Saturday, October 9, 2010

result!

A few months ago while wandering around the local farmer's market my son dragged me to a stall from which he had been busily sampling their products. He made me try a number of different sauces from the range that they had for sale and they were incredibly good. Kids have a habit of liking things today but not tomorrow so we bought one jar of the Hot Thrilli Chilli sauce and took it home along with the cheese, beer and bread we'd already purchased.

Every day for the next three weeks he had Thrilli Chilli sauce on crackers for his school lunch and the jar was starting to look a little empty. Not to worry we thought because the farmer's market is next weekend and we can buy some more. Disaster! They weren't there. Or the following month when we tried again to replenish the supply. We searched for them on the internet but the web address on their jars was an inactive site. The jar had been eeked out, wiped clean, and finally consigned to the recycling bin with a sadness.

Today as we wandered into town the market was up and running and to his great joy they had returned! Chatting to the owner we found out that she'd been snowed under with work, the problems of cybersquatting, and that she now has an active website with an online shop, before we bought 3 jars to keep us going for the next month.

The hottest of the Thrilli Chilli sauces isn't going to win awards for burning people but then that isn't it's aim. Its vibrant mix of flavours has more tang than zing to it and is rich and full of flavours. Excellent cold on bread or crackers it also works to add depth of flavour to pasta sauces or cheese on toast. It gets my seal of approval.

Now if only I could recommend a beer to go with it .. .. .. ..

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