Barbecue Sauce on beef
(originally from 5/27/10)
Here’s a great idea from Meridian Magazine:
the “Emergency Preparedness Moment:
What emergency preparedness activity would you like to do this week for your family? Make this a matter of prayer and you will be surprised at the promptings you can receive. These few minutes every seven days during Family Home Evening can help your children be ready for a variety of emergencies. Problem solving skills, first aid skills, putting together backpack 72-hour kits, or any other kind of creative endeavor shows your family you love them and teaches them how to take care of themselves in tough scenarios. What will you choose this week?”
You could also find a minute or two while you're driving kids to school or activities. A little bit of time each week can help you cover a LOT of ground. If you need resources, some great ones online are http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/ http://ussc.utah.gov/publications/roots_earthquake_low.pdf If you prefer a booklet you can HOLD, both of these are available, free of charge, at the city office building, from the city emergency planner. Here in South Jordan that’s Dustin Lewis. He’s happy to pass them out!
Maybe expand the “Emergency Preparedness Moment” into a “Self-Reliant Living Moment”? See where the Spirit leads you in your quest…
-Rhonda
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Mom's Barbeque Sauce Makes about 3 cups
2 8-oz cans tomato sauce (or 2/3 c. tomato powder and 1 1/3 c. water) 1 can/cup water (fill up one of the now-empty tomato sauce cans) 1 chopped onion (size is totally up to you) or use a handful of dried
A couple sprinkles of garlic
pepper to taste
3-4 shakes of Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp. vinegar, optional
Sugar, honey, or molasses to taste, anywhere from none to ½ cup
Simmer everything together until flavors combine, at least 10 minutes, or an hour if you have it, to let it thicken and become rich. This will be even better the next day or later in the week. Leftovers freeze well. If using this with hamburger, you can cook the hamburger with the onion and then add the rest and simmer.
If you want to change the flavor a bit, add a spice or two. Some good ones for this are cloves (try 1/8-1/4 tsp.), oregano (about 1 tsp.), chili powder (1-3 tsp.), or Liquid Smoke (1/2-1 tsp.), mustard (1 tsp. dry, or up to ¼ c. of the stuff in a squeeze bottle), a dash of cayenne, a little Tabasco sauce. Basically any spice that you like! Another idea is to use pineapple juice in place of the water. With that one, try just a tablespoon or two of brown sugar. Or use orange juice and honey with ½ tsp. ginger.
To make BBQ Beef, brown a roast in a couple tablespoons of hot oil. Pork or chicken are also good.
Add all the Barbecue Sauce ingredients. If you have a tight-fitting lid, or are using a crockpot, don't add the cup of water. A little vinegar in the sauce will help tenderize the meat. In this batch, I used 2 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar, and 1/4 c. honey.
When the meat is cooked and tender, remove the lid and boil until the sauce thickens enough to coat.
Shred or slice the meat, then stir together with the sauce. Delicious! Just the right amount of sweetness for me. Store-bought sauce is always too sweet, in my opinion. I still buy it when it's cheap, but mix it with some plain tomato sauce.
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