Red Raspberry BBQ Sauce, 19 oz.

Red Raspberry BBQ Sauce is sweet raspberry with a jalapeno edge and mesquite smoke, a fruit-forward raspberry barbecue sauce with a little warmth behind it.

Traverse Bay Farms builds this one on real red raspberries, then works in jalapeno and natural mesquite smoke. It goes sweet and tangy first, then a low jalapeno warmth and the mesquite show up on the finish. The Northern Michigan maker keeps it fruit-forward without letting it turn into a jam, so it still pours and brushes like a barbecue sauce should. Award-winning, and it tastes like it.

Glaze ribs and pork in the last stretch so the raspberry caramelizes, brush it on grilled chicken and wings, or pour it over a block of cream cheese for a fast appetizer. The jalapeno stays polite, so the whole table can run it.

• Ribs and pork chops
• Grilled chicken and wings
• Pork tenderloin and ham
• Cream cheese with crackers
• Grilled turkey and game birds