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By: Joe & Linda on July 24, 2006- 5:15 am

From our California hot sauce shopping trip, here are a few gems we brought back to OH with us:

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We really strove to find some quality sauces or ones with unique ingredients. These are more likely to get opened & used rather than just sit on the display shelf. We picked up:

Marie Sharp’s Fiery Hot Habanero pepper sauce
Marie Sharp’s Grapefruit Pulp Habanero pepper sauce
Ashman’s Curry Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper sauce
Ay Que! Salsa Cacahuate Hot Sauce
Mama Africa’s Zulu Sauce, Sweet & Hot Kiwi Chilli

Marie Sharp’s has been one brand we’ve wanted to try for a while, so we’ll look forward to opening those. The Ashman’s is a Jamaican brand, and this sauce looks to be a fascinating combination of curry & scotch bonnet peppers. Mama Africa’s Zulu Sweet & Hot looks like it might be more sweet than hot, but we hadn’t seen too many hot sauces made with kiwi fruit so it was worth a few bucks to try it out. Cacahuate is peanut in Spanish, and this peanut hot sauce is made with chipotle and japone peppers. Not sure how that will taste, but it looked good enough for now. Stay tuned for our tasting notes on these.

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Not to be confused with hot sauce, this one just looked great for cooking. The Thai Green Coconut Cooking Sauce by New World Flavors also looked amazingly good, if you believe their combo of ingredients. This is a product made by our friends at RoJo’s Gourmet Foods, so we know their stuff is pretty damn good overall. We’ll have to find out what food we like this sauce used on best.

Shhhh! Be vewy vewy quiet! I’m hunting wabbits! Errr, hot sauce that is!


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3 Fiery Comments »

Dont be fooled! I lived in the West Indies (Caribbean) for 3 years and have been working there on and off for another 6. This sauce pulls in the traditional west indian flavor of habaneros, garlic, onion, thyme, green onions and mustard. The kicker is with the mango. Man this stuff is good! But it’s also a creeper — you think you are just eating this nice sweet tasting sauce, then BAM, the habaneros kick in. MMm..nothing like clearing up a stufy nose after a few spoonfulls of this stuff!

I honestly think that this sauce could even find a market in the islands! Gordon, contact me man, I got the hook ups!

Comment fired by Domenico Palombo — July 19, 2006- 10:01 pm


I just finished my bottle of

Ashman’s Curry Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper sauce

Where can I get some in California?

Thanks ED

Comment fired by Ed — September 29, 2007- 2:36 pm


I ALSO JUST FINISHED MY BOTTLE OF ASHMAN’S CURRY SCOTCH BONNET HOT PEPPER SAUSE AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE TO PURCHASE IT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

Comment fired by PAT — December 14, 2007- 12:45 pm


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