Jose mae's hoppin' good steak sauce
Steaks
This recipe has made its way around the kitchen a couple of times before ending up as it is today. I used to be a home brewer and would also make wine. I wanted to make spirits but there wasn't much info on stills back then, being the early 1990's, but I stumbled onto a book called "Secrets of the Still" by Grace Firth. In this book she has all kinds of stuff about anything fermented, from tempeh to herbal remedies. It is an interesting book filled with all kinds of tidbits but it does not contain a lot of recipes. Fortunately she has one for steak sauce. I made it and then started playing with it to come up with a recipe of my own. Not that long ago I saw a different version in Saveur Magazine(issue #103) using the Secrets of the Still version and was surprised at how close it was to mine. I have been tinkering ever since and think I now have a version we can call Jose Mae's. I like to name things after my daughters and Jose is the perfect name for this because she likes to dip her food. She is my taste tester because if she likes something she hops around the room saying "mmmmmmmm". She is two and she will eat anything spicy and I am amazed it does not bother her.
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