Year In Pictures: 2010/08/23 - Not-so-hot Sauce

[plonq]

It was too hot in the house to cook today so we decided to go try that new Mexican-style restaurant that opened near here. It was good. Not great, but good. atara ordered the chicken tostadas platter, and I opted for the chicken taco platter with a beef tostada on the side. The tacos were decent, but not great. I think they would have been much better if they had not plated them early because they were a bit soggy by the time I got them. On the other hand the beef tostada was delicious.

I washed it all down with a lime Jarritos - which was also quite good. They had a couple of hot sauces on the table for our use; a mild one, and a somewhat hotter one. The habanero sauce billed itself as XXXTra Hot Sauce, but a couple of those Xs were unwarranted in my opinion. It had a nice bit to it, but I've had much hotter sauces.



I shot this one by lying the camera on its side on the table and shooting blind. I thought that it composed itself well enough that I didn't bother with any cropping or straightening. I shot this with Aperture Priority, with the f/stop set to 2.0. The camera chose 1/60th of a second for the shutter. I had cranked up the ISO to 320 for this shot, but if I had known that the sun was going to come out from behind a cloud right before I took it, I'd have left it at 100. I sharpened it slightly, and adjusted the colour in software before posting it here.

Comments

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Valentina is my favorite hot sauce, but I like the black label (aka hotter) one better :)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I much preferred the Valentina as well; it had a wonderful flavour, but it was a tad on the mild side for my liking. I wish they'd had the hotter one for me to try.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Even the hot one is not the hottest hot sauce you'll find, but as you said... the flavor. It's just so delicious :)

[nrasser.livejournal.com]

There's two versions of El Yucateco, a red and a green. The green is the hotter one and has a sharp green pepper taste. The red is a bit milder and sweeter.

I used to think that El Yucateco was pretty hot. My tolerance has far surpassed that level now, thanks to living next to a great Thai place for a while...I could probably use El Yucateco like ketchup now. ^_^

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I've built up a pretty good tolerance for hot foods. On the one hand I miss the burn, but at the same time I notice the flavour of sauces a lot more than I notice the hot now.