As I write this, I’m eating, for breakfast, a parfait made with (among other things) close to a tablespoon of cayenne pepper and 11 hearty shakes of 650,000 Scoville unit jolokia pepper hot sauce. (The cayenne pepper hits quick. As soon as it hits the tongue. The jolokia peppers take a bit before the heat starts. So, I like to balance the two.)
Last night I made a 7-layer bean dip also with cayenne and the same hot sauce. The day before that, egg salad with… you guessed it: cayenne and jolokia hot sauce. Most of what I eat, I add really spicy stuff to it.
AMA!
Wow! Thanks for such a great reply!
I used to have stomach issues in uni when I was eating a lot more bread. I never really did anything about it, but it seems to have died down now as my diet naturally changed. I’d never heard of an elimination diet before so that makes sense to narrow down exactly what’s causing it.
It’s really fascinating how the same combinations of food can affect people in such different ways.