Gunked Up

Currently on a pasta streak, had mac 'n cheese 'n hot sauce one day and shells 'n cheese 'n hot sauce another. I'm so creative.

Mac n' Cheese                                                             Shells n' Cheese


One of the troubles that always crops up is the issue of the the hot sauce cap. Usually with the kind of cap used to seal the bottle and the kind of slow pour needed for such spicy foods there is a residue left on the bottle. As sauce gets all over the bottle it makes it difficult to handle. I usually wipe the bottle top off as much as I can every once in a while. This means I'm wasting valuable delicious sauce. Since I am trying to eat as much of it as I can with this experiment I have been avoiding wiping away the gunked up top.

This has lead to an epic mound of dried sauce.

I am going to wipe it off but it feels like a waste and like cheating. Good thing I'm not a scientist, otherwise I'd be worried about losing my funding.

Sometimes I Eat On A Box.

I have to say I am making some good progress on this bottle. I'm about an inch down from when I started, things are moving along quite well. Overall I have to say I'm enjoying this experiment, all my meals have that delicious burn that I enjoy so much.

My chosen hot sauce, Dave's Insanity is not the hottest in the world, but it's a solid "Extreme" hot sauce. It has a nice flavor and of course plenty of kick. There are so many hotter sauces on the market, but it usually requires ordering online, paying for shipping then waiting around. For instant gratification a brick and mortar store works really well. I bought this guy at Cal Tor with a dollar off coupon so the price was nice and it was close-by. So, Insanity Sauce it is, I really like Ultimate Insanity and really really want to try the Ghost Pepper sauce, but alas I'll have to save it for the future.

This was veggie-chili with mashed potato and cheese. I have to say it was really good. I worked up a nice sweat eating this one.

This was a box dinner I had, meaning I ate my dinner on a box. It's all green and looks very nice, but below is two burritos, chili and cheese. The topping is guac, celantro and green peppers. The hot sauce on this one was a little more hidden.

Almost A Spicy Omelette

I like a good omelette, but I prefer making them at home because I can put what I want in it. The problem is that I don't make 'em very good. It always ends up being "Eggs With Stuff In It" rather than a proper restaurant brunch-quality omelette. I think twice I got the integral flip right. I know what my problem is, I just want to put too much stuff in it and then its heft destroys the damm thing.

The cheesy, guacamole bread did work out quite well though. The bloody looking red parts are Dave's.

Sandwich Time

Sandwiches were king this weekend. Spicy chili dogs and spicy Harris Teeter brand hoagie over the weekend. I get on food streaks and I seem to be on a sandwich streak right now.  I bought a pack of hoagie rolls, so interesting things, sandwich things, are bound to happen.

Harris Teeter Brand Veggie Sub, four drops of Insanity sauce.

Veggie Chili Veggie Dogs, the hot sauce is hard to see but it's there, quietly kicking it up a notch. 

Thinking about it, this could have been called the "What is Hot Sauce Good On?" blog. The answer, of course, is everything but I could have tried to prove it. I see a possible side project on the horizon. 

My current sauce level is above the "P" in Heart/Respiratory Problems

Sausages and Facts.

The hot sauce adventure continues with a veggie sausage lunch with english mustard and three dallops of Dave's. 

Did you know that,  

• Insanity Sauce was invented in College Park, Md at a restaurant called Burrito Madness as a way to get rid of drunks at the end of the night. GO TERPS!
• Blair of Blair's Death Sauce got started the same way on the Jersey Shore, fist pump.