Give Up The Bottle!

We are right in the thick of  BBQ season.  A tasty barbeque sauce is imperative.  You need that one sauce you can always count on.  A barbeque sauce  that is full of flavour and versatile.  Wow, there are so many bottled barbeque sauce brands, types and flavours at your local super market and gourmet food shop.  How do you choose?  Which one should you get?  I bet you wonder what it tastes like and if it's going to be better on chicken than on pork and you become worn out from reading all the labels. Why not do what I do? - MAKE YOUR OWN!!!
I watched my Mom make this sauce for years.  It's tangy, sweet, and bright in flavour.  The bonus is that the ingredients are already in your pantry, so you can whip it up and not have to worry about running to the grocery store to pick up some item you have never heard of!  The colour is nice to.  Why is that important you are saying to yourself?  Well, how food looks wakens your appetite, so a rich coloured sauce is a beautiful thing.

Here is the recipe:

2 cups of ketchup
3/4 cup of prepared mustard
1/2 cup of brown sugar ( you can always add more it you like it sweeter)
1/4 cup of white vinegar ( you could also use apple cider vinegar but don't use red wine vinegar)
5 shakes of Worchestershire sauce
1 teaspoon of onion powder
1 tablespoon of garlic powder
Shake in some hot sauce - your preference on how much

Mix it all up and you are done...
Now...please add more vinegar if you need or use any mustard you have (bold, honey, etc)
You can not screw up this recipe...It's stood the taste of time!

Put on ribs or chicken as you are barbequing.

Helpful Hint:  My ribs or chicken are par - cooked before I barbeque...adding the sauce too early, on raw meat for example,  will cause the sauce to caramelize too fast and will burn.

Enjoy!

Food is love,

Annette