This morning I jarred up a new batch of Curious Farm Chili-Garlic-Ginger Sauce for tomorrow at the Beaverton Farmers Market.

I love all the products I make, but I’m really excited about this sauce.  It has concentrated heat from the chili flakes — which have some meaty sweetness to them, too, not just fire.  The garlic gives the sauce a round, earthy warmth, and there’s just enough ginger to add sweetness and lift.

The sauce hits all of the taste spots on the palate — sour, pungent, sweet, bitter, and salty — and those flavors linger in just the right way.   Even better, because Curious Farm’s Chili-Garlic-Ginger Saunce is live-cultured,  it’s still full of probiotics, anti-oxidants and raw goodness.

“The Sauce” (and it needs a name so come taste some at the booth soon and help me come up with a lively name) is unlike anything I’ve ever tasted.  It’s not quite a salsa — though it could be used wherever one would use salsa or tabasco.  It also is different from the fermented chili sauces available in Asian groceries.  There’s more flavor dimension in this “Sauce,” and that might be because it’s still alive and hasn’t been shelf-stabilized.

Come give it a try at the Beaverton Farmers Market some Saturday!  A 9-oz jar is $6.50, and — if you bring me back the jar — I’ll give you $1 off your purchase next time.