Balsamic Barbecue Sauce

The tang and robust flavor of balsamic vinegar dominates, but also finds a nice balance with barbecue sauce standards like ketchup, honey, mustard, and molasses.

New York-Style Pizza Sauce

No need to go in search of a slice joint. You can make a New York-style pizza at home any time you want, starting with this faithful and perfectly calibrated recipe for the sauce.

Pizza Sauce recipe (3 versions)

A good pizza sauce recipe is essential for an excellent homemade pizza. Here's 3 to choose from - an Instant no-cook one, a fresh one or a slow cooked one.

Memphis-Style Barbecue Sauce

This "Memphis-style" is my favorite to make at home—it takes the aspects of sweet tomato-based sauces I grew up on, but by dialing back the sugar and amping up the vinegar, creates a sauce where seasonings and spice are more defined and achieves a pleasing balance between the main defining aspects of a barbecue sauce.

Cherry Barbecue Sauce

You can call cherry a "secret" ingredient to this barbecue sauce. It adds a deep fruitiness that gets well embedded in the sauce. The cherries are paired with ancho chili powder, which gives an earthy spice.

Hoisin Barbecue Sauce

Crossing a cultural divide, hoisin brings sweet and savory character to this barbecue sauce's tangy tomato base.

Stout Barbecue Sauce

Winter is a call for us to beef up the heartiness of just about everything. Though I'm not normally a huge fan of stout beers, when the frigid cold has set in, there's something appealing to drinking what feels like a meal in a bottle. I wanted to take that appropriate seasonal heaviness and apply it to a barbecue sauce. So I married the two to create a stout barbecue sauce.

Fresh Tomato Pizza Sauce From 'The Kitchn Cookbook'

This pizza sauce from The Kitchn Cookbook: Recipes, Kitchens & Tips to Inspire Your Cooking, by Sara Kate Gillingham and Faith Durand, gets an interesting lift from lemon zest.

Mango Habanero Barbecue Sauce

Staying true to its name, mango forms the sweet base here, but this sauce also delivers all the tangy and spicy complexity that makes a great barbecue sauce.

Peach-Bourbon Barbecue Sauce

Peach is front and center in this tangy, sweet, and spicy barbecue sauce, which gets some extra depth thanks to a shot of bourbon.