We have been terribly negligent in promoting a truly fine product: JD Paternoster's HaHa Hotsauce. JD himself brought samples of his entire line, right to our doorstep. We gobbled them up, meaning to write about them immediately. . . but then our busy lives got in the way and we neglected to blog at all. Sorry, JD!
JD gave us four samples of his line to try out: Pyro Pineapple; Figgin' Hot Dippin' and Grillin' sauce; Fig and Chipotle BBQ sauce and Smokin' BBQ sauce, along with his not-for-sale but so very delicious homebrew straight from his garden. Because we were so eager to try all of the sauces right away (and then so delinquent writing about them. . . sorry, again), we initially tasted them all by dipping tortilla chips in them. This worked for the hot sauces, but not as well for the BBQ sauces, which need to be slathered on something more substantial than a chip.
Messy's favorite was the Fig and Chipotle BBQ sauce. It has a sweet, unique flavor that we hadn't had in BBQ sauce. We ended up making some Fig and Chipotle BBQ seitan sandwiches [pictured above] which were delicious, and might have been even better had we found a perfect complementary cheese (we had Green Meadows' Raw Milk Cheddar which was tasty, but not the perfect cheese for the sandwich).
Picky loved the super-spicy homebrew (Messy couldn't even go near it; even the Pyro Pineapple was too hot for her). Tons of habanero heat with a bit of citrus. Not for the feint of heart. A drop or two would be enough for most, but Picky likes a solid overflowing teaspoon full on egg sandwiches.
The Pyro Pineapple was a little too hot and fruity but would definitely please someone who enjoys fruit and spice. We made a dip out of the Pyro Pineapple by scooping a few tablespoons of sour cream into a bowl with a teaspoon of the hot sauce. Delicious with our Mexican feast.
There is no reason to buy hot sauce from some nameless chain grocery store when you could get your very own South Philly HaHa Hotsauce! You can find HaHa Hotsauce all around Philly and beyond in the stores listed here. You can also purchase them straight from JD's website here. As for sizing, the hot sauce comes in a 6oz. containers and the BBQ sauces come in 12oz. containers. Don't bother trying to get Picky to share his pint of homebrew, it's not for sharing!
[...] were wandering through the Whole Foods on South St the other day and we were happy to see the hotsauces we sampled, from HaHa Hotsauce, last year on the shelf! The Figgin Hot and Chipotle BBQ sauces were on the [...]