Tomato condiment adds some zing

posted 02:59 PM 06/08
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Don’t you love a good idea? It gets even better when the idea comes to fruition on the dinner table.

Erica Lenker had a good idea: Take her all-natural tomato condiment that was a favorite holiday gift for friends and family and cook enough for everyone else to eat, too. After all, where would you find the extra time to grow or track down wholesome ingredients, prepare them, and take six more hours to cook down a small batch? Apparently Lenker manages to squeeze in the time between her other businesses, the family farm, and caring for three daughters and one husband. I think there are miscellaneous pets as well. Oh, and chopping tomatoes, and delivering and selling the sauce, too.

Thanks to her labors, you can now enjoy a spicy (or less spicy) mix of arbol chili peppers, organic tomatoes with seeds of nigella, cumin, fennel and brown mustard the consistency of a thick salsa. Plus a little sugar and spice. A spoonful mixed into my bowl of homemade grass-fed beef stew added a mouth- and tummy-warming zing. Use it lightly or liberally with eggs, roasted vegetables, sandwiches – and, well, just about anything that you might use with ketchup or salsa.

You can buy Saucy Goodness at both Olympia Food Co-ops and at the Farmer’s Market on Thursdays and Fridays. You also can conveniently shop online. Keep you eyes open for the retro label on the spicy version, and a plethora of tomatoes on the jar of the milder version. I saw one at a restaurant. Enjoy a jar or two of your own. Bon Appetit!

For more information:

The Saucy Goodness Company, Olympia; 360-259-6017; www.saucegoodness.net

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