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When we visited Texas this year, a friend of Robin’s from college took us to a great BBQ place, The Salt Lick, they do real Texas BBQ, but with a sauce on the side like North Carolina BBQ….so you can be pure or get saucy.

I’ve never had barbecue sauce like it before and started a new quest. I must make this BBQ sauce as part of my canning for friends, family, and our own attempts to ‘think globally and eat locally‘- it was a vinegar and mustard sauce- no tomatoes.

My first searches started by looking at Texas recipes for BBQ sauces, then I learned was schooled by a another friend that real Texas barbecue has no sauce.

He explained, using a documentary, since he’s a teacher. Aparently this wasn’t a simple topic at all.

I need a smoker, and this wasn’t going to get me the same outcome I hoped for. For now I’m considering one of these. Until I can afford a contraption like that. I’ll still cooking it then serving with sauce. And thanks to all the teaching, I finally found a recipe for the North Carolina style sauce I fell in love with at the Salt Lick.

These or variations on them will be tested in my kitchen very soon:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Eastern-North-Carolina-BBQ-Sauce/Detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Eastern-North-Carolina-Barbeque-Sauce/Detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/East-Carolina-Barbeque-Sauce/Detail.aspx

And I will be cheating will my crock pot until futher notice.