Tacodeli in Austin Texas makes a “Blended Jalapeno Salsa“. Had some at the house tonight. I said “I think I’ll write about this”. I sat down at the table to eat. Moments later I heard my wife cry from the kitchen “Ow! That’s food that hurts! It’s deceiving!”
It is a smooth sauce, that you might expect was based on sour cream. It looks cool and refreshing. But it’s got a bite. Pour it on!
I’ve been eating a lot of pickles lately. Dill. Only dill. A while back my wife found some spicy dills by Vlasic. I liked the bite (though it was subtle). Sadly, the pickle flavour was not as good as that of the normal Vlasic dill, so I haven’t gone back to them. What I have done, however, is to take a whole dill pickle, put it in a bowl, drop a bunch of jalapenos in, and voila! Spicy dill. I eat it with a fork and knife, which I admit is a bit weird. But weird is the price you sometimes have to pay for a nice spicy dill.
If I get something called “Trappey’s Red Devil Cayenne Pepper Sauce”, I’m expecting it to hurt some. We all know that the devil runs a place with a nasty reputation for a high heat index, so you think the Red Devil sauce is going to be hot, too. But the devil is bad, and the devil is crafty. Sauce named for him is going to trick you. Not even a hint of flame on my tongue. I literally poured this stuff so thick over a bowl of pasta that it was like spaghetti sauce, and I couldn’t distinguish any sensation of spicy heat at all. Dropped a bunch of jalapenos into the bowl to give it the kick I was looking for.