Last year my love of gardening and cooking came together and the result was our new little hot sauce company called KJ’s Sauces. We were harvesting scads upon scads of peppers in our garden and wondering what in the world to do with them all. Someone – I can’t remember who, suggested we try making hot sauce. I researched and read techniques and finally fell upon the fermenting method. Then I began trying and testing combinations of peppers, other vegetables and spices and herbs. The fermenting process takes some time, but even thought fermented sounds somewhat of a gross word, it really adds layers of flavor and funk to the hot sauce that you just can’t get by mixing it straight up. It’s been really…