Love For Spicy Food

My love for spicy food started several years ago when I tried Thai food for the first time. Now I eat spicy food almost everyday and I can't get enough. I currently have about five different hot sauce in my kitchen. I have Tabasco, Tapatio, Sriracha (Rooster Sauce), Frank's RedHot Sauce, and a chili sauce I made specifically for Pho (noodle soup). The chili sauce I make includes fried chili paste with chili oil...so good!

The bottle with the pink cap is the fried chili paste.

This Tabasco is a mini size bottle....easily stored anywhere for you convenience. 

So there's benefits to eating spicy food:

1. Weight Loss - spicy food can boost up tasteless food when dieting. It also helps you loose weight by pumping up your metabolism. Capsaicin is the active component of chili pepper. Capsaicin has that burning effect that will speed up your metabolism, which then burns calories. 
2. Stronger Cardiovascular System - if you eat enough, the heat from the spicy food will increase the blood flow in your body.
3. Other benefits from eating spicy food includes: anti-cancer, improves digestion, arthritus, cold & flu, mood lifter, etc. To see more information visit 10 Health Benefits of Eating Spicy Food.

Foods I add these hot sauce or chili sauce to are pho (noodle soup), pizza, grilled chicken, chicken wings (hot wings), ribs, clam chowder, top ramen, etc. My husband is Hispanic and he puts hot sauce on everything! He even puts hot sauce in spaghetti....can you believe that :) BUT....I LOVE it when he makes his salsa and pico de gallo.

Please share some ideas involving spicy food. Thanks for reading!

Rozeta