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My wife was born and raised in Fall River MA, where there is a large Portuguese population (tho she is French). After we were married she introduced me to two Portuguese sausages that I still love - linguica and chourico. She also brought home Portuguese sweet bread in a big round loaf, which is excellent with thick slabs of real butter!
We use the sausages in many ways, particularly at our annual 4th of July clam boils. They (either one) add just the right flavor to the clams, potatoes, sweet corn, seaweed, etc. It wouldn't be the same clam boil without those sausages.
I buy my linguica from a local New Bedford Portuguese meat market/deli that makes their own. With theirs, you can get mild or spicy. The linguica is pork sausage casing. The chourico is beef sausage casing. It's otherwise the same. I usually buy spicy linguica since the smaller sausage is easier to slice before cooking with it.
The other classic Azores/Portuguese classic:
Kale soup - I use turnip instead of potato. Freezes better. Mine starts with pork shoulder simmered for hours as the stock base. Onion. Garlic. Linguica. Beans. Fresh kale at the end.
I'm more into rich-spicy than burning hot-spicy. For Indian or Thai, I ask for "medium" which ordered by a white guy is pretty toned down. My go-to in Indian restaurants is the saag or palak selections which usually come out very mild. When I make it at home, I use an Indian grocery store garam masala blend as the spice base along with fresh ginger, tumeric, and cumin seed that has a heck of a lot more heat than what I get in a restaurant. I usually do shrimp & cubed paneer at home. My go-to Thai is duck choo chee or red curry which is similar.
I love spicy so much. Sichuan food, especially, also Indian food - YUM.
But my current favorite is in no way gourmet - Shin Ramyun noodle soup. When I bought it the first time, the shop owner tried to talk me out of it.
I should stop eating this because 1) I went vegetarian otherwise and this is not vegetarian; 2) I need to reduce sodium and this is more than my daily allowance.
Golly we just love spicy period. I guess my favorite is a good Asian dish but also love any Mexican food accompanied by a super nice salsa, preferably home made.
I love this topic, although I have gotten away from eating as much spicy stuff as I used to. The reason for that is that since I am retired, I am not going to lunch (usually in the local "Chinatown") with people who like spicy foods.
This is a joke, but has some truth to it: I got into spicy Chinese food by going to lunch with co-workers in the "New Chinatown) area of Houston back in the 80s. (That area is huge now and is a culinary treasure.) One of my colleagues was an Indian guy who would order his dish (gung bao chicken or mopo dofu) "extra special hot". When I was in line behind him at the counter, they would sometimes make my order the same way. I became kinda addicted to it, despite what I call the air-conditioning effect -- i.e., my scalp would feel cold, i guess because of the sweating induced by the capsaicin in the peppers.
I really love spicy Penang-style curry, which an earlier poster mentioned. Also, spicy Indian foods served with cooling yoghurt and nan.
As far as "Mexican food" goes, I tend to love more of the actual regional cuisines from there, which (I think) don't generally involve a lot of heat. (Despite what people in the US think.) Despite that, I've had a lot of wonderful dishes from there that involve chiles. I have an ongoing love affair with various dishes involving poblano peppers, more because of the wonderful flavor they can have than the heat level.
I LOVE spicy food. I don't know if it's a Southern thing, but I grew up eating jalapeno peppers whole at an early age. I add it to lots of my foods for taste and spice. I request medium to high spicy foods when eating out cause I love the taste. Bring it on!
I like spicy soups and curries. Also adding jalapeños for that extra kick.
I don't have a favorite. I like spicy foods generally. I add jalapenos to things. I like chicken fajita salads, spicy soups, spicy baked chicken. I like a kick in foods. Except for salt, since I watch sodium intake.
My favorite is probably screechin' hot Buffalo chicken wings. I prefer to make them myself, because I don't coat the wings with breading, like they often do in restaurants... just fry them 'til crunchy & almost blackened & douse with Tabasco & hot wing sauce.
But, I like everything spicy... love Indian food & although I haven't had it in a few years, I guess I don't order it properly, cuz I've never had it spicy. Good to know, cuz I've always thought of it as mild food. Still, it's 1 of my faves. Mexican's wonderful, too.
Oh, just put me down for I like everything hot & spicy!
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