Cheeze

David is an amazing cook. One of the things we share is a similar palate, we both love spicy foods! I think the moment we fell in love was while in Key West, Florida we went to a hot sauce shop and they set us up as if we were at a wine tasting, lining up tastes of amazing hot sauce from gourmet to fire out your ears hot.The shop owners encouraged us to go next door to a convenience store and buy a bucket of bud light and we spent the next hour trying tons of different varieties of unique capsaicin packed goods, we left that place more intoxicated on endorphins than the beer!

David makes these amazing spicy vegetarian re-fried style beans with lots of veggies: onion, tomato and garlic. He always separates some for Kenize before adding tons of  jalapenos and seranos to ours to kick up the heat! In his support of my new way of eating he made a huge batch of this versatile fare, for use on tostadas, burritos or as a side dish. I love me a bean and cheese burrito so to keep with the diet I bought some vegan pepper jack cheese today at Sprouts for dinner tonight and was able to enjoy one of my favorite foods, with some hot sauce of course! The vegan "cheeze" is definitely not as tasty as good old cow's milk cheese but it was a great alternative because it did have a nice melty texture . If I were to continue to eat this way the "cheeze" would certainly be an occasional treat because at $5.59 for 8 oz it's pretty pricey.

David and Alicia at Peppers of KeyWest 2008