Well, Mrs. Zak told me she bought baby back ribs for this weekend. Knowing how she isn't a detail-oriented person, my initial hopes of succulent pork ribs turned to thoughts of so-called "country-style" ribs, which of course aren't ribs at all.
I demanded to see the meat.
She pulled out a long, thin cryovac, and my hopes rose again.
But something was different . . . the bones were far too wide. I took the package from her and looked.
BEEF back ribs. Not BABY.
Now I got all sorts of excited. She often buys beef short ribs, but they are always single-bone pieces, and she usually does them in the crock pot. But I had been wanting a rack of beef ribs. And now they were here.
They were pretty thin, with two racks stacked on top of each other in the cryovac.
I had used up the last of my Beef & Game on the eye of round, so I decided to do MacCormick Montreal Steak on one and Jane's Crazy Mixed-Up Salt on the other. But little did I know my son had the Crazy Jane's in his bedroom (Why, I don't know). So Lawry's it was for the second.
The next day I fired up the PBC and added four chunks of apple wood.
Let them cook for about two hours, until they looked right.
On the plate:
Sorry, no shots of them cut. My fingers were too greasy, and I couldn't stop eating them!
Both seasonings were fantastic. Can't wait to cook these again.
