T he best easy homemade smoked meat BBQ sauce recipe is packed full of delicious flavors guaranteed to satisfy any palette!

Happily, virtually every recipe in Chasing Smoke is accompanied by tips ... Use a stick blender or a small food processor to blitz the barbecue sauce ingredients to a smooth, thick paste.

While the meat cooked, I made Ray's barbecue sauce ... I couldn't really taste the dry rub. I wish the recipe included stronger spices beyond smoked paprika that might stand out more.

"it has a lot of rich cultural history when it comes to culinary and food," she said. Incorporating the spices and ingredients of Cajun cooking with the smoke and meats of barbecue was a way to ...