Today we celebrated Oldest Daughter’s birthday. By cooking. A day late. When asked what she want for her meal, her first response was “Not ribs”. Seems she has been indulging in inferior ribs recently, and wanted something different. While eliminating suggestions for what she didn’t want, the subject of side dishes came up and suddenly potato salad was on the menu. Followed by smoke beans. Followed by these. Don’t confuse them with ribs…
These “not ribs” were rubbed with some No Excuses BBQ rib rub (recipe here), left to smoke on the WSM for just over 2 hours, then foiled for another 2 hours. Somewhere during the foil process, the beans went on the bottom grill of the WSM, and when it came time to remove the foil all the drippings went directly into the beans. The ribs were sauced with Big Butz Cranberry, then left on the grill for another 30 minutes. The result was a plate of goodness that looked surprisingly like ribs, tater salad, and smoke beans.
As for Oldest Daughter, I’m guessing she won’t be eating inferior ribs again anytime soon, especially if she can figure out a way to get me to cook more of these.
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You can come over and make “not ribs” for me anytime!
Wisconsin is a bit of a commute, but I’ll have to see what I can do. I know I won’t have to provide the sauce.
Great looking “Not Ribs” NorCal is a bit closer. I’ll supply the sauce……(Big Butz of course)
NorCal is closer, but the travel time isn’t much less if I follow the route we took down the coast. On the other hand, the scenery on the coast makes it all worthwhile.
They were fall-off-the-bone delicious and was glad I had my mind changed for me.
Trust me when I say you aren’t the only one that was glad your mind was changed for you…