Meat Hot Sauce

Meat hot sauce??  "WTF is that?" you ask??  Well!  Let me tell you!  It's a complete FOODGASM!  I am from the home of the Garbage Plate.  Screw Bill Gray's Tom Wahl's, Jimmy Z's and whoever else has a plate on their menu.  There is only one Garbage Plate and it hails from Nick Tahou's. Shhhhh.
A moment of silence please...........

If you've never had a one, a Garbage Plate truly is a spectacular masterpiece of a dish!  Burgers or hots with mac salad & home fries (or baked beans) smothered in meat hot sauce, mustard and onions.........a mouth-orgasm waiting to happen!

Most people outside of Rochester know what this gem of a condiment is.  If you aren't from around here, lemme school ya!  I make big batches of this shit and freeze it and put it on pretty much everything!  Even if you're a veggie-saurus, you can still make this shit!

So here's the skinny.....most of this recipe is a guideline......a jumping point if you will.  Follow it and then change this bitch to suit your tastes.  Me?  I double all the spices and hot shit.  You might not like that.  Whatever.  Play with the ingredients and see what you like.  I don't recommend changing the ratios of water to beef.

Ingredients

• olive oil for frying
• 1 & 1/2  pounds of ground beef or veggie ground
• 1 medium to large sweet onion chopped
• 2 large cloves of garlic minced (smash those fuckers with the broad side of your knife before you mince them)
• 2 cups of water
• 1 small can of tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons of Red Hot or Sriracha (you can add more if you like)
• 1 tablespoon of dark brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro
• salt to taste (don't put this shit in until the hot sauce is done)

Directions

1.  Saute the onions in some olive oil until they are soft.

2.  Add the ground beef ***, garlic, and water and mix that shit good.  Honestly it's gonna look like gross      but keep your panties on.  It will be the consistency it needs to be when it's done.

3.  Throw all the rest of the ingredients in the pot EXCEPT THE SALT.  Save that shit until the end.        Stir the hell out of it.

4.  Put a lid on the pot, turn the heat down to low and let that fucker simmer for about an hour while        you go have a couple beers, read a book, take a nap........whatever.

5.  Taste your masterpiece.  If you think it needs more of something, add that shit right in!  Keep              tasting that mother fucker until your mouth is completely turned on and your taste buds start                making babies.

6.  You're happy with the flavors yet?  Good!  Put some fucking salt in there! Don't put too much in or      you'll ruin all your hard work. Mix in 1 teaspoon at a time, taste it, and reevaluate. 

You can't eat the whole fucking pot in one sitting so I recommend freezing it.  The best way to do this is to spray ice cube trays with some cooking spray.  I use Spectrum coconut oil spray.  Fill the cubes up with your luscious sauce and freeze that shit.  Once it's solid, take the cubes out of the trays and
put those little fuckers in a freezer bag for a deep cryogenic sleep until you're ready to use them.  To defrost them, just put them in a small sauce pan with a little water and warm them up.  

*** If you've gone to the Veg Head side and are using ground veggie burger, you're gonna want to brown that shit up real good before you do anything else.  Ground veg has a much different consistency than beef.  Once you brown it in the olive oil, add the onions and garlic.  once they are soft, just follow the rest of the directions.  Also, if you are a Veg Head but you want to do things right and make a Plate, you'll need cheese for your burgers.  Being dairy-free, I use Diaya cheddar style slices.  They melt pretty good and taste ok too.  

Happy eating!  Angie