(Artichoke Pizza drenched in hot sauce!)
I truly love spicy food. I am so into Thai curries, tasty hot Indian dishes, and Mexican food drowning in some sort of green sauce. Sauce is amazing, especially when spicy. I tend to be the person who douses my food in delicious hot sauce. In college, like most schools, the food was so meh that I used to carry a pocket sized TapatÃo in my purse. I believe that the varietals of hot sauces compliment certain foods. There is nothing worse than going to a restaurant and asking for hot sauce and the server brings you tabasco. I believe they should respond with we don't have hot sauce but we have Tabasco because it really is a category all on its own. Now I love Tabasco but its' Tabasco... nah what im sayin' .
One of my favorite mexican hot sauces, Cholula, makes the perfect breakfast hot sauce. Bless it's lil wooden top. It goes great on your eggy wegs in the morning, along with the potatoes, and any sort of veggie breakfast side dish. Im sure meat lovers would'nt be mad at Cholula if it grazed a bacon strip or two. It is also really good spicing up your hummus. MMM.. hummus. They have different flavors if you want to mix it up. I'm a sucker for traditional but the garlic one is good too!
El Yucateco hot sauces I'd say is a more traditional hot sauce jam. It can get really spicy with out compromising flavor. You will find it most likely decorating the tables of a good mexican joint. I once received the gift of a four pack of these from a friend after she traveled in mexico and I finished all four bottles. Yum.
Frank's Redhot is perfect for you wing lovers. I believe it is also a great hot sauce to go on mac and cheese or to soak your french fries with. I'm even going to go out on a limb and speculate that Foodswings, the vegan fast food eatery , uses Frank's on there mock chicken wings. That's why they taste so good.
Texas Pete's hot sauce would be the number two hot sauce for wings. It would be "they didnt have Frank's Redhot" hot sauce. I'm not mad at it , its perfectly good and I would use it without batting an eyelash.
Valentina makes the perfect Michelada. It's not too vinegary for your booze and the chillies are spot on to gulp up with a Pacifico, Tecate, Modelo especial or Corona depending on your preference (I ranked them in order according my preference).
Bufalo' hot sauce is muy bien. I love going to Lupes on 6th ave to enjoy their delicious burritos and soak it up in the tall familiar slender bottle of jalepeno Bufalo' hot sauce. It's distinctive neon coloring makes me think that is is giving my stomach lining a great big hug when I digest it. The dark rich smokey chipotle made by them is one of my favorites as well.
Sriracha is one condiment that is always in my fridge. Personally I think it goes good on everything, but it is especially complimentary to dumplings, noodle soups, rices, pizza, basically anything starchy. The cock sauce is assumed to be made in Asia but actually reigns from California. Its named after Si Racha a town in Thailand and was marketed towards Asian Americans becoming a staple in most Asian American restaurants. You used to only be able to pick it up in Ktown or Chinatown but not most grocery stores and even bodegas carry it. Sriracha 4 life!
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