As you probably know, I’m a big fan of really spicy food. The best way to “pump up the volume” of my favorite Mexican dish is to add some hot sauce, so I enjoy trying different varieties – the hotter the better.

Julie’s parents recently got back from a trip to Hawaii and were kind enough to bring me a gift pack of tasty hot sauces from Hawaii! There are plenty of mediocre (or worse) hot sauces out there, so I was happy to find that these sauces are really quite good.

All three sauces have scotch bonnet peppers as their main ingredient. I wasn’t really familiar with that pepper, so I was surprised to find out that it is very like the habanero, the hottest pepper you’ll find at a grocery store, and just about the hottest pepper you’ll find anywhere. (In fact, the scotch bonnet and the habanero are the same species; you’ll have to ask my brother-in-law what is required for two different peppers to be the same species.)

Thanks for the great gift! The best thing about really hot sauces is that you can’t use much at a time, so they last a good long time! Frozen chimichangas for lunch aren’t so bad with a good hot sauce…