This is a new weekly feature that I’m going to try out.

About a month ago Jody started a cooking thread on the forums, which is now up to 8 pages. So what I want to do is try out a recipe each week, take some pictures while doing it, and discuss the games I played while waiting for the stuff to cook.

Tangy BBQ sauce & Fire Emblem: POR
This weekend I tried phoenixsflame BBQ sauce recipe. It’s fairly easy to do.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 3 hours

Ingredients

Half of Large Onion
Full Clove of Medium Sized Garlic
2 cups of Apple Vinegar
1 1/3 cups of Water
Tabasco Sauce (1 Tablespoon - 2 tablespoons)
4 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
Smidge of Honey
24oz of Tomato Paste
4 Tablespoons of Lemon Juice
Ground Pepper (To Taste)
Ground Red Pepper Flakes (To Taste)
1/3rd Cup of Brown Sugar
1 Tablespoon of Dry/Ground Mustard

Dice the Onion and Garlic very finely, this will allow for the most flavour.
Mix together in a large cooking pot, simmer on lowest temperature for 3 hours. (Do not bring to a boil, it’ll ruin the flavour.)
Cool in fridge.
This can be use as a Marinade or a BBQ sauce.

If you’re using it as a BBQ sauce, before serving add more lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce to taste.

Note: This is a very tangy sauce, you can sweeten it a bit by adding more honey and/or sugar.
I tasted the sauce while it was cooking and found it a little too tangy, so I added some honey and about 1/4cup of Brown Sugar.

Once the sauce was ready, I’m placed some in a bowl added my ribs and left it in the fridge for 2 hours to marinate. When they were on the BBQ, I took a spoon and made sure to add more sauce everytime I turned them, so the ribs wouldn’t burn since it was constantly covered with sauce.
We were three to eat Ribs last night and we gave this sauce three delicious votes.

Thanks Phoenixsflame, for this awesome recipe.

Phoenixsflame also gave some sweeter alternative for the BBQ sauce.

Try adding some pineapple juice for a very sweet flavor for pork, or pear juice to really sweeten the beef to the bone.
If you want a really. REALLY thick sticky delicious sauce, one that really sticks to the meat of anything you’re cooking. Add a bit of molasses if you have it (Substitute it for Brown sugar, and up the water by about half a cup.)

It makes for some thick sauce, but it’s still spreadable with a sauce brush.

Since this simmers for 3 hours, I needed a game that I could easily just leave the remote there and go stir the sauce a bit every now and then. My game of choice, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on the Gamecube.

Since it’s a turn base (Strategy) RPG, when I had to get up to check on the sauce, I didn’t have to wonder if I’d get attack or die while I was gone. FE:POR has such a great story, and the character development is really great as you get to learn the background of most of your crew members between battles. I don’t know if you’re like me, but when a character dies in a mission, I usually restart it over. I don’t want to lose anyone because I want to learn more about them. Each chapters in Fire Emblem takes about 1 hour or more to finish, and in most chapters there’s a certain twist/unexpected event that happens; either you find new allies (good) or get attacked by a bigger group halfway in the battle (bad).