentioned it when we
exchanged a couple of emails some time back, either. So,
not sure how big the supply is, you might hurry. Check out
Jeff Rose's page:
http://www.ultranet.com/~jeffro/Hot%20Sauces His sauces
that I've tried are not like most others and have added some
new interesting choices to the bottles in the fridge. His
roasted red savina is WICKED GOOD sauce! Wonderful heat and
real hab flavor with some garlic (right, Jeff?) and a subtle
sweetness that seems more like the natural sweetness of
roasted ripe chiles than like added sugars. Beautiful red
color with nice black flecks of the roasted chiles. Yummy.
Dan labeled it one of the best sauces he's had ever. I also
tried Jeff's orange chipotle sauce. Great! Again, the
sweetness is low key and well balanced with the chipotle
flavor and the consistency is less thick than some, the
orange is subtle and very nice. This went really well with
turkey but I'm thinking it will be great on fish and some
other stuff, too. One of the more unusual sauces I've ever
had was his pineapple ginger hab sauce. Surprising combo
that works really well on shrimp but I'm sure there is more
to test it on, it has lots of potential. It also has
gorgeous color (golden yellow-orange) and good consistency.
His Jalapeno Heaven Salsa had unexpected heat for jalapenos
and great Mexican flavors. Tried it plain and mixed with
cream cheese so far and it was really good that way. Can't
decide which others to try next, but maybe the Fatali
sauce...or the sun dried tomato with habs and piquins.....so
much sauce and so little time...
No affiliation etc etc
Deb in Houston