When Louisiana’s Auguste Rouland visited our market stall at the Victoria Downtown Farmers Market this last Wednesday, April 4, 2012, he told us he already knew everything there is to know about hot sauces.
He’s from Baton Rouge, famous for its sauces piquantes and he was in Victoria with his wife who was attending a convention on farmers/public markets — she works for the Baton Rouge farmers market.
After tasting our Wildfire sauce, he admitted it was as good as anything he’d ever had down south. He particularly liked the name because in Louisiana he works on forest fire management.
Auguste then tried our medium Embers sauce, as well as our super hot Armageddon, and he liked both of those. He finally settled on Embers because, he said, he especially liked its subtle flavours and thought his wife would enjoy it just as much.
Thanks Auguste and good luck with the wildfires back home.
And, check out the link below for The Daily’s Karen Elgersma on the market in Market Square.
A hot topic at the Victoria Downtown Public Market
During April, you can find us at the Victoria Downtown Farmers’ Market in Market Square at the bottom of Johnston Street. The market runs every Wednesday, between 12am and 5pm. 
Starting the first weekend of May, you will also find us at the new Sunday Market at Bastion Square. The hours will be the same as they used to be when we were all at Government Street. It remains to be seen whether the wind is better or worse in this new location 
We will also be at Moss Street Market, again from May onward, and at the Sidney Summer Market, starting in June. As well, look for us at Oak Bay Night Market, dates to be announced and the Oaklands Sunset Series which take place at Oaklands Recreation Centre.
See you at any of these locations.
And, we have yet another sauce in the works – one that is for the absolute hottest of hot heads – one that is hotter than our Armageddon Sauce. It should be ready in a few weeks so come out and tell us what you think.
Liz and Jon (aka Dad)
Hot sauce fans who’ve been buying our Dad’s Westcoast Awesome Embers (medium) and Armageddon (extra hot) sauces at various markets around the island will be glad to know they’ve now made their debut in retail stores.
They’ve joined the lineups at Lifestyles Market on Douglas St and Oscar and Libby’s in Victoria, as well as at Market on Millstream in Langford, and at the Cowichan Valley Meat Market in Duncan.
Little Qualicum Cheeseworks outside of Parksville and both Niagara Grocery and Fairfield Market in Downtown Victoria will also be carrying them in the very near future.
If you’re a store owner and you’d like to start listing Dad’s Awesome products, we’ve now appointed Richardson Foods Group as our distributor, so get in touch with Jim Richardson to arrange deliveries.
Keep checking the site for other stores.
They look good enough to eat don’t they?
And they are. They’re all prime, ripened, fiery hot peppers destined for blending into our new überhot Dad’s Westcoast Armageddon sauce.
The fat orange ones are habañero chilis, among the spiciest of the spicy. They’re the ones responsible for that nice, slowly escalating burn in some of our sauces. There’s a whole lot more in Armageddon than in our original Wildfire .
Poking out in the middle is a red Medina pepper, which along with it’s cousins OrangeFlame and StarFlame, makes our Armageddon sauce überhot from the first moment it hits your tastebuds. They are derivatives of the cayenne pepper and have their parent’s distinctive flavour.
All hot peppers are chock full of vitamins, most notably Vitamins C and B, and they contain significant amounts of iron, thiamin, niacin, magnesium and riboflavin. And they’re low in calories, fat, and sodium, says the Wikipedia.
Our Armageddon Sauce goes well with any fish dish, particularly shrimp and salmon.
