And I drank perrier all night. First time in a long while that:
a) I wasn't half in the bag by the time people started showing up. b) I didn't burn the ribs. c) I remember everything pretty well (shoot- I may be sober but still my memory is maybe not so bueno) d) I was the last one up. e) I woke up hangover free and cleaned up the disaster that was my kitchen.
The ribs were unreal. If you ever want a really good BBq sauce, you just take a couple cubes of butter and sautee a couple whole heads of garlic (peeled and minced mind you) with some fresh tarragon (couple bunches) and some cumin (I use both seed and powder- @ a teaspoon each) and some fresh celantro (couple bunches). and a pinch of salt (a strong teaspoon). I sautee that until the garlic has convinced me that it's pretty well cooked. Then I add a couple bottles of Tiger hot sauce and a bottle of tobasco (tiger bottles are small- about the size of the smallest tobasco bottle - like 8 or ten ounces each) (the tobasco is the one size up from the smallest I think.) Then I add about 40 oz of ketchup, a box of brown sugar and the juice from about four limes. If I'm doing a ton of ribs I add some extra ketchup to make sure I have enough.
I boil the ribs for around 45 minutes to make sure the meat is cooked and tender and will just fall off the bone when I eat them, and I take them from the boiling water and let them drip off a bit in a tray and then I sautee them directly in the simmering pan of BBQ sauce to really infuse the meat with the sauce. Then I put the ribs in a pot and do the next ones, and so on and so forth. Then I take the whole mess out to the BBQ, dip the ribs one last time as I put them on the fire and cook them til they look like attractive little gourmet ribs.
Truth be told, I stole the recipe frommy little brother. The one change I have made from time to time is to add like 4-6 oz of honey. But that depends if you like your ribs sweet or not. If you're going for spicy cut the brown sugar in half.
Anyhow- there were like 7 lonely ribs in the tray this morning when I cleaned up, and despite the whole dont give your dogs pork bones rule I had two happy dogs this morning. Fat, yet happy.
Waking up without a hangover is still a daily joy for me. And, I love being able to remember everything that I did/said the evening before. It's a great feeling.
Thanks for the recipe. The ribs sounded really great. But, here in the UK, it's a little cold for a BBQ right now! So, I'll be saving your recipe until the weather is a little better.
Take care and have a good day,
Carol
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At one year, I still have not courted the stresses of throwing the sort of party that I used to, but do enjoy cooking and having friends over.
I also don't miss hangovers at all! I am still amazed by how much better I feel upon wakening (I must have been hurting myself a lot more physically than I thought).
I bet cleaning that dreaded kitchen was not nearly the nauseating experience that it used to be, huh?
Oh yeah- it wasn't a BIG party. That just looked better than "modest little get together at my house".
Yeah- the kitchen the day after a party under any conditions can be pretty horrific. The stuff of legends. ;) Lots of times I've had people offer to clean up and have woke up to a beautiful gleaming kitchen with a dishwasher full of clean dishes. FANTASTIC people.
Even more amazing- yesterday I managed to get the bamboo done on my kitchen floor. I've been remodeling my kitchen for a couplemonths, in my spare time. The cabinets I did over a four day stretch when my girlfreind went to Oahu to visit her parents. I did the counters (half the counters, rather- I kinda underordered) a couple weeks ago when she went over there for an xmas party and to xmas shop. Even so- I'm still waiting on one slab of the laminate countertop and two cabinets. I was emotionally attached to a cabinet that I built twelve years ago and so was going to keep it- a beautiful Koa cabinet that looks more like a piece of furniture than a built in. But when I saw the new cabinets all installed they looked so good that I decided to swallow my pride and tear out my cabinet and replace it with new ones. Hence the underordering of countertops too (well actually I fell a little short even not counting that- but just a tiny bit.)
Totally doing this project on credit. I hate that. But I ran out of money after the rock walls and the roof. Gotta get the house looking good for the next big earthquake. Kinda like wearing clean underwear in case you get in an accident. ;)
Geez louise I ramble. I'm gonna post some alcoholic rambling in a bit- something I wrote a year or so back. This is way too sanitary and I'm afraid I'm losing my credibility as a lush.
