Travis (Travis Lockhart)

I love spicy food! I started experimenting with my own recipes back in 2012 as I began to find my need for fresh, spicy salsa increasing beyond belief. I just couldn't deal with grocery store offerings any longer. I hadn't done much cooking in general at this point in time, but quickly developed a passion of sorts after entering this exciting and creative realm via my spicy salsa recipe. Now I love making all sorts of Thai food, spicy jambalaya variants, numerous Mexican dishes, tons of pasta dishes, and the sort - anything that I can get away with spicing up for my wife and I (not that I won't make macaroni and cheese spicy, but just that not everyone's into that kind of thing. The list goes on and on...). Those entree-style recipes are not 100% my own, however, nor are they my specialties. What I'd like to share with you, instead, are the recipes for spicy sauces and light snacks that I created myself through trial and error - along with the products I found on Amazon that have made my journey so much of a better experience. I hope you enjoy trying these out for yourselves! Also, my thanks to my family, friends, and co-workers for assisting me with my spicy journeys. Your excitement and open-mindedness with trying my recipes-in-progress has helped fuel my passion.

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Measuring Spiciness - a Call for Change

Terminology used for describing spicy food is outdated and confusing. This page is an informative brief - and a call for change - in favor of a new, simplified approach with greater applicability to everyday spicy food consumption.

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How to Make Blazingly Spicy Homemade Salsa

My first and most favorite of recipes! If you're like me, you get tired of grocery store salsas FAST. They're too heavy on the tomato, they've been cooked before being bottled (hint - not fresh!), and they're bland and lack real heat. I am also a...

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How to Make Inexpensive yet Insanely Spicy Peanuts at Home!

This recipe was actually the result of a beach vacation. A town near this beach happened to host a variety of shops, one of which being a store specializing in peanuts - and one of their advertised peanut varieties was of the incredibly spicy sort....

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How to Make Deliciously Spicy Homemade Tzatziki

Tzatziki is great with meat, is an excellent dip for pita bread, and is an essential ingredient in gyro wraps. It's often thought of as a cooling dip, due to the yogurt content, but I think it works spicy as well! This isn't going to be deathly...

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How to Make Homemade Habanero Hot Sauce

Make your own hot sauce! It's fun, it lasts a long while, and you can make it as spicy and unique as you'd like :) This homemade habanero hot sauce recipe was something that I created just for fun and simply due to the fact that I love hot sauces...

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  Food and Cooking

  Measuring Spiciness - a Call for Change

  3 years ago

  Terminology used for describing spicy food is outdated and confusing. This page is an informative brief - and a call for change - in favor of a new, simplified approach with greater applicability to everyday spicy food consumption.

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  Food and Cooking

  How to Make Homemade Habanero Hot Sauce

  8 years ago

  Make your own hot sauce! It's fun, it lasts a long while, and you can make it as spicy and unique as you'd like :) This homemade habanero hot sauce recipe was something that I created just for fun and simply due to the fact that I love hot sauces...

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  1
  Food and Cooking

  How to Make Deliciously Spicy Homemade Tzatziki

  9 years ago

  Tzatziki is great with meat, is an excellent dip for pita bread, and is an essential ingredient in gyro wraps. It's often thought of as a cooling dip, due to the yogurt content, but I think it works spicy as well! This isn't going to be deathly...

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  3
  Food and Cooking

  How to Make Inexpensive yet Insanely Spicy Peanuts at Home!

  9 years ago

  This recipe was actually the result of a beach vacation. A town near this beach happened to host a variety of shops, one of which being a store specializing in peanuts - and one of their advertised peanut varieties was of the incredibly spicy sort....

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  Food and Cooking

  How to Make Blazingly Spicy Homemade Salsa

  9 years ago

  My first and most favorite of recipes! If you're like me, you get tired of grocery store salsas FAST. They're too heavy on the tomato, they've been cooked before being bottled (hint - not fresh!), and they're bland and lack real heat. I am also a...