Fire in your mouth
A bottle of this local chili sauce will spice up your dinner
Photographer Erika Yamaguchi-Garcia has always wanted to create her own chili sauce. When her husband Chuck Garcia brought home a jar of chili from his trip to Senegal, they both tried and liked it. However, the jar bore no list of ingredients. “Then we had a trip with our friends to Bali, and the first Balinese meal we had came from a street cart, served with this incredible chili sauce. That really pushed Erika to make her own recipe,” Garcia says. And thus, No Bullshit Homemade Chili No. 1 was born.
No Bullshit Homemade Chili No. 1 is pretty straightforward. The piquancy explodes as soon as it lands in the mouth, but it doesn’t persist, allowing you to put more on whatever food you have in hand.
The chili sauce is made with locally grown chili peppers, including siling pansigang, labuyo, and bird’s eye chili. “As much as possible, we want our products to be all locally produced to support our farmers,” the couple says. The final product goes into a bottle that they themselves had hand-painted. With so much thought put into the creation of each bottle of sauce, it’s just proper to call No Bullshit Homemade Chili No. 1 Yamaguchi-Garcia and Garcia’s hot lovechild.