Sunday was the big day of Joby’s 1st Annual Hot Sauce Contest and the weather made it an event only for the diehards.. we braved the cold and had a blast..(the bongits helped!) when the judging was over, Chappy’s Elbo Green had taken 1st place out of the 11 entries.. my Pineapple tropicalia took a respectable 5th place.. honorable mention goes to Bernie’s I.B.S. (Irritable Bowel Sauce).. a lethal cobination of habanero, tequila, pineapple, serrano, and probly qualudes.. it managed to kick all of our asses.. Neil is looking for you Bernie!

All in all, Joby put on a great event - humble beginnings of what is sure to become a yearly spectacle.. props to all involved..

flashback: the weekend started with a trip to Fiesta to get some sauce makins’: you gotta love fiesta, they have a great variety of fresh veggies and plenty of shit youve never seen before.. The tomatillos looked marvelous..we’ve never had a batch so ripe and untainted.. also a great selection of peppers, we got some serranos (a little off), arbol, habanero, chilaca, piquen, and a few others of the dried variety..I got some fruit for my carribean expiriment - pineapple and canned guava..

the next day, it was time to get down to bizness. we started with the traditional Chappy’s Elbo Green recipe, knocked that out in about 4 hrs. then me and Cabeza moved onto our respective solo expiriments..

Cabeza chose to do a pepper sauce of the tabasco/sriracha type.. he combined a number of peppers into a boiling vinegar pot. then blended, added brown sugar, and strained the mixture til it was a bottle of potent goodness… well done.

I deicided to make a mildly spicy, sweet sauce for fish and shrimp.. Pinnapple, cilatro, fresh diced arbol pepper, roasted, deseeded habanero, lime juice, and the canned guava with a little bit of the can syrup added to taste.. it was amazing, and more versatile than I had predicted.. it ended up going on my honeybutterchickenbiscuit later that night to rave reviews!

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