BBQ sauce

I grill ALL year round. My favorite BBQ sauce has always been Sweet Baby Ray's. I love it for it's sweet, stickiness. Sadly, as with almost all of our past favorites, high fructose corn syrup is the first ingredient. I have since found that making your own BBQ sauce is super easy! If you sort through all of the crap on the ingredient list of Sweet Baby Rays you come up with -
Tomato paste, vinegar, pineapple juice, molasses, & garlic. Those ingredients alone seem like they would make quite a tasty sauce. Why add all the other crap??? Here is one of the sauces I've come up with. The whole family loves it!


All natural Chicken Legs w/ BBQ sauce
Start by rinsing the legs. Marinate them in alittle olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and spices to taste ( I like thyme, rosemary, oregano, and curry) for at least a 1/2 hour. The trick with legs is that they need to cook for a LLOOOONNNNNGGGGG time over low heat. Place the legs on the grill, over low heat with the lid down for 45 min! Turn once mid way through. This melts all of the fat off the leg leaving a much tastier result! Baste the legs with the sauce in the last 5 -10 minutes of cooking.

Sauce
1 cup Hunt's All natural no salt added ketchup
1/4 apple cider vinegar (Search apple cider vinegar health benefits and you'll find that many sites state that apple cider vinegar's health benefits aid in diabetes, high cholesterol, blood pressure & heart health, cancer, and weight loss.)
1/4 molasses
1/4 mustard
1 Tsp red crushed pepper

Combine all ingredients and chill for 1/2 hour for flavors to mesh!