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FRANK ASHTON CLASSIC ITALIAN AND ADDITIONAL RECIPES: My name is Frank Ashton and I live in the Cleveland Ohio area. I was a high school art teacher for 33 years. I love painting,especially Impressionism; and traveling with my wife; but my other love is for cooking. Over the years I have probably cooked for some 20,000 people. This includes cooking free for many groups to raise funds for worthy causes. Most of my recipes are original from me and some from my mother or my wife Dottie. This has led me to decide to share my original recipes with others. This site has 110 recipes to date! My goal is to be able to give real recipes that really are excellent. One should not expect anything exotic; but I will guarantee they will impress anyone who loves to eat. FIRST GO TO GOOGLE AND PRINT IN THE WHITE BOX FRANK ASHTON ORIGINAL RECIPES AND CLICK ON THAT. Frank Ashton Original Recipes should come up. To print a recipe save it to favorites and then click on the recipe on favorites and you will then be able to print it. THERE ARE OVER 50 VEGETARIAN (MEAT FREE) RECIPES LOOK FOR THE ASTERISK * IN FRONT OF EACH RECIPE OR WORDS VEGETARIAN STYLE

Saturday, May 28, 2011

* FRANK ASHTONS FAMOUS BBQ SAUCE-- TRULY EXCEPTIONAL! -- ASHTON STYLE (#55)

VEGETARIAN RECIPE;
   Some years ago I was asked to cook barbeque chicken for about 400 people.  I never had been satisfied with commercial BBQ sauce so I decided to make my own variation.  I knew what I wanted and what I did not want in such a sauce.  I did not want the sauce to be hot but certainly one could put more heat in the recipe that follows such as tabasco or additional hot peppers such as habanera.  I did want the sauce to be more sweet than not. In terms of ingredients there were two that make this recipe more unique.  The first is grape jelly and the second is red sparkling wine (I prefer Runinte Red Sparkling wine but any red sparkling wine will do). I have had many people ask for this recipe so please try it and let me know what you think.

INGREDIENTS:
7 bottles (138 oz) of commercial (store bought
   sauce such as Hienz or Krafts BBQ Sauce)
10 oz bottle of Teriyaki sauce
16 oz of grape jelly
6 oz of molasses
1 oz of liquid smoke
1/2 oz of tabasco sauce (more if you want the sauce to be hot)
3/4 liter of  sparkling red wine (Ruinite Red is very good)

OPTIONAL:
6 cloves of minced garlic
3 tab of soy sauce
3 tab of hoisin sauce
3 tab of grated ginger

DIRECTIONS:
mix all the above ingredients and cook at least 2 hrs in a large soup pot with a defuser in between the
pot and the burner.  A defuser is a semi flat round metal defuser about 6 inches in diameter with holes in it on both sides. I use this for spaghetti sauce and it works wonders.  Many larger hardware stores might carry it.
Don't use a solid metal one as its a waste of money. If you can't find a defuser cook on very low heat and stir often so you do not burn the sauce.

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