The World's Best BBQ Sauce

SHHHHH!!!!! It's a secret!!!

My grandfather put together a recipe for BBQ sauce years and years ago. Hands down it is the BEST I have EVER tasted. It's very unique and doesn't taste like any other.

Since my grandfather has pasted, my mother has been in possession of the recipe and would make it every now and then or when requested.

A few years ago, I made the comment about taking the sauce to a distributor and marketing it. (It's seriously that good!!) My mother damn near died and then she reconsidered and damn near killed me!!! 'How dare I even think to do such a thing! This is a family recipe and that's where it will stay!'

Seriously Mom??? I tried to tell her that Papa would have wanted us to. That if he knew people would enjoy it and that it would set her, me and the rest of the immediate family up, he would be for it.

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

My mother then vowed to not only never give me the recipe but to never make it in my presence either!

I remembered some of the ingredients but there was no way I knew the quantities. And besides I would never defy my mother like that.

Oh well...

So last mother's day I got a gift from my mom. It was a cook book that you write your own recipes in and then pass down to your daughter. I loved it! It had all the family classics in it. A little breakfast, a little dinner, and even some yummy desserts. And low and behold... in the back... listed under other.... it was there! the recipe for "Papa's Secret Sauce"!!!

When I saw it, I just looked up at my mom, like, really???

She immediately spoke and asked me as nicely yet very stern, to NOT ever give out that recipe. It is for our family only. It is the little bit of papa we still have that is special and unique just like him. And for a marketing company to commercialize that was obscured.

I now understood and agreed. ~ At least until she decides to join my dear Papa ;o)

So, a couple of weeks ago I decided it was time to break out the recipe and make it for Chi, my sister, her dad, and her gf. Kaylie had commented about how she wouldn't remember it if it hit her in her face. I told her, yes you will, it's something you can never forget. Just wait until you taste it.

Some of the ingredients call for 'to taste', so of course we had to taste it several times. Once Kaylie had her first taste test, it was like stepping back in time. What a warm and happy experience. It was it Papa was there in the kitchen with us.

Malachi tore the BBQ chicken up! He even requested extra sauce.