My mother was a warrior.
She was outrageous and funny.
There were times as her daughter I had to ask her, “Are you serious?”
As a hot, spicy vibrant being, she influenced almost every individual in our family and extended family.
Never taking no for an answer, as you can well imagine, she didn’t just rock the boats but she could also rock cruise ships, submarines and oil rigs.
As a young girl we just couldn’t stop ee eye to eye.
She would embarrass me to the moon and back and I just couldn’t understand her.
However, when she made her pepper sauce and put it in the middle of the table, the energy changed.
I asking her why I believed that happened and she replied. “It’s because the sauce is my sunshine!”
It reminded her of home when she arrived from West Africa almost 50 years ago.
Sadly my mother passed away a few years ago and one day, sitting with my sister and a sister from another mother, the 3 of us started reminiscing about my mother and her sauce.
That day the sauce was reborn and here we are today.
We added 1 more ingredient to it that gave it a new kick. The new kick are her girls.
As I sit and enjoy the sauce and make it for the world to feel the sunshine, I realise my mother had created herself in a jar and we want to honour the awesomeness she was.
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