I've got all the things needed for making sweet 'n' sour sauces - 1 honey, 1 lemon, 1 ginger and 1 tomato ( is that right?). And when I click Make, it always says not enough ingredients!!
This *might* be the same issue I dealt with. I bought ingredients on auction and they "appeared" to be in my inventory immediately. But... I couldn't actually used them until the frog arrived with the ingredients. This was confusing a lot of players today. Before the frog arrived, I went to make awesome stew and it showed that I had 80 (just bought on auction) potatoes... but I didn't really have them 'cause the frog hadn't arrived yet. So many players (self included) thought their awesome pots weren't working right.
Ah. Then yours was a separate issue, altra. If you purchase something from auction, you don't receive it immediately. It is delivered by an awesome frog, but it takes a couple of minutes for the frog to deliver.