Dat'l Make Me Happy

Tea: Vanilla Jasmine

Music: Badfinger, "No Matter What"

Time: Night.

Warning: Shameless commercial plug upcoming.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a capsaicin junkie. (That's the stuff that makes hot peppers hot.) At any given time, I have at least four bottles of hot sauce open -- and that's not even counting the stack of miniatures I keep in my backpack.

One of my new favorites is Datil Pepper Gold, from Dat'l Do It. It's a Central American-style sauce, carrot-based, with the carrot's sweetness playing well against the Datil pepper's heat. I put a more than liberal dose on a fried egg sandwich tonight, and was struck by (a) how good the sauce is with eggs, and (b) how much I'm going to miss this bottle when it's gone.

(Fried egg sandwich at night, you ask? Hey, it's been a long day, and I was in need of some quick comfort food.)

Anyway: Long story short, you should get some of this. I've never seen it on its own, only as part of a five-bottle pack -- but then again, I've liked everything I've had from Dat'l Do It, so I doubt the other four bottles will disappoint.

(Yeah, I still have them. They're in the garage. Tea and hot sauce ... the stash goes ever ever on ... not that I'm complaining. I could be working through jars of sweet pickles. In a word, ew.)