Texas BBQ Sauce Recipe

Hello!

Happy belated Fourth of July to all my fellow Americans!  I hope all of you had a fabulous time celebrating, I know I did!  Great food, great company, and great fireworks all make a GREAT Fourth of July.  I spent my Fourth of July with my family and we did some bbqing (OBVIOUSLY WE HAD TO).  What is more American that BBQing really?! We make chicken kabobs and RIBS, yum I'm salivating just thinking about the flavors.  For my ribs recipe I just went to my go-to bbq sauce recipe and I thought I'd share that with all of you!  

OUR BBQ!  NOTE the FABULOUS BBQ'd RIBS!

Texas BBQ Sauce

Ingredients

 1 Tbsp. canola oil

 2-3 garlic cloves, minced

 1 cup ketchup

 1/3 cup (packed) golden brown sugar

 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce

 Juice of 1 large lemon

 1 chipotle chile from canned chipotle in adobo chilies, minced

 2 tsp. chipotle adobe liquid (from the can of chipotle chilies in adobe sauce)

 Directions

Place oil and garlic in a cold sauce pan.  Turn the heat to medium low heat so that the garlic can infuse into the oil. Stir continuously to make sure the garlic doesn’t burn, about 2 minutes or until the garlic begins to turn a golden color. Stir in all the remaining ingredients and turn the heat up to medium until the sauce simmers.  Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes, stirring continuously.  Take the sauce off the heat and serve warm or let it chill. Makes about 1 ¼ cups.

The BBQ sauce is really delicious, sweet and tangy, just the way I like it!  Other than ribs, it will work on chicken, beef, pulled pork, or even on grilled veggies. 

So other than BBQ and hang out with my family I saw some great fireworks!  We were heading out of our house to go out to see them when we realized that about five of the homes right in front of our house were lighting them up!  We had a show (FOR A SOLID TWO HOURS) right over our heads! (It made me really want to get to know my neighbors, until it became 1 am and they were still lighting them off! ha)  I was practically screaming the whole time because like those of you who have had fireworks light right over you, they were so loud!  I completely turned into a fascinated three year old, but I had a great time.  That's what's important right?  I really felt proud to be an American and had a fabulous day.  I think it's really a great thing to have pride for where you come from and as my entire street filled smog from the smoke of all the fireworks, I definitely felt that.  I hope everyone else had a great time celebrating, and make sure to try the sauce! 

Here are some of the photo's I snapped of the fireworks on my phone (fireworks are actually really hard to capture on a cell phone!)

xx Larissa