It has been a bit since I've returned to these pages for an update and I haven't had occasion to crack open a new bottle of sauce for some time. Mostly, I'm trying to clear through what's open before I head off to vacation, but also the food I'm largely eating does not lend itself well to the addition of hot sauce. I may be a chilehead, but I'm primarily after taste first and foremost and with a recent change in diet, opportunity for hot sauce has dwindled. Combined with the loss of being able to easily keep any at work, it makes uses for it a lot fewer and further between.
Let's be frank here a moment. Most of the foods that work best with hot sauce are things that are generally less than optimally healthy. I'm speaking here of fried foods and beloved pizzas and chicken wings and wonderful BBQ, though that one is not necessarily strictly a bad option. Since I eat out a lot at work and even sometimes on weekends, I try to temper this by having a lot healthier food at home. This works out to varying extents, but salads and hot sauce twixt the two never the twain shall meet. I also can't bring myself to take it out to restaurants or other peoples houses, as I think that practice is highly tacky.
So, while opportunity, as mentioned earlier, is light now and probably will continue to be so for the year, it's not as though I dislike it and have dispensed with it entirely or anything. It just continues to be a much slower pace, unless I decide to discard several of the opened bottles. As it is difficult for me to be wasteful in that fashion, probably I'll just continue to sludge along, though there are a few on the horizon I have some excitement about and I still troll nearly every one of the aisles at stores that I think might carry something new and interesting. I'm still looking, still have my eyes open, but let's continue to be honest here. If your wife embarks on a new diet, you're largely going along with her and given some moderate health issues she's having, it looks to be a lot later, if ever, that she gets off of this direction. I may start resuming taking some to work and building my lunches again, once things settle down, which will enable me to have a lot more opportunity (and I seriously miss it a great deal at work), but again, down the road.
In the meantime, if you're interested in my scribblings and also interested in wine, I invite you over to my other blog about wine and I'm also still doing the Yelp thing, too, both of which are linked to the right of this column.
