George > wrote:

>On 1/9/2011 3:02 PM, Steve Pope wrote:

>> A correspondent let me know that tomato sauce (as in canned Hunt's
>> tomato sauce) is a better choice than ketchup for forming a cocktail
>> sauce.
>>
>> Sounded sensible and I tried this with a crab cocktail yesterday.
>> Other cocktail sauce ingredients were as usual (horseradish,
>> Worcestershire sauce, tabasco, lemon juice). I will say the
>> less ketchup-y, less sweet result might be a better match for the crab.
>> It was however a little dull.
>>
>> Maybe next time I'll try some of each (say, 1/3 ketchup). There's
>> at least a month of crab season to go.
>>
>> Do ya'll have any preferences on cocktail sauce?
>>
>> Steve

>Add a squirt of sriracha.

Aha. Putting the cock in cocktail sauce.

Thanks.


S.