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Bloody Mary With Two Kinds of Hot Sauce

Saucy Mama — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:25:29 +0000

We are experiencing a massive heat wave here on the East Coast, and are looking for fast ways to cool down. You may already know that hot sauce actually can cool you down, but when it’s too hot to cook, what do you slather your sauce on? How about a nice, cold Bloody Mary? You don’t need a mix to make your own Bloody Marys at home, and in fact, as true with many things, Bloody Mary’s made from scratch are a lot better than the ones from a mix. We found this recipe online that uses both red and green hot sauce. I’m going to try Crabenero and Uncle Brothers All Sauce No. 9 in mine.

Bloody Mary Recipe
Serves 1, but you can scale it up or down as needed. Let us know how you like it, and what kinds of sauce you used!

1 oz Vodka
3 oz tomato juice
2 red hot sauce
2 green hot sauce
1 dash Worcestershire sauce
0.5 oz lemon juice
1 pinch salt
1 pinch peppers
1 stalk celery

Add all ingredients except celery to a glass or cocktail shaker. Pour back and forth between two mixing glasses.
Strain into an ice-filled glass. Garnish with celery. Enjoy!

Great BBQ Chicken

Saucy Mama — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:26:31 +0000

I just found this great BBQ Chicken recipe online from Demopolis Times, a little newspaper from Alabama. What I really liked about it is that it calls for hot sauce of your choice, and you can adjust the amount you add (as long as it’s between 1/4 and 1/2 a cup). It would also be fun to add a couple of your favorite sauces! I also think it would be good on other cuts of chicken as well. I’m definitely going to try this one out over the holiday weekend. Let me know if you do too!

Buffalo Chicken Breast

1 stick unsalted butter

2 cloves garlic, minced

8 tsp plus 2 tbsp ancho chili powder

one fourth cup hot sauce (you can make it one half cup if you like it hot)

2 tbsp honey

salt and pepper

4 chicken breast

2 tbsp plus 2 tsp ground cumin

canola oil

Preheat the grill to medium; make sure the grill is ready for cooking over indirect heat.

In the kitchen while the grill is getting hot, melt butter in medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in the 2 tablespoons ancho powder and heat for 10 seconds. Stir in hot sauce and honey and season with salt and pepper. Remove about 1/4 cup for garnish, and keep both portions warm.

Season each side of the chicken breasts with 1 teaspoon each ancho powder, and cumin, and the salt and pepper. Drizzle canola oil over the both sides. Grill over indirect medium heat, about 5 to 7 minutes.

Flip the chicken, keeping it on indirect heat, and brush with a good amount of the hot sauce glaze. Cover and cook, brushing occasionally with sauce, until cooked through, about 5 minutes.

Top with blue cheese dressing or ranch for that truly buffalo style taste.

NPR 2010 BBQ Books

Saucy Mama — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:30:40 +0000

NPR picks a list of summer books each year. This year’s cookbook list featured two great BBQ books – Planet BBQ and BBQ 25. The whole article can be found here: NPR 2010 Cookbooks.

Head to Head Sauce Competition

Saucy Mama — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:13:55 +0000

This weekend I pitted two sauces against each other: Uncle Brutha’s Allsauce No. 9 and The Boulder Hot Sauce Company’s Smokey Serrano. I made a quick open faced sandwich with:

Sourdough bread
Swiss Chard
Garlic Scapes
EVOO.

Toast the bread. Heat oil in pan. Chop chard and scapes and saute them in the oil until tender. Arrange on top of bread, salt to taste and enjoy!

I put Uncle Brutha’s on one side of the “sandwich” and Boulder Company’s on the other. It should be noted that I have tried both and liked both equally. First, I tried the Smokey Serrano side, and while it was good, the components of the sauce that I liked so much on my egg sandwich the other day were missing. The swiss chard was too mild to stand up to the hot sauce, and all I tasted was heat. The sweet, smokey flavors were gone. The Uncle Brutha’s was a different story. This sauce, though still plenty hot, went really well with the mild vegetable. The cilantro, ginger, and heat were all present with each bite, but none were over powering.

For the swiss chard sandwich challenge, the winner hands down, was Uncle Brutha’s Allsauce No. 9.

World’s Greatest Sandwich Improved With Sauce!

Saucy Mama — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:48:09 +0000

For my first sauce taste test I selected The Boulder Hot Sauce Company Smokey Serrano. I know I said I might try each one on scrambled eggs, but I already cheated and used this sauce on a sandwich. I opened the top and gave the sauce a long sniff, it smells a little bit like chipotle, smokey and peppery, with strong undertones of garlic and vinegar. I put a bit on my finger and tasted it. Wow, it seemed really hot to me, (remember I’m a newbie)but, I immediately wanted more.

Next, I prepared my sandwich, this is probably my favorite sandwich, I make it quite often – it’s good for any meal, really. The inspiration comes from Thomas Keller’s “World’s Greatest Sandwich” which was featured in the movie Spanglish. Anyhow, this is what you need:

New and Improved World’s Greatest Sandwich:

2 slices of sourdough bread
1 egg
1 small tomato, sliced
1/2 cup (good sized handful of greens)
cheddar or other sharp cheese
mayo
salt and pepper
hot sauce

Slice the cheese and put on the bread, put in toaster oven or under broiler until the bread is crisp and the cheese is melted. Fry the egg until cooked, but yolk is still runny. Slather one side of bread with mayo generously, then shake some hot sauce on there. Top with tomatoes, lettuce, egg, and bread with cheddar. Enjoy! This sandwich is also excellent with bacon. Because really, what isn’t?

I put what I thought would be a lot of hot sauce on the sandwich, but the heat that I initially experienced by licking some sauce off my finger was greatly tempered by the ingredients. I ended up putting a lot more sauce on there. The smokey spiciness of this sauce went perfectly with the egg, cheese and veggies. I had been a firm believer that the World’s Greatest Sandwich could not be improved, but yes, yes it could. I will never make this sandwich without hot sauce again!

Welcome to our new Online Community!

Saucy — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:31:49 +0000

We would like to welcome you all to our new online community! Within the next few days, we’ll start posting blogs, and we encourage you all to join and be a reviewer! We also have debuted our new forum, which is still under development. It is fully functioning, just not looking so pretty yet…..

Be sure to check out our new ONLINE SHOPPING AREA, where you can find all you hot needs…..including some great holiday gift ideas such as our Monthly Hot Sauce Clubs, where the happy receipent will receive 2 hot sauces each month personally selected by Saucy herself. These can be customized to meet every taste bud.