End of the year BBQ Sauce

For almost ten years Don has cooked up a batch of home-made BBQ sauce on the last school day of the year. The first year was the spring of 1999, we had moved to a new house in Georgia in the fall of 1998, and Don wanted to start making some new traditions of our own. Thus, the “end of the year BBQ sauce” tradition began. Tomorrow is the last day of school, and since he’ll be busy making the sauce in the afternoon, we’ll post the recipe for anyone who wants to join in and make their own. It’s a vinegar-based sauce that has a real nice peppery kick to it. We smoked a chicken, chops and a roast last weekend, all part of the plan. Tomorrow night we’ll enjoy some of it with the sauce. One of our favorite traditions, however, is to...