1.   Bottled Thai peanut sauce, for instance, tastes great with snow peas, bean sprouts, baby corn, chopped green onions and broccoli florets.

2.   Bottled sauces and specialty products offer shortcuts.

3.   But bottled sauces are easy enough to doctor up.

4.   For an interesting switch from the usual spaghetti with bottled sauce, try this over angel-hair pasta tossed with a little sesame oil.

5.   For harder-to-find Thai condiments and bottled sauces, we stop off at Oriental Food Mart up the street.

6.   Not until after World War II, when backyard grilling became part of the suburban good life, did commercial bottled sauces become widely available.

7.   Oranges can easily be varied to grapefruit and tangerines, while powdered chile may be replaced with bottled hot sauce.