bbq sauces

Welcome to Sauces You Need To Know, Weekend Edition. Time to break out the whisks and pots, cause we're making good food taste even better. Some are cooked intensively, some are created with a quick whirl in the blender. However they're prepared, these 10 basic sauce recipes are great to know and even better to use on food, as one does with a good sauce. 

After a week of brewing up condiment-based sauces — not that we don't love ketchup and mustard with all our hearts — I thought I'd take classic American barbecue sauce recipe back to its pre-squeeze bottle roots: the actual tomato. What could an actual tomato have to do with barbecue sauce? Read on.

Straight-up yellow mustard is traditionally used in South Carolina-style barbecue sauce, but if honey, Dijon or even beer mustard is more your thing, customize your sauce to your personal tastes. Check out the recipe after the jump!