Sriracha Inspiration

Back in October I was, once again, googling for spicy pickles when I killed two birds with one stone. I found a hilarious new blog AND these intriguing spicy pickles made with Sriracha Hot Sauce, or "Rooster Sauce" as I've always called it. "Mr Dave" of the Ridiculous Food Society of Upstate New York really caught my attention and he's continued to win my admiration with posts like: "Mr. Dave is No Longer a Bologna Virgin". But ANYWAY*, when I first discovered rooster sauce I went a little overboard and kind of put it in everything I ate. I added it to spaghetti, slathered it on pizza and pretty much used it as a ketchup substitute. And then I just walked away.

But after seeing this amazing recipe and following up on it a few weeks later when he declared the pickles were awesome I knew I had to revisit Sriracha.

But it looks like lots of people are already beating me to it. I saw on Facebook a couple of weeks ago that Rick of Rick's Picks "discovered a new use for Sriracha" so I KNOW he's a got a trick up his sleeve and then when my friend and fellow blogger down in Memphis posted this about Sriracha Carole H left a recipe in the comments section where she takes a jar of store bought pickles and adds Sriracha, sugar and onions to the jar.

I can't wait to try my own recipe the next time I pickle...what else has everyone out there been adding Sriracha too... *(besides bologna)?

PS-Here's a great article in The New York Times about the history of rooster sauce, written by a fellow Southerner,John T. Edge of Oxford MS nonetheless.