Gluten Free Spare Ribs

I tried out this recipe, from Craig Weaver, for Spare ribs tonight. The outcome was fantastic. On Craig's site he has several cooking methods for ribs depending on what you have available. I used the Oven Slow Cook Method with Sauce on for the entire time.

I cooked two racks of ribs, the first using Annie's Naturals Organic Smoky Maple BBQ Sauce. This BBQ Sauce is Organic, Gluten Free and Vegan. The taste was amazing.

The second rack was cooked using KC Masterpiece Honey BBQ Sauce. Not Gluten Free but still great flavor. There were no complaints from the family, other than they could not stop eating them even after getting full.

Note: This was my first attempt at cooking ribs, and I WILL be doing it again.

Lightning Shots from 6/18/2011 - Columbia MO

The storm last night was throwing some amazing lightning...  Added to the fact that the storm was far enough away from my location, and no rain, led to the following images.  Please let me know what you think.

Salty-Sweet Rub

Tonight I tried a new Rub for my Grilled Chicken.  My family had nothing but good things to say about it, so I better write it down.  Note all measurements are not exact.  I usually just go by taste.

4 Tbsp of Brown Sugar
1 tsp Fresh Ground Black Pepper
1 tsp Sea Salt
1/4 tsp Ground Ginger
1/4 tsp Paprika
1/8 tsp Sweet Basil
1/8 tsp Ground Oregano

Mix well, and rub on skin of chicken.  Grill via indirect heat or Bake, until chicken reaches desired internal temperature.

I have also used this rub on Grilled Pork Steaks with a similar effect.

If you give this recipe a try, please let me know how it turns out.

Lemon Pepper Baked Chicken

If you know me, I love to come up with recipes at random.  Occasionally I will remember to write them down.

I came up with this recipe the other night and thought I should write it down so I could repeat it later.  I started out to make some Lemon Pepper Chicken.  All measurements are estimates.  Most of the time I just add ingredients to taste.

1 Stick Butter
2 Tbsp of Lemon Juice
1/4 of a Onion Chopped
Salt
Pepper
Paprika
Ground Sweet Basil
Ground Oregano

1) Place Chicken into an un-greased baking dish. 
2) Add stick of butter in the middle of the dish.
3) Spread Chopped Onion evenly over Chicken
4) Evenly Season chicken with the rest of the Spices.
5) Bake in Oven until chicken reaches the desired internal temperature.

If you give this recipe a try, please let me know how it turns out.

Dug Out from the Snow...

Just got finished digging the car out from the snow.  I would say we had a good 2 feet or more due to drifting.

The process of digging out was made much easier by a very nice neighbor and his Snow Blower.  He has been working all morning clearing out a path down our road, and also clearing paths up the driveways so that we can get at least one car out, if needed.

He was able to get the bulk of the snow out of the way, and then I just had to make a path from the door to the Truck, and around it.