Home At Last! with Patty Gironda

Don't let the pretty blue color fool you. . .this sauce packs plenty of heat!  This has proved to be so popular with my hubby, he's making me dinner, these days.  Roasted Chicken Wings with Fruit-flavored hot sauce, crispy fresh celery with my own recipe for Blue Cheese Dressing!  So, as the holidays loom, Ron and I will marinate our cornish hens in a milder version of this blueberry sauce and offer the bottle to those at the table who can handle the heat! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

Mixed Peppers and Blueberries Cranberry Conserve with Pears and Walnuts Flavored sparkling cranberry adds more flavor than water! With such a small family gathering this year, I decided to step out a little and serve an untraditional menu.  The menu is Blueberry Hot-Sauce Glazed Cornish Hens, Tuscan-style Roasted Potatoes, Sweet Potato Souffles, Minted Peas, Cornbread Dressing and my Cranberry Conserve with Walnuts.  I've started several of the components today and the delightful scent of blueberries, cranberries and hot, hot peppers collides with our noses as we enter the house! Would you believe that my earlier summer batches of Raspberry and Fig Infused Hot Sauces are gone?  I posted the pictures at the end of summer using fellow blogger, Susan Coggins' wonderful mixed bag of peppers.  We created a roast Hot Wing recipe especially for Ron-who is trying to lose a little weight!  The wings are his specialty now and he do...

Friend and fellow blogger, Susan Coggin, generously shared brightly-colored, garden-fresh peppers from Quail Hollow.  My bag was filled with dangerous-looking hot varieties laced with a few sweet peppers. Alone in my LA-BOR-A-TORY I fired up my bunson burners!  Into the little beakers, I threw a little of this and a little of that!  (Mostly garlic, herbs and spices) A sugary peach syrup from a previous blog was gently swirled into the smokey beaker and finally, the mixture thickened with the addition of two tablespoons of raspberry jam.

  I love sampling local foodstuffs and around our area we find alot of BBQ Sauces, jellies, bread and butter pickles and occasionally some really great cheeses. Sweet Grass Dairy is one of my favorite artisan cheesemakers and is located in right here in Georgia. I don't see many hot sauces but I have run across a few great ones. Being a Louisiana girl I'm pretty settled on Louisiana Hot Sauce-perfect for my crispy soft shell crab po-boys and consequently I don't tend to look much further. One surprise was a few bottles of Chef Boy Hidy Hot Sauce . I met Gary Waters at a party at the Botantical Gardens in Atlanta, years ago. A passionate foodie like myself, "Chef" introduced me to his hot sauce on an episode of Home At Last! Pleasantly hot with a well-rounded taste, I have used and enjoyed every drop of flavorful sauce. The Senoia Road Kill Hot Sauce is another new one. I found it in a shopping bag after a trip to a friend's antique shop in Senoia....