I think I did something good for my chef-training today! I woke up this morning and decided I was going to go to the grocery store after dropping my oldest son off at school and I was determined to walk over to the meat aisle and grab something that I would never buy on a normal *1-star cook* trip to the grocery store.
Well, there it was.....the biggest, juiciest package of pork ribs and it was on sale.
Okay, I think we have a Winner!
So, I picked it up and back-tracked over to the sauce aisle for a few bottles of barbecue sauce (which was off brand but was on sale too for 70 cents a bottle! WHOOHOO! I love sale prices!)
Here's the easy way I made them:
I came home, dug out my slow-cooker and dumped those ribs in the crockpot after I rinsed them off. I added one-&-a-half bottles of barbecue sauce, added sea salt, pepper, a pinch of garlic salt and a 1/2 green pepper- cut up. I set the cooker on LOW and cooked the ribs for approx. 8 hours. They were tender and pretty much falling off the bone when I took them out of the slow cooker.
This is what my critics had to say:
Critic #1 (age: 28) - "These are really good. What made you decide to make ribs today?"
"Did you make these?"
Critic #2 (age: 9): "Mom, these are good. I love ribs. Did you 'customize' these?"
(otherwise known as did you make this meal by yourself, or from a box, or takeout! lol)
Critic #3 (age: 3): "Yum, barbeque sauce!"
Overall- this meal could be rated as a 4. Definitely something a little more unique than the weekday meal from a box or quick fast food alternatives.
Okay.......so not bad for my first attempt to do something different! I might just make these again in a few weeks! :)
