Hot sauces, spices and foods

[Ravenshire]

I grow own pepper and am crushed that my red savina habaneros died this winter. Fortunately, I seeded a couple pepper before using them and kept the seeds. I'll be starting them in the next couple weeks.

Still, my jalapeño plant is doing well, along with my regular habanero. I'm going to try planting some serranos as well. That will give me a full heat range from bells all the way to the red savinas. I would consider ghost peppers, except that once you get past the heat, they're awfully bitter.

Yea I'm not a huge fan of ghost peppers  by themselves... had a ghost pepper pizza once and while it wasn't insanely hot it definitely had some heat to it but it didn't taste great. I love love love habaneros...

you make me want to start a garden

If you want red savinas, you'll have to either find a good specialty shop (I haven't managed yet) or start that garden. Be careful with them though. The guy at the nursery where I got my plant told me they were 30% hotter than the orange ones. I can believe that of the dragon's tongue peppers (another really good habanero hybrid) I bought the same day. The red savinas rate between 300 and 400 thousand scovilles where the orange ones you can get at the supermarket run 120-130 thousand. The red savinas do have a slightly sweeter taste (once you're past the heat) as well so they're becoming my go-to hot pepper.

As you can tell, I love spicy foods. I don't typically bother with store bought hot sauces any more Home made is soooooo much better (and hotter). The one exception I make is Cholula because it has such a wonderful flavor for cooking.