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Review – Lucky Dog Hot Sauces

Lucky Dog Fire-Roasted Hot SauceSonoma, CA-based company Lucky Dog Hot Sauce is what Scott Zalkind started after his 6-plus-year hobby began to flourish. Zalkind fire-roasted chile peppers and garlic and combined them with other fresh ingredients into, in his words, “thick, savory and extremely versatile hot sauces” (that sounds good already!). He doesn’t use pepper mash at all; and although he employs a bit of dried chiles, most of the flavor is derived from the unique, quasi-smokey tones of roasted peppers.

I was eager to try these because of that fact. So were my friends Brian and Marilyn Meagher of Hot Sauce Daily, who agreed to post a review of their own of Lucky Dog Hot Sauces. So, after you read my take on these fiery products, I urge you to jump on over to their website to read what they have to say about Lucky Dog…

Review of 19 Different Unique Wing Flavors – St. Louis Wing Company

St. Louis Wing CompanyDuring my first report for the Chevy STL Keys promotion (more about that soon!), I decided to do a formal review on one of the most unique chicken wing eateries I’ve yet to come across, and I’m fortunate enough to have learned that it was located in the St. Louis, Missouri metro area where I call home.

I’m referring to St. Louis Wing Company, the brainchild of Chef Bobby Tessler. Instead of featuring multiple level heat sauces (you’ll find monikers such as no mild, medium, hot, and nuclear) like some wing joints or differently-flavored bottled sauces such as Buffalo Wild Wings, Chef Bobby takes a different approach. He whips up created-fresh-from-scratch sauces, glazes and marinades and will also apply herbs, spices and chopped and minced solid ingredients atop the already “tossed” wing pieces…