Blogging Ottinger (tim)Head cold & blended sauce
Well, my head cold is so strong that our blended sauce (red + green + ginger + allspice) doesn’t have any effect at all.
I doused my hamburger in it to add some flavor, but nothing much happened. When your head is bricked in, and you’re on decongestants and sprays and extra rest, and still can’t taste the hot sauce… well. I need to make a real sinus-blasting hot sauce, I guess. I wonder what I can do about that?
Earlier I added a teaspoon or so to potato soup, and it had a pretty profound effect. It was good in the chili too. It must be a pretty strong head cold. Of course, it’s had me out cold for 1/2 the day (or more).
For some reason, when you aren’t feeling well, hot sauce seems to really help you feel better. My old friend Alan E. used to go to La Bamba’s for a Mexican sausage burrito with extra hot sauce whenever he didn’t feel well. It could be a cold, tiredness, or a stomach flu, and that was his cure-all.
I have to admit, it seems to help. It usually helps to clear your sinuses, at least. But you always feel good after a nice little burn. Kind of “discomfort food”?
