Home made BBQ sauce.

Internet is a wonderful tool sometimes. I had some pork in the oven, as we didn’t have pulled pork in too long, but I had no BBQ sauce to finish it or to serve it with. And we were not supposed to be leaving the house today, we were promised a new asphalt on the drive – but as it was raining, they will do it tomorrow, hopefully.

So I looked up how to make a simple and delicious BBQ sauce and I was stunned how easy and delicious it was. That’s why I’m keeping the recipe!

In my small KA food processor I blended about 160g of brown sugar, 125g of ketchup, about 60ml of white wine vinegar( red was recommended, I had none), 60ml of water, a good splash of worcester sauce, some mustard- traditional, I had no powdered one. Some hot paprika, salt and pepper. I simmered it for maybe 15 minutes and when I tasted it I was surprised at how good it was and it needed nothing else!

It went down a storm with our pulled pork burgers, the cucumbers seen on the photo have grown on the patio. 🙂 A glass of Italian Cabernet was enjoyed alongside.

Torta morbida ricotta e pere.

Some very sad pears were sitting in the fruit bowl, so I looked up Giallo Zafferano and turned them into a lovely, light and moist cake. Unusual for me, to bake without butter, but instead I used a tub of ricotta.

First thing, the pears were peeled and chopped into small cubes, drizzled with some lemon juice and set aside. KA was busy whipping 250 tub of ricotta together with 130g of sugar, plus some vanilla sugar( we’re off to Poland in 2 days, will be stocking up on essentials!), to this went 3 whole eggs, one by one, a generous amount of lemon zest, 16g pack of powdered yeast and finally 220 g of flour. All this nicely combined together, pears in and into the lined baking tray. It baked in 180 degrees for over an hour. Once baked, finished with icing sugar. Might take a chunk over to the neighbours. 🙂