So to ease the painful loss of my first tomato plant, I made another batch of watermelon sangria that I had previously blogged about HERE. This time I got pictures before we started drinking it!
It looks like summer is here for us to enjoy. 22 degrees and sunny today - we go from winter to summer without missing a beat around here. Spring (as my boss once told me) is for the weak (I happen to really like spring, but figured it was not the time to point that out to him).
Dinner was nothing special tonight - we had planned on going golfing when S got home from work, but his back was sore and he wanted to just relax. We threw some chicken thighs on the bbq to grill and they were made better by the addition of..........
Homemade bbq sauce. I must have about 200 recipes for bbq sauce and I love every last one of them! This recipe is actually from a Tyler Florence recipe for chicken and pineapple skewers. We skipped the skewers and just grilled the chicken and pineapple seperately this time for ease.
This sauce is supremely easy:
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
1/4 cup honey
1 tbsp yellow mustard
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 whole garlic cloves, peeled
1 lemon, juiced
Combine in a saucepan and cook over medium heat. Bring to a simmer and cook gently until thickened, about 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
And yes, they mean gently! Last summer I walked away from this and came back to a volcano pot with lava bbq sauce shooting all over the kitchen!
This sauce is also great on ground turkey or chicken burgers with a pineapple slice.
Perfectly grilled chicken (thanks S), and watermelon sangria - a great evening on the deck! And to make it more entertaining for S - he got a new bug zapper tennis racket - he's still out there swatting at bugs and watching them sizzle.
OMG!! This is like the perfect post. I am all over Tylers sauce and this watermelon sangria is on my list. Delicious, fantastic meal!
ReplyDeleteCathy-- where did you find the My Guy Ty recipe? Id like to try and blog about it..
ReplyDeleteMy tomato plants are dead TOO! I am definitely sticking to chia pets! The chicken and sangria look and sound incredible. We should try to find something else in common besides our lack of a "green thumb!"
ReplyDeleteThanks! I've been looking for a good BBQ sauce recipe for a while & this sounds great - no addition of liquid smoke (where does one buy liquid smoke???) I refuse to pay the $10 Canadian they charge for a bottle of Bulls Eye around here.
ReplyDeleteSorry about your tomato plants. I hope the new one lasts a little longer.
Donna - lmao - I knew you'd like it. It was on the food network website - recipe called chicken and pineapple skewers.
ReplyDeleteGinger - every morning I roll out of bed at 4:45 and open the door to see if the tulips are alive ;) Right now they are budding...bout 'freaking time. Drop me an email - cmanten@hotmail.com and I am sure we can find something.
ReplyDeleteTaste - oddly enough you can buy liquid smoke in the grocery stores here. If you ever want some let me know - I'll ship it to you.
ReplyDeleteI just got my garden in yesterday...I hope nothing dies, unlike last year...
ReplyDeleteThe BBQ sauce looks really good. I have a Bobby Flay recipe - it's in the latest Food Network mag - that is really appealing to me that I'm going to try soon. Homemade BBQ sauce is much preferable to the store-bought stuff, IMO.
Wandering - I saw that recipe - it's on the list of things to try in the coming weeks. I'm sure the cookbook you are reviewing has lots of good ones too! Good luck with the garden!
ReplyDeleteSorry about your tomato plants, mine are doing well, I'm crossing my fingers that it stays that way! I'm grilling tonight too, your chicken looks great.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sara - it seems the plant is now sprouting from the bottom...it may live to see another day!
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