The Recipes Thread

First Recipe is from Brendan from

http://www.banditsbabes.com/forum/general-talk/2170-recipe-thread-starting-ribs.html


Well, I was asked how I make my ribs since I made some tonight for Mere and her family So I'll share my way here.

There's a million different ways to cook them but this is mine:

I like to use fresh never frozen ribs. I buy them straight from the abattoir (slaughterhouse).

We'll base this off of 2 full racks of ribs.

This is what you'll need:

Food:

2 Full racks of Back Ribs (duh)
1 2L bottle of Coca-Cola (not pepsi, not no-name, not diet, MUST be coca-cola classic, no exceptions)
Chicken & Rib BBQ Sauce
Hot & Spicy BBQ Sauce
Red Hot Sauce
Garlic Salt
Fresh ground pepper
Olive Oil
Rum
"Garlic Plus" Seasoning

Equipment:

Crock Pot
BBQ
BBQ Brush
misc bowls/platters
spoons/etc.


Take your rack of ribs, and cut them in half so they'll fit into your crockpot. Toss all 4 pieces in there and put in 2 shots of rum. Now fill the rest of the crockpot with your coca-cola right to the top. I cannot stress enough that it needs to be coca-cola.. pepsi doesn't work, nor does anything else. You can skip the rum if you don't have any, but MAKE SURE YOU USE COKE.

Put your crockpot on high and go find something to do for a few hours.

When It hits the 2 hour mark, flip your ribs around. Check on them to see how they're doing and put the lid back on.

When it hits about the 3.5 hour mark your ribs should be about ready to pull out of there. You should see lots of shit floating around in there.. thats normal.. thats fine.. and the liquid around the ribs won't look much like coke anymore. The meat should be very tender by now, and you shoudl be able to see some perfectly white bone. If you bought some bullshit ribs they may take a bit longer. But 3.5 hours should do it. I wouldn't go too much more than 4 hours or so because they'll start falling apart at that point and be impossible to bbq.. You want them at the point where they're just about ready to fall apart.

To prepare your sauce.. take 1 cup chicken and rib sauce, 1/2 cup hot and spicy bbq sauce, and 1/8 cup of the Red hot sauce. Add ground pepper and garlic salt to taste and mix it all up. (You can never have too much sauce, I'm guessing the amounts here.. I usually just eye it up.. you want to end up with something sweet and tangy with a bit of spice)

Go get your bbq warmed up.. have the burners set to about medium.

Now pull your ribs out of the crockpot.. and lay them out on a platter of some sort.

Add olive oil to each side of them.. and brush it on liberally, shake on some of the garlic plus as well.

BBQ the ribs on medium heat until they begin to crisp up a bit, get golden brown and have bbq marks on them.. now brush on some sauce and flip them over.. cover both sides with sauce.

Reduce the BBQ heat to low at this time. Continually flipping over the ribs and repeatedly saucing them. All the sauce should get very thick and dark in areas.. with nice bbq marks on it. Keep putting sauce on there until you run out of sauce. Keep BBQ closed when you're not flipping the ribs.

I usually bbq the ribs for about 1/2 hour - 45 mins. The sauce will be very thick and gooey by the time you are done, and will have nice bbq marks on it and be extremely tasty.

That's it.. bring those mofo's to the table and enjoy. They're messy as hell.. but just pick em up and eat em. Don't be a pansy.