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Taylor Swift Seemingly Dropped A ‘Reputation’ Easter Egg When Announcing Early Access Showings Of ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’

Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs are scheduled to host the Denver Broncos on Thursday, October 12, but Taylor Swift appears to have other plans. On Wednesday, October 11, Swift confirmed that her Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film will enjoy early access showings across the US and Canada on Thursday, one day ahead of its scheduled October 13 theatrical release.

“PREMIERE DAY,” Swift captioned an Instagram photo taken at her Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday. “Andddd I can’t really wrap my head around this but…. Look what you genuinely made me do: Due to unprecedented demand we’re opening up early access showings of The Eras Tour Concert Film on THURSDAY in America and Canada!! As in… TOMORROW.”

Swift’s caption continued, “We’re also adding additional showtimes Friday and throughout the weekend. All tickets will be available by 10 am tomorrow morning. And it’ll be showing starting Friday in 90 countries all over the world. I can’t thank you enough for wanting to see this film that so vividly captures my favorite adventure I’ve ever been a part of: The Eras Tour. And the best part is, it’s an adventure we’re still on together. Getting in the car now…”

Swifties will likely key in on one sentence in particular: “Look what you genuinely made me do.” Could it be an Easter egg that Reputation (Taylor’s Version) will be Swift’s next re-recorded album, following 1989 (Taylor’s Version)‘s release on October 27? For the uninitiated, “Look What You Made Me Do” is from Swift’s 2017 Reputation album and a prominent part of her three-plus-hour The Eras Tour setlist.

There will be plenty more opportunities for Swiftian Easter eggs when The Eras Tour restarts on November 9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kicking off a months-long international leg before returning to the US for a second leg later next year. See all of the remaining dates here, and watch the movie’s trailer above.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is in theaters 10/13. Find more information here.

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Dan Harmon May Be Doing A ‘Rick And Morty’ Movie, With Some Help From Zack Snyder

Rick and Morty is about to kick off its seventh season, inching the show ever closer to the 70 additional episodes promised back in 2018. There used to be huge gaps between seasons, but not anymore. To the team’s credit, at the end of this season they’ll be 4/7ths of the way to their goal. Perhaps that’s made co-creator Dan Harmon and company cocky, as now they’re even teasing a movie.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Harmon talked about having a pow-wow with no less than Zack Snyder, who wondered if he could use his weight at Warner Bros. Discovery to get a Rick and Morty film off the ground.

“Not him saying, ‘I get to do it,’ or anything like that. He was totally a super fan and was just like, ‘Is there any way I can help get that movie started by using my Snyder-ness?’” Harmon recalled. He then made some “Snyder Cut” jokes: “So, the Rick and Morty movie is coming as soon as Zack Snyder gets back from his vacation, because I want to start with a Snyder cut of that movie and then I want to do the director’s cut of a Snyder cut release, so we can just have a six-hour Rick and Morty movie and three hours of it is in black and white.”

Harmon may be kidding, but he did seriously meet with Warner Bros. brass. He came away confident that they agreed on the “same conceit” and that “it felt like maybe it was time to get the ball rolling.”

Harmon also said his “philosophy would be to just take a Rick and Morty adventure, and spend a bunch of extra money on it and make it 90 minutes long.” He added, “Not to try to earn its feature status by virtue of canonical dramatic tone shifts or anything like that, but rather to just make it a super badass episode of Rick and Morty.”

In other words, don’t expect a Rick and Morty movie that doesn’t ruins the vibe. Expect something more along the lines of Duck Tales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp or Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, where it just feels like a slightly pricier and longer version of the show.

Rick and Morty returns to Adult Swim starting October 15.

(Via THR)

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Gucci Mane’s ‘Breath Of Fresh Air’ Tracklist Includes Features From Young Dolph, J. Cole, 21 Savage, And Lil Baby

Gucci Mane will soon release his album Breath Of Fresh Air, adding to his extensive discography and giving him an excuse to stage the Gucci Mane & Friends concert at The Tabernacle in Atlanta on October 17.

In the lead-up to the show, Gucci Mane released several singles, allowing listeners to believe they had most of the pieces to the Breath Of Fresh Air puzzle. On Wednesday, October 11, Gucci Mane revealed the album’s tracklist, boasting a whopping 24 songs.

So far, Gucci has unleashed “Pissy” featuring Roddy Ricch and Nardo Wick, “Bluffin’” featuring Lil Baby, “Woppenheimer,” and “There I Go” featuring J. Cole and Mike Will Made-It, “Now It’s Real.” See the album’s cover art and full tracklist below.

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1. “Must Be Me”
2. “Bluffin” Feat. Lil Baby
3. “Thank Me” Feat. Young Dolph
4. “Trap Money” Feat. Li Rye & Sett
5. “Pretty Girls” Feat. Young Dolph
6. “Glizock & Wizop” Feat. Key Glock
7. “Internet Chatter”
8. “Talking to the Streets” Feat. Mac Critter
9. “There I Go” Feat. J. Cole & Mike WiLL Made-It
10. “Mr. & Mrs. Perfect”
11. “I Know”
12. “Stomach Grumbling”
13. “Business Not Personal”
14. “King Snipe” Feat. Kodak Black
15. “06 Gucci” Feat. DaBaby & 21 Savage
16. “Pissy” Feat. Roddy Ricch & Nardo Wick
17. “Say No Mo”
18. “Married with Millions”
19. “Woppenheimer”
20. “Now It’s Real”
21. “Broken Hearted”
22. “Hurt People”
23. “By the Water”
24. “Big Boy Diamonds” Feat. Kodak Black & London On Da Track

Breath Of Fresh Air is out 10/17 via Atlantic Records/The New 1017 Records. Find more information here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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We Made Craft Beer Experts Reveal Their Favorite Hazy IPAs

If you ask us, there’s no wrong time of year for a juicy, hazy IPA. While the classic West Coast IPA with its piney, hop-fueled flavor is wildly popular, it’s difficult to beat the appeal of the offshoot New England-style IPA. Instead of a bitter, dank finish, hazy IPAs are known for their mix of citrus, tropical fruits, creamy/ soft mouthfeel, and fruity, barely bitter, sweet finish. What’s not to love?

That’s why we enjoy this hazy, flavorful beer style all year long. Fall included!

When picking the right hazy IPA, Chad Henderson, head brewer and co-owner of NoDa Brewing Company in Charlotte, North Carolina prefers his hazies to be as fresh as possible.

“Explore any wet-hopped hazy IPA variation you come across, especially now during the harvest season,” he says. “These brews tend to shift annually and batch to batch, making each experience unique.”

But there’s more to hazy IPAs than wet-hopped, harvest beers. Some are hazier than others, many are unfiltered, and a few crank the creamy level to eleven, but all are juicy, sweet, and loaded with fresh flavor. To find some of the absolute best, we went to the professionals for help. We asked a few well-known craft beer experts and brewers to tell us their can’t-miss hazy IPA picks. Keep scrolling to see their mango, peach, tangerine, and guava-filled choices.

Crooked Hammock Sway

Crooked Hammock Sway
Crooked Hammock

George Hummel, grain master at My Local Brew Works in Philadelphia

ABV: 7.2%

Average Price: Limited Availability

The Beer:

I was often on the fence about the brews from Crooked Hammock in Lower Delaware and South Carolina. But recently they brought on brewing veteran Larry Horwitz as director of brewing operations, and he’s really upped their game. Sway Hazy IPA is one of their recent releases. It’s not to be missed.

Tasting Notes:

It has a velvety body and just reeks of Citra and Mosaic hops. It’s a beer that has each sip setting up your taste buds to want another sip. Notes of citrus, tropical fruits, pine, and a waft of cannabis.

Hoosier Haze Head

Hoosier Haze Head
Hoosier

Garth Beyer, certified Cicerone and owner of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin

ABV: 9%

Average Price: $21 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

Hoosier Brewing may often be recognized for its sour program, but its hazy IPA options are just as remarkable. Particularly Haze Head IPA. This is a simple, refined, and flavor-focused hazy IPA that I think is under the radar right now because of the craziness of what brewers are doing with the Hazy IPA flavor spectrum.

Tasting Notes:

It blends both dankness and pineapple with its use of El Dorado and Mosaic hops. It’s a great combination and one hazy IPA fans will enjoy.

Ommegang Neon Lights

Ommegang Neon Lights
Ommegang

Matt James, brew master for Genesee Brewing Company in Rochester, New York

ABV: 4.3%

Average Price: $14 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

Ommegang Neon Lights Hazy IPA. This is the lower-ABV alternative to Ommegang’s popular Neon Rainbows. Brewed with Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra, Topaz, and Centennial hops, it’s unfiltered, juicy, and surprisingly low in alcohol.

Tasting Notes:

Fruit-forward flavors and citrusy aroma with a lower ABV and bitterness make this a sessionable and refreshing IPA. The fairly simple malt bill lets the hops do their thing.

Noon Whistle Squishy Gummy

Noon Whistle Squishy Gummy
Noon Whistle

Glenn Allen, head brewer at Pilot Project Brewing in Milwaukee

ABV: 7.1%

Average Price: $17 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

Noon Whistle Brewing in Lombard, Illinois does a great job with their IPAs in their Gummy series. The fall release, Squishy Gummy is no different. Brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and Simcoe hops, it’s a beer you need to track down immediately.

Tasting Notes:

This beer is bursting with the traditional hazy flavors of passionfruit and citrus but has distinct berry and pine notes that lend themselves to the change of seasons. This beer is great, but you really can’t go wrong with anything in their portfolio.

Deschutes Fresh Haze

Deschutes Fresh Haze
Deschutes

Nico Freccia, co-founder at COO at 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco

ABV: 6.5%

Average Price: $11 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Deschutes Brewery Fresh Haze IPA. This year-round hazy IPA is brewed with 2-row and Crystal malts as well as wheat, flaked oats, and Amarillo, Cashmere, Bravo, and Mandarina Bavaria hops. It’s known for its mix of sweet malts and citrus fruits.

Tasting Notes:

While loaded with the juicy, citrusy character that defines hazy IPAs, this beer has a maltier body which really showcases the mild caramel and soft, white bread-like character of the base beer. The orange aroma is tinged with fall fruits like mango and rhubarb.

Hill Farmstead Legitimacy IPA

Hill Farmstead Legitimacy IPA
Hill Farmstead

Fal Allen, brewmaster at Anderson Valley Brewing Co. in Boonville, California

ABV: 6%

Average Price: Limited Availability

The Beer:

I suppose my favorite Hazy IPA comes from Hill Farmstead. Their Legitimacy IPA. It is a single malt grain bill and its resulting 6.0% ABV is smooth easy drinking with no hop burn.

Tasting Notes:

It a generously hopped with Citra, Simcoe, and Motueka to give it a juiciness that appeals to a broad range of beer lovers.

Tree House Julius

Tree House Julius
Tree House

Adam Lukey, head brewer at Eventide Brewing in Atlanta

ABV: 6.8%

Average Price: $6 for a 16-ounce can

The Beer:

My Hazy IPA of choice is an absolute no-brainer. It’s Julius by Tree House Brewing Co. out of Massachusetts. Julius is a perfectly executed Hazy IPA bursting with fresh, hand-selected American hops.

Tasting Notes:

It’s a bright, massively juicy beer filled with the flavor and aroma of mango, peach, passionfruit, and a mélange of citrus fruit. Julius has a soft, pillowy mouthfeel and fully rounded bitterness which never tires the palate.

Fort George 3-Way IPA

Fort George 3-Way IPA
Fort George

Chris Baum, head brewer and owner at Varietal Beer Company in Sunnyside

ABV: 7%

Average Price: $13 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

The Beer:

My pick for a can’t-miss hazy IPA is the 2023 3-Way IPA from Fort George. I don’t tend to drink hazy IPAs often, but I’ve had more than my fair share of that beer. The Kolsch yeast version was 100.

Tasting Notes:

This version of the popular IPA is filled with notes of ripe berries, guava, mango, grass, and citrus peels. It’s a great beer.

Stone Fear.Movie.Lions

Stone Fear.Movie.Lions
Stone

Matthew Steinberg, co-founder and head brewer at Exhibit A Brewing in Framingham, Massachusetts

ABV: 8.5%

Average Price: $13 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Stone Fear.Movie.Lions. Double IPA 8.5% from Stone Brewing in Escondido, California. It’s a great hazy DIPA. It was created to be a mix of West Coast and East Coast IPAs and it lives up to it in all its hazy goodness.

Tasting Notes:

The nose is slightly pine and citrus. Super smooth, good carbonation, slightly dry finish but highly crushable.

Carbon Copy Loupe

Carbon Copy Loupe
Carbon Copy

Andrew Hueston, USBG bartender at El Vez in Philadelphia

ABV: 6.6%

Average Price: Limited Availability

The Beer:

Carbon Copy’s Loupe. From a small neighborhood brewery in West Philly. It was made with some experimental hops and then dry-hopped with something else from New Zealand.

Tasting Notes:

The use of experimental hop extract and New Zealand-sourced hops give this beer a huge tropical fruit flavor that you’ll go back to again and again. Every minute I don’t drink this beer I am haunted by the memory of how amazing it was.

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An Old Clip Of Sen. Tommy Tuberville Falling Down Some Stairs Is Going Viral In The Wake Of His Continued F**kery With The Holding Up Of Military Promotions

Tommy Tuberville used to be an award-winning college football coach. Today he’s best known for holding America’s military hostage during the Israel-Hamas conflict. The far right Alabama senator refuses to budge on hundreds of military promotions, including top officers in the Army and the Navy. His reason? He wants to change Pentagon abortion policy first. Even after fellow Republicans urged him to relent, he simply doubled down. So here’s old footage of Tuberville falling down some stairs cued to ‘80s solo Phil Collins.

Per The Big Lead, the footage — which one person mashed to the immortal drum explosion from Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” — dates from 2014, when Tuberville was head coach at the University of Cincinnati. It shows him eating crap while descending from a private airplane. To make it even more embarrassing, Tuberville was en route to the Military bowl, where Cincinnati lost to Virginia Tech, and badly.

The clip resurfaced this week, partly due to Tuberville’s congressional antics, partly because of his history of dragging Joe Biden for taking some spills. That’s why one of the first people to share it, one Jason Cooper, did so.

Hey, we all fall down sometimes. Most, though, don’t do what Donald Trump once did, which is walk weirdly on a ramp, because Biden’s the one who’s frail.

(Via The Big Lead)

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The Internet’s Top Hot Sauce Recipes, Stress Tested & Power Ranked

There are a lot of great hot sauces on shelves around the country. You can get hot sauce almost anywhere — grocers, mini-marts, gas stations, and even gift shops. There are entire shows and culinary empires built around the chili pepper-based condiment. There’s so much hot sauce out there (and a lot of it is dirt cheap) that you have to wonder whether it’s ever worth making at home.

We wondered that too. So let’s all find out together.

For this exercise, I dug through very famous hot sauce recipes online — pulled from food blogs, TikTok, and Google. There were just … so many. Why is that, exactly? For one, there are so many different chili peppers that you can kind of go down an all-day rabbit hole there alone. Then you have fresh sauce, fermented sauces, vinegar-based, non-vinegar-based, sugar or no sugar, and so on until your head starts to spin.

Hopefully, the five recipes I picked will save you from a few hot sauce rabbit holes and some head-spinning. These recipes are all straightforward but I’m going to stop short of calling them all easy. Making your own hot sauce requires some prep and protection. Always wear gloves, folks. You can thank me later for that little tip.

After I made these sauces, I taste-tested them and then ranked them based on how deep, hot, and tasty they were. I used a plain Pringle as the blank canvas to test each sauce, in case you’re wondering. It was nice and neutral. Okay, let’s get into the thick of it and make some hot sauce!

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5. Copycat Frank’s RedHot Hot Sauce

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Frank’s RedHot is one of the most popular hot sauces on the shelf these days (and the base for any decent buffalo wing sauce). That makes this a great place to start, as it’s familiar enough to be a control but also good enough to shine as an at-home recipe.

Ingredients:

  • 18 fresh cayenne peppers (de-stemmed and de-seeded) or 1 oz. of dry arbol chilis
  • 1.5 cups white vinegar
  • 2 tsp. minced garlic
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. garlic powder

Sourcing fresh cayenne pepper is a pain in the ass. So if you’re not growing some in your backyard, feel free to replace them with dry arbol chilis, which you can get at any Mexican supermarket. Pre-soak them for about an hour in boiling water to reactivate them and you’re good to go.

What You’ll Need:

  • Small pot
  • Food processor (blender or immersion mixer)
  • Jar or bottle (for storage)
  • Cutting board
  • Kitchen knife
  • Gloves
  • Fine mesh sieve

Method:

  • Slice the stems off the chili peppers and slice in half length-wise. Use the tip of the knife to remove most of the seeds (you don’t have to remove them all).
  • Add all the ingredients to a small pot and bring to a rolling simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Add a 50/50 mix of vinegar and water as needed if the vinegar boils off.
  • After 15 minutes of simmering, pour the contents of the pot into a food processor and process until the puree is thick and smooth.
  • Run the pureed sauce through a sieve and return to the hot pot to gently simmer for another 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Cool completely and funnel into a jar or bottle (store in fridge).

Bottom Line:

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Zach Johnston

This tastes like mild and very average hot sauce. There’s a touch of heat but nothing overly interesting about it. Given the effort to make this and the fact that a bottle of Frank’s RedHot costs about $3, I doubt I’ll do this ever again.

4. Fresh Jalapeño Hot Sauce

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
Zach Johnston

Let’s go green! The beauty here is that green jalapeño chili peppers tend not to be as hot, allowing for a much milder sauce. This recipe from Food & Wine hits that mild yet flavorful mark perfectly. The best part? This is a no-cook recipe — making it very fast/easy to execute at home. (And yes, a hot sauce can be raw or uncooked)

Ingredients:

  • 6 oz. jalapeño chiles (de-stemmed and mostly de-seeded)
  • 4 cilantro sprigs (roughly chopped)
  • 2 green onions (roughly chopped)
  • 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
  • 0.5 cups distilled white vinegar
  • 2 tbsp. white sugar
  • 1 tbsp. fresh lime juice
  • 1 tsp. kosher salt

All of these ingredients should be easy to find at any average grocery store.

What You’ll Need:

  • Food processor or blender
  • Cutting board
  • Kitchen knife
  • Gloves
  • Hand juicer

Method:

  • Add all the ingredients to the blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
  • Pour into a jar and store in the fridge.

Bottom Line:

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Zach Johnston

This is very tasty. The only reason it’s lower on the list is that it feels less like a traditional hot sauce and more like a dip or side sauce. A salsa. It’s spicy, full of great acidic notes, and overall very fresh. This might be my overall favorite if I was looking for the “brightest” hot sauce.

3. Easy TikTok Hot Sauce Recipe

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Zach Johnston

There are about a trillion hot sauce recipes on TikTok. You can find anything and everything. So let’s go “easy” and recreate a hot sauce recipe that’s not going to break the bank, cause us to travel to another country for ingredients, or take forever to execute.

Ingredients:

  • 5 oz. Cayenne peppers (de-stemmed) or 1 oz. dried arbol chili peppers (pre-soaked in warm water for an hour)
  • 1 habanero pepper (de-stemmed)
  • 1.25 cups water
  • 0.75 cup white vinegar
  • 1 tsp. kosher salt
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 0.5 tsp. garlic powder
  • 0.5 tsp. onion powder

Again, it might be hard to find fresh cayenne peppers out there. If you strike out, hit up a Mexican supermarket for a bag of dried arbols. It’s not exactly the same but it does get the job done.

What You’ll Need:

  • Saucepan or skillet
  • Food processor (blender or immersion mixer)
  • Fine mesh sieve
  • Bowl
  • Jar or bottle (for storage)
  • Cutting board
  • Kitchen knife
  • Gloves

Method:

  • Cut the stems from all the chili peppers. De-seed a few for a less intense heat. Or not.
  • Add all the ingredients to a saucepan and simmer for 20 minutes.
  • Pour the ingredients into a food processor and puree until smooth. Add more water and/or vinegar if you want a thinner sauce.
  • Run the sauce through a fine mesh sieve into a waiting bowl. Add salt and sugar to taste and store in a bottle or jar in the fridge.

Bottom Line:

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
Zach Johnston

This is a pretty good hot sauce. It didn’t feel average and actually tasted deeper than any $3 bottle from the grocery store.

Was it worth the effort? Maybe.

There are a lot of really good hot sauces on the shelf for $7-$10 that don’t take slicing peppers and infusing your house with chili pepper spice smell for an hour. Still, this is a good hot sauce. I’d dress my wings with it.

3. Roy Choi’s LocoL Korean Hot Sauce

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
Zach Johnston

Chefs Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson know their way around hot sauce. Their LocoL Korean-infused tomato-based hot sauce is their go-to for dipping, basting, and dressing all things you’d ever want to spice up.

Ingredients:

  • 1 28-oz. can of whole peeled tomatoes (drained and crushed by hand)
  • 1/2 fennel bulb (cored and diced)
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1/8 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/8 cup white wine vinegar
  • 1/8 cup gochujang
  • Salt

This is another grocery list that should be pretty easy to fill at any grocery store. Even my very rural Krogers in Kentucky had gochujang on the shelf.

What You’ll Need:

  • Saucepan
  • Food processor (blender or immersion mixer)
  • Jar or bottle (for storage)
  • Cutting board
  • Kitchen knife

Method:

  • Heat the oil over medium heat and add the fennel and garlic with a big pinch of salt. Cook for about 15 minutes, stirring as needed, until the veg is very tender.
  • Add the vinegar and tomatoes and bring to a rolling simmer. Let simmer until water has evaporated (about 10 minutes).
  • Once cooked down, pour the mix into a food processor, add the gochujang, and blend until super smooth. Season with salt and store in a jar in the fridge.

Bottom Line:

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
Zach Johnston

This is just delicious. The onion adds a meaty texture and flavor to the tomato base that almost gets creamy. The gochujang adds a great layer of depth and a whisper of fermented funk that helps amp up the flavors.

I can’t wait to try this on everything! I’m cooking chicken in it, dipping tortilla chips in it, dropping some in my next bowl of ramen, everything!

1. Rick Bayless’ Habanero Hot Sauce

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
Zach Johnston

Say what you will about Rick Bayless, the man knows his way around a chili pepper. So there’s no better way to start your homemade hot sauce journey than by mastering one of his hot sauces.

Ingredients:

  • 12 orange/yellow habanero chili pepper (de-stemmed)
  • 6 cloves of garlic (do not peel)
  • 0.5 cup carrots (diced)
  • 0.5 cup white onion (diced)
  • 1 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 0.25 tsp. granulated sugar

This is another grocery list that’s filled at any decent grocery store. It’s also worth noting that for this recipe, I did de-seed about half of the habanero chilis. I wanted a “hot” but not “insane hot” hot sauce.

What You’ll Need:

  • Skillet
  • Small pot or saucepan
  • Food processor (blender or immersion mixer)
  • Jar or bottle (for storage)
  • Cutting board
  • Kitchen knife
  • Gloves

Method:

  • Heat a skillet on medium-high heat, add the garlic (still in the peel), and roast for a good 10 minutes. The peel might turn a dark color or even black, but that’s fine. Once the garlic is soft to the touch, remove from heat and set aside.
  • Cut the stems from the habanero and I like to de-seed at least half of them (this will determine how hot your sauce ends up being).
  • Put a small pot on medium heat and add the habaneros, carrots, onion, water, and vinegar, and bring to a slow simmer.
  • After 10 minutes of simmering the carrot should be very tender. Pour all the pot into a food processor and puree until very smooth. Add the salt and sugar and taste. Add more if needed.
  • Let cool in jars and store in the fridge.

Bottom Line:

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
Zach Johnston

This is exactly what you want in a homemade hot sauce. It’s thick and spicy with a killer kick that’s accented by sweetness, umami, meatiness, and brightness. It has everything while offering a serious kick. Plus it tastes clearly like the chili it was made from, adding to the depth of the flavor profile.

Final Thoughts on the Hot Sauce Recipes

Best Hot Sauce Recipe
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So is making your own hot sauce worth it? I really don’t know. The Frank’s RedHot Copycat recipe, absolutely not. The effort is far too much on that one. That also kind of goes for the TikTok recipe. I like that sauce, but the effort is a lot for something you can grab off the shelf almost everywhere.

I do think the fresh green hot sauce was worth it, especially if you’re already cooking out in the backyard. I also really think the LocoL hot sauce and Rick Bayless’ hot sauce are worth the effort to make. Those are just great sauces that are also unique and give you something new and fresh. They also taste freaking good.

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LeBron James Played High School Football Because Of Aaliyah’s Tragic Death

LeBron James was famously the best basketball prospect on earth by the time he was a sophomore in high school at St. Vincent-St. Mary, but James also had a love of football, which had basketball folks rather terrified he would get an injury that would derail his promising future in hoops.

Going into his junior year he was not going to play football again, but suddenly appeared in the second game of the season for the Irish and played all season to the surprise (and dismay) of many in the NBA world. Recently, new clips of LeBron dominating on the gridiron resurfaced and it became a discussion on ESPN’s NBA Today, with plenty of current NBA fans wondering why he played such a risky sport. Brian Windhorst explained the reason James played football that season was because of Aaliyah’s tragic death in a plane crash that gave James a new perspective on pursuing his passions.

“You know why he played football?” Windhorst said. “Because of Aaliyah. He was gonna stop playing after his sophomore year, and then Aaliyah, one of his favorite singers, died in that plane crash, and he decided that he was not gonna live his life being afraid. So, Aaliyah’s passing got him to come off the sidelines — he had skipped the start of his junior year, he missed the first game of the year. He joined the second game with no practice, no training camp, he played 12 games, had 1,200 yards and 11 touchdowns, and was one of the great receivers in the history of the school.”

In case someone thinks this is revisionist history from Windy, James gave a quote about exactly this in Grant Wahl’s legendary 2002 Sports Illustrated cover story on James.

LeBron, of course, made it through the season mostly unharmed and has lived up to and exceeded the outrageous hype he had coming into the NBA. James has at times teased the idea of trying to play in the NFL, but was able to scratch that football itch enough in high school thanks in part to a mentality of pursuing his passions spurned on by a tragic loss in the music world.

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Video explains how to navigate romantic relationships when your partner has bipolar disorder

Loving someone with a mental illness can be a difficult journey, especially if you’re not sure what’s helpful and what’s not.

Not only can mental illnesses be overwhelming for the person diagnosed but it can also be overwhelming for their partner. Every mental health diagnosis comes with its own set of challenges that require a unique approach but there are some basics that can be helpful to know.

One TikTok creator that goes by Milly Stone TV uploaded a video explaining how to be in a relationship with someone with a mental illness. Milly clarifies in the video that they have bipolar depression and is speaking from that perspective but what’s being said can apply to other mental illnesses.

Though the video was made for Mental Health Awareness Day, it’s useful information to have year round. In the caption, Milly explained what motivated them to share these tips.

“I saw someone said, ‘we don’t talk about being with someone with a mental disorder enough,’ so let me just give some input,” the caption reads.


Milly sits in the car with their laptop as they go into the relationship dos and don’ts, likely answering a lot of unspoken questions loved ones have.

“First and foremost understand, it’s not a personal attack on you. Communication is vital and empathy is important. Understand that they are not your responsibility,” they say bluntly. “A lot of people look at us and see us as liabilities that they gotta take on because they love us. No, I’m not your responsibility, I’m your partner, ok?”

If you love someone with a mental illness, Milly goes on to list even more tips in the video below.

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I saw someone said “we dont talk about being with someone with a mental disorder enough” so lemme just give some input #millystonetv #mentalhealthawareness #bipolardisorder #relationships #studsoftiktok #fyp #lgbt🌈 #love

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Woman is on a mission to find the girl who sent her a Sadie Hawkins invitation by mistake

It was a leisure-filled Sunday morning when Laurice Marier heard her doorbell ring and went to go answer it. But by the time she arrived at her front porch, all that was waiting for her was a Sadie Hawkins dance proposal.

The mystery sender named Katie clearly had a love for puns, writing, “I’ve BEAN meaning to ask you, wanna go to Sadies?” on a poster accompanied by four cans of beans and a bag of jellybeans. (How cute is that?)


Though the invite was clearly given to her by mistake, Marier told her local news outlet Fox KSTU that she had to try to reach the original sender.

“When I had crushes, or just people I was interested in, I often just took that very nervous step in trying to just reach out,” she told KSTU. “I just remember when it wasn’t successful how my heart just dropped, and I do not want that for Katie.”

In addition to calling nearby high schools, Marier also posted to her community Facebook Page in an attempt to find more information.

“This was left on my doorstep in the Traverse Mountain area yesterday but there is no one at my household who is Jr. High or High School age,” her post read. “I feel bad for Katie… does anyone know her?”

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Though no one could provide Katie’s whereabouts, hundreds shared Marier’s concern.

“Asking someone to a dance is scary enough, but to not get an answer back and not know it was because it went to the wrong house would be so sad.Thank you for being a caring person!” one person wrote.

As of Oct 9, no one knows if Katie is aware that her sweet invite landed at the wrong address. But, as Marier wrote in an update, “it wasn’t because of the incredible effort of this community.”

She remains hopeful that because of the amount of widespread coverage the story has gotten, perhaps Katie is just “nervous of coming forward.” So the new plan is to wait a week, and if there is no response, Marier will “make a little chili and eat some jellybeans in her honor. 😊”

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Jeremy Allen White Has Agreed To Frequent Alcohol Testing Amid His Divorce Negotiations With Addison Timlin

Earlier this year, actress Addison Timlin filed for divorce from The Bear and Shameless star Jeremy Allen White. The pair had been high school sweethearts and married for three years. They now share two daughters, and as everyone is aware, custody situations can get contentious. However, a point of conflict has apparently been nipped in the bud, according to TMZ, which reports that Addison and Jeremy will share joint physical and legal custody with a catch. In order to do so, Jeremy has agreed to frequent alcohol testing along with a support program.

Jeremy has agreed to be tested several (“up to five”) times per week in order to maintain custody, and it sounds like there is zero tolerance for slip-ups (“when he has custody”) in this agreement. From TMZ:

If Jeremy has a positive test for alcohol, he gets to retest again 15 minutes later to make sure the test is accurate.

The docs say Jeremy and Addison agreed to share joint physical and legal custody … but Jeremy’s custodial time has strings attached, and he’s also got to attend at least one Alcoholics Anonymous meeting a week, plus other therapy.

Those who have followed White’s career know that he portrayed the alcoholic Lip Gallagher on Shameless, and he subsequently shot to coveted actor status after The Bear‘s popular and acclaimed first season. He thanked Addison while accepting a Golden Globe, and she gushed over his performance. Following that success, White found himself as the sudden recipient of several A24 scripts. He will soon be seen in The Iron Claw, which is sure to feature another intense and heavy performance, but it sounds like on the personal front, he’s committed to keeping things steady and drama free.

(Via TMZ)