Healthy Blood Sugar Movie

What I have come to realize over the last year is that we are only limited by what we think is possible.  In the case of BBQ sauce it has so many ingredients in the list and a lot of them are things we can’t have.  It’s probably natural to think the molasses or brown sugar are the key ingredients that give BBQ sauce its unique flavor profile.  For a long time I assumed making a BBQ sauce would just be impossible.  That’s where Paula Deen comes into the picture.  I opened up her bottle of sugar free sauce and was astonished.  We quickly ran out to Big Lots and bought all the bottles we could find.  I haven’t been able to find it since. It’s  It’s cruelly expensive.   So I was left to the task of trying to create my own recipe.  

 I spent weeks eating her BBQ sauce exclaiming, “How does she do it?? How does she make it taste like dinner and dessert?? What did she do???”  So much so that I was near offending my husband who would reply back to me, “You know the wings are good too, I’m the one who cooked them on the grill.”  My first recipe tasted nothing like BBQ sauce.  I was very disappointed but happy with it as a .  

The fact that it had been done before kept me hopeful.  I had a fantastic sauce to reference with Paula Deen’s sugar free BBQ sauce and I had Google.  So for a few weeks I’ve read every single sugar free BBQ sauce out there and what I have found is a decisive lack of liquid smoke.  Not just any liquid smoke…it has to be mesquite liquid smoke.  I know it says hickory smoke on her ingredients list but trust me the is what works. How does Paula make her BBQ sauce taste savory, sweet, and almost like a dessert but perfectly balanced for slathering on grilled meats?  It’s the spices.  In particular we will need cinnamon.   Are you tired of getting by with BBQ sauces that taste like A1 or salsa? Me too!  Those days are over.   This recipe will probably evolve as I have more time to develop it.  I’d like to create a variety of sauce recipes.  I can’t wait to see what else we can do while staying low carb.  

I feel like a fresh BBQ sauce has more explosive flavor then any bottled sauce could have.  I actually have 1/2 bottle of the Paula Deen sauce in the fridge and it has gone untouched since pulling this recipe together.  My husband is planning on bringing a bottle of my BBQ sauce to work and I’m pretty sure even though I just made some more this morning that I’ll have to make another batch within a few days! Try it.  You’ll love it!