I was rereading about the first time I had Tiger Sauce, which was at the East Village Grille in Asheville, NC in 2011. I had a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich and potato salad and apparently used the Tiger Sauce on the steak sandwich.

So, I was wondering what to have for supper tonight. I had cooked a T-bone steak earlier in the day, at the same time I was cooking the chicken thighs. I thought, I should make a steak sandwich slicing up some of the steak, and use a ciabatta roll for the sandwich bread. I toasted the inside of the bread, and then melted a couple of slices of baby swiss (the last from the Pastrami Rachels I had made a couple of weeks ago). I then put the steak between the two slices of bread and then cut the sandwich in half.

I also boiled some Yukon Gold potatoes in the same pot that I was boiling three eggs. I wanted to use one hard boiled egg in my potato salad. I chopped up some Vidalia onion, added some sweet pickle slices (sweetened with Splenda by Mt. Olive Co.), Splenda, S&P, celery seeds, and some Dukes Mayo.

The potato salad turned out excellently. It was a little sweet, with small chunks of potato and sweet onion. I opened a bottle of the Habanero-Lime Tiger Sauce and added it to the steak sandwich as I ate it.

After I had finished the sandwich, I looked at the opened bottle of Tiger Sauce. I saw that of the 5 oz. bottle, I had probably used about 1/5. I noted that this would approximate the black plastic cup that EVG provided with the Tiger Sauce. I think they might have charged me 35 cents for the cup of TS, which I thought was expensive. I even thought it rude that they had charged me to try this, even though I didn’t know if I was going to like it. I did like it! So, 1/5 of a bottle of Tiger Sauce would cost about 55 cents today. I guess they charged me just the right amount for trying the TS.

NOTE: Boiling eggs in the same pot when you are boiling potatoes. If the egg shells are clean, there is no reason not to do “double-duty” by combining the two while cooking. After the potatoes were done, there was still a few minutes left for the eggs, so I used a colander and drained the hot water into a larger pot. I then separated the potatoes from the eggs. I put the hot water back in the original pot and added the eggs back to finish boiling. I then went on to put the potatoes in a large glass bowl.

I didn’t buy my Pyrex glass bowls as a set, but I did buy them all at the same time: two very large, two next size down, and two the smallest. There was a store, across town, that was selling assorted items. I saw these bowls and must have thought them a good purchase. *In the years since, I’ve used the very largest bowls rarely, but usually when I was fixing a large dish to take to a work event/party. The next size down were perfect for a bowl of microwaved popcorn. Sometimes you just need a bowl that’s much larger, for mixing ingredients, and then after you’ve got them mixed, you can store them in a smaller plastic container.