Re: substitutions: barbeque sauce

September 10, 2005

On 9/10/05, Mati Senerchia <senerchia@...> wrote:

>

> My husband has the disgusting habit of drowning perfectly good food in

barbeque sauce, usually a commercial prep (KC Masterpiece) with HFCS as the

second ingredient.

>

> After fifteen years, I've finally discovered that carefully explaining how

disgusting and

> unhealthy his habits and tastes are changes nothing.

Funny how that works, LOL!

> Coming up with decent alternatives works much better.

Yup!

> There's no reason why bbq sauce has to be unhealthy, is there? Tomatoes,

honey/molasses, spices, vinegar - this could work.

>

> Does anyone have a good recipe? It needs to taste as close to conventional as

possible > - and a little sweet. And it needs to be an easy recipe that I can

make by the quart every > week or two without making a horrendous mess. Ideas?

I won't be much help here other than to say that yes you can make a

healthy tasty barbeque sauce. I have made my own but unfortunately I

don't have a recipe for you. I do remember taking it from a

conventional cookbook and just substituting healthy NT ingredients.

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Pleasure is a nutrient - Mati Senerchia

September 12, 2005

I don't have a recipe either, but if you are looking for conventional

taste you're going to need some kind of smoke flavoring. I've tried a

few homemade BBQ sauces with my ever so fickle hubby to no avail - I

think he misses the smoke flavor.

On my fooddrying@ list there was a post about making homemade

liquid smoke. It seemed pretty simple, just a distillation of smoke.

I think the archives are open for browsing - I'm gonna see if I can

find the message.

Would homemade liquid smoke count as NT?

Sincerely,

Lana M. Gibbons

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