Spicy Foods

vlynnvale

Can't get enough of them! To me, anything and everything is great with some Siracha, but things like that are killing my sodium intake. It's always close to being over the recommended amount if not right under it.

Anyone else have the same spice obsession? Is there a healthier way?

Or should I just sign up for Hot Sauce Anonymous? :embarassed:

mikejacobs1958

I am with you, all the way there !
The hotter the better !

I even remember in my drunken state many many years ago, drinking a small bottle of Tabasco sauce in a pub, for a free round !
That's why my brain is so frizzled !!!!!

Tat2dDom624

I have one bottle of Sriracha at home, and one at my job. To me that's the best hot sauce!

neurochamp

I'm a HUGE fan of Thai chili garlic sauce...but I try to use it in moderation because of the sodium. For a lower-salt spice fix, I head to our local European-style market (anywhere with a good produce section will do) and grab a handful of either the teeny tiny Thai chile peppers or larger cayennes. Both add a great kick when chopped up and added to food while it's cooking, but they also dry *really* well to keep long-term - just use a needle and thread to pull a string through the base of the pepper's stem, stringing as many peppers as you like into a garland, hang in a sunny window, and wait until they're shriveled and dry. Then twist off a pepper from the string, chop it up, and chuck it in whatever you're cooking (chili, stir-fry, scrambled eggs...). Pure chile pepper heaven :bigsmile:

vlynnvale

Ohh, great idea - thanks!!

vlynnvale

Ps. Glad I am not alone in the spicy world!

3LittleMonkeyMom

Nope you are not alone! Love spicy foods. I unfortunately limit my hot sauces because of the sodium content. Booo...

tripitena

Although I consider Tabasco an all-purpose gourmet sauce, the salt makes it a no no. Instead I used roasted Hatch green chile or dried New Mexico red chile pods (prepared) almost daily. I make my own pica de gallo, salsas and sauces and keep some in the fridge all the time. Hotter is better but not if it sends your blood pressure screaming through the roof.

nortx

Somehow, and I don't know why, but when I eat spicy foods, I can't stop eating and even after I have consumed what ever is in front of me I need to scrounge around for something - anything else to eat. That's why I can't buy the spicy V8 that I love. I would drink the whole bottle in one day and maybe check the grocery receipt to see if possibly I bought another one!

vlynnvale

Hotter is better but not if it sends your blood pressure screaming through the roof.

Good point. Noted!

I've never tried Spicy V8, but I just looked it up and the low sodium version only has 140 mg of sodium. I may need to throw this on the grocery list next week.

laus_8882

Yum, love spice! My favourite meal ever has got to be tofu and veg stirfried with tiny, potent chilis and thai basil. Mmm, so delicious.

Hot sauces are yummy (I like the Nandos super hot one or, for less heat, Cholula) but when I don't want the salt in my meal I just opt for a fresh chilli or some dried cayenne.

vlynnvale

Ahhh, that stir fry sounds so good!

iLoveMyPitbull1225

I'm with you too. Hot sauce anon....

I would drink hot sauce. I hide a bottle of it at my desk.

shutterbug282

Love spicy food!
I use dried chilli flakes or fresh chillis, I only use hot sauce when I can spare the sodium

TheVimFuego

Spice Central here, I love my tabasco and go through a ridiculous amount of Cayenne Pepper.

Spicy scrambled eggs bacon and cheese rock

sathor

I use things that make Tabasco look and taste like water. I used to mix a certain one with ketchup for fries, a drop of that ketchup would be more than anyone around me could handle. Personally, I have a canister of 'Slap ya Mama hot' seasoning powder i put on a lot of things, like Pizza, and I think i will be taking the select reserves I pickup up last month to dinner where I will get a chicken sandwich. That place has some standard hot sauce, but I am tired of that pansy stuff.

PrinnyBomb

I love sriracha! I'm not giving it up LOL

And cholula. Tasty

pinkupooh

I love spicy food as well, but I don't add ready made sauces all the time. I make very spicy indian curries from scratch with fresh thai green chilis, ginger, garlic and onion, tomato. This is the base items I start with and then add all dried indian masalas like red chili powder, garam masala, etc and then chick peas, kidney beans, chicken, hard boiled eggs, or anything else I want to cook in that curry...:)

BurtHuttz

Crushed red pepper and cayenne powder can create some pretty intensely spicy stuff with no impact in terms of sodium or calories.

brutalbaby

I am always eating spicy foods, I cant live with out. I love the Econa Hot pepper sauce, but when cooking ill use finger chiles or jalapenos

TheVimFuego

I love spicy food as well, but I don't add ready made sauces all the time. I make very spicy indian curries from scratch with fresh thai green chilis, ginger, garlic and onion, tomato. This is the base items I start with and then add all dried indian masalas like red chili powder, garam masala, etc and then chick peas, kidney beans, chicken, hard boiled eggs, or anything else I want to cook in that curry...:)

The issue for we with the ready made sauces is the added sugar, I much prefer to cook from scratch too.

Just reminded me, I have 2 fresh chillies almost ready to pick in the garden ... Yum ...

sjohnny

Love hot stuff. I always have sriracha, two or three kinds of tobasco, and a couple of other hot sauces in the house. I really enjoy fresh chilies and put them in all kinds of stuff. I grow my own chile pequins and jalapenos. I've pickled jalapenos and made jalapeno jelly and I've also made my own chipotles. I leave a lot of the pequins on the plant until they turn red and then dry and crush them to sprinkle on stuff.

jcpmoore

Add some fresh ginger to your hot sauce fun. It has it's own kick and will add to the spice-o-rama joy and it's no sodium.

vlynnvale

Sounds like I just need to do some more home cookin'.

laus_8882

Oh my, just remembered why I don't buy pickled jalapenos anymore - I eat the entire jar in one sitting. I pay for it the next day but goodness it's worth the pain.

KiltFuPanda

If you're concerned about sodium and still want the heat, then go for a hotter sauce - I'll use anything from Tabasco to Blair's Death series based on what I'm cooking.

My family's one of those "you gotta be nuts" groups. I go for stuff that equates to liquid fire (there's nothing like doing the two-drop per chip hot sauce sinus cleaner), my wife is more moderate - she goes for habanero sauces. My son loves Tabasco on his scrambled eggs - not bad for a toddler.

I posted a pic of my collection in the last hot sauce thread, but I'll refrain here - all I need to say is that we've got about 70+ sauces on the shelf now and I'm always on the lookout for new ones.

sksummers61

I like hot and spicy as well, grow a number of different Thai and chili peppers. I harvest the peppers then dry them, grind them up into a powder that makes an incredible seasoning. Gives you the kick without the sodium.

I'm just finishing a batch of smoked peppers, 8 hours smoked with hickory, 7 days drying, makes a great spicy/smokey seasoning.

KiltFuPanda

And to the guy who drank a bottle of Tabasco while drunk: I had a waiter bring me some hot sauce for a steak I had ordered, and he brought out a little cup of something that seemed like Tabasco or Texas Pete. I took one sniff, tasted it, and drank the cup in front of him. Next time, I bring my own stuff.

tadpole242

Homemade Dorset naga jelly on fried egg. :Worldsgreatestfood:

senyosmom

maybe find other hot spices (instead of sauces) that have little sodium. What about red pepper?

LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo

OMG YESSSS.. count me in! I love spicy foods of all kinds as long as it is spicy.

To be honest I can't eat without raw onions, garlic plus 6 pieces of chili peppers or 3 pieces of jalapeno peppers either mixed in with my food or just on the side. Food taste bland to me without those important ingredients. No joke.