Monday, October 15, 2007

WTF is Zippy Sauce?


This bowl, though worn, well-loved and now retired, was where the very first batch of Zippy Sauce was created.
The two Mason jars in the behind are both filled with Zippy Sauce.


WTF is Zippy Sauce? Zippy Sauce is the name I have for a home made BBQ sauce that was created on the fly at my friend Mick's house when he was in the middle of grilling steaks and remembered that he was out of a commercially branded steak sauce. As all four of us had already been drinking... there was no way any of us were driving to store to get some.

So I volunteered to make something up... and after a quick web search on BBQ sauce recipes which gave me a rough idea of what is in a normal BBQ sauce, I raided his kitchen cupboards and "a little of this and a little of that" and voila "Zippy Sauce" was born.

The dinner was funny as Mick and his wife, Amy and my wife and I sat down for dinner, everyone took the smallest amount possible of the new BBQ sauce. Each of us in turn dipped a little steak into and tried it. A minute later we were all heaping more of the sauce on our plate.

A couple of weeks later we were back for another BBQ. Mick mentioned that he bought some steak sauce from the store. I figured that was the end of my home made BBQ sauce adventure, at this point Amy spoke up and said she didn't want the store bought stuff and she wanted the "zippy" BBQ sauce I'd made before. My wife agreed and want the "zippy" sauce as well.

I almost panicked as I'd made that sauce up two weeks ago and wasn't sure if I could remember exactly what went in it. I gave it a shot and while it was slightly different from the first batch, it was close enough that everyone enjoyed.

The "Zippy" sauce was born. I played around with the ingredents and which ratio of each to use for the next year or so and now I have the recipe down and Zippy sauce is now very consistant.

Cheers,

Mark

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