Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
(Note: all recipes have an ad-free, text-only printable/downloadable version at the very bottom of each post.) Shito is often called the ketchup of Ghana, and once you try it, you’ll understand why. This spicy Ghanaian chili sauce shows up on everything from fried plantains and jollof rice to grilled fish, […]
My son’s growing up to be a little hothead—in the best way possible. This year, he was determined to grow a variety of peppers, and he fell in love with cayenne. Combine that with his “insane” love of mango, and we had the perfect excuse to dream up this fiery, […]
Last year I had the unbelievably good fortune to spend a couple weeks in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, it was only in the last few days of my trip that I discovered a sauce there called “Lizano Salsa” (Lizano Sauce, pronounced like “Liz-Ah-No”, so you can pronounce my Insane in the […]
This delicious hot sauce is also super versatile. You could have it on ribs, burgers, chicken (hello wings!), in stir fries, and more. But it’s also simply divine on top of some vanilla (or berry) ice cream. Beware that one is dangerously addictive. The other fun part of this recipe […]
This is it folks, my very own, currently one-of-a-kind (so it appears) recipe for hot sauce that tastes just like delicious peach cobbler. Except after the initial cobbler flavor, your face melts with the fiery inferno of orange habaneros (or whatever orange hot peppers you choose… Scotch Bonnets are widely […]
Each summer I grow a lot of cucumbers to make all kinds of pickles. Of course, several of the pickle recipes I developed can be found on this site. Mostly though I just throw different herbs and things in that are available from my garden at the time I pick […]
First of all, of course a hot sauce named “Chicken & Waffles” should be absolutely delicious on a plate of chicken and waffles. That might be more meta than my taste buds can handle but I’m going to have to try it! (After all, my “Hot Apple Pie” hot sauce […]
Just look around on this site and you’ll quickly see I have a great love of pho (pronounced “fuh” and almost bordering on “fur”), the now iconic Vietnamese noodle soup which is often spiced up with a healthy dose of sriracha sauce. I love pho so much I even created […]
Tacos. Steak. Enchiladas. Soup. Breakfast. Burritos. Breakfast burritos. What doesn’t spicy green sauce go on? I first started making homemade red and green salsas almost 20 years ago when a roommate got into it and proceeded to get me hooked. We were frequently buying all those commercial pre-made salsas you […]
That’s right! This post is for two – count ’em – two pineapple kimchi recipes. The cubed pineapple kimchi (kkakdugi) is so delicious, you’ll be lucky if you can resist eating it all before the blending stage to make it an epic sauce. Kkakdugi normally is the cubed, firm & […]