the sauce

Some people bake Christmas cookies... we make holiday hot sauce.

Mark is the heart and soul behind this project. He selects the peppers to grow in our garden and then creates a sauce recipe which is different each year. I am more on the packaging and distribution end of things.

In the Spring Mark planted Bhut Jolokia peppers which are more commonly know as the Cobra or Ghost Pepper. These peppers are the world record holder for the hottest chili on Earth. I have zero tolerance for all things hot so I have not tasted this sauce however Mark says it's surprisingly NOT as hot as he thought it was going to be. He said it's the hottest sauce he's ever made yet completely edible and enjoyable. Yeah, he's pretty happy with it!


The pepper plants were so tiny back in June! (they are on the far left)

We collected peppers all summer long.

We had quite a few green peppers on the plants in October. Mark learned a trick to ripen this last batch of the crop by hanging them upside down in our garage window. It worked!


There was some fire roasting that occured out on the grill. I was out Christmas shopping so I missed that step.