Pass the hot sauce!

Hello friends,

Hot sauce is a recent addition to my life and my meals. When I grew up in Prince Edward Island tea was orange pekoe, lettuce was iceberg and hot sauce was Tabasco. Every kitchen had a kind of artifact of a bottle of the stuff. Sometimes it lived in a slightly yellowed box which was rarely opened. I know a drop went into the rare Bloody something cocktail or perhaps a miniscule amount in a kind of sauce (probably a sauce to be served with fondue) but I don’t remember it emerging otherwise. I think I had seen people sloshing it onto fried eggs in restaurants but I have to say that it never occurred to me to try that.

Then somewhere in the past decade or two hot sauce found me, or I found hot sauce! I love the stuff. I have jars of it; different flavours and colours. I reach for it with almost every meal. (not, so far, on oatmeal at breakfast but I might….)

One day I spotted Sriracha Revolver hot sauce in a Vancouver shop. It was hard to miss. There were three bottles on the shelf, in three gorgeous colours; bright green, luminous yellow/orange and a deep red. I took them all home and devoured them. Since then there are other great flavours in the line up too!

Recently I contacted Jordan Hocking who is the founder and the maker of Sriracha Revolver hot sauces and she invited me in for a chat. We met at the commissary kitchen in east Vancouver where she works and which is filled with dozens of people making delicious looking and smelling food!

You can hear our conversation in this episode of Listen with Sheryl MacKay. I am so impressed with Jordan’s creativity and her entrepreneurial spirit! And I loved hearing about the interesting peppers people drop off for her, including some that have filled her with trepidation!

You can listen to the podcast on this website or by using any of the usual podcast apps.

Take good care,

Sheryl