Smoked spareribs

[bearfan454]

I felt like barbecueing today. I made smoked spare ribs and pasta salad. For the salad you need



Boil your eggs. Put salt in the water and the shells come right off.



Peel, throw away the yolk, cool them off and dice them up along with your other ingredients.



Boil your pasta. I used salad pasta. Rotini works good too. It just depends on what kind you like. I leave them al dente.



Drain your pasta, cool it off, and mix it together with all the other stuff. Add a lot of Hellmann's mayo. This salad takes a lot of mayo. Make sure there is enough that everything is covered pretty good. I used over half a quart, but I made a lot.



Spread the mixture out on a serving platter. Liberally add Parmesan cheese to the top of it and I mean liberally. Decorate it any way you like on top. When we used to have our IBM Christmas parties people would ask me - Hey Stevo are you going to bring your macaroni salad to the potluck ? I used to decorate the top with red and green pepper slices to make it look Christmasy.



Cover it tightly with Saran wrap and put it on the bottom shelf of the icebox. It needs to chill for 4 or 5 hours. Serve cold.



Get your pit fired up for the ribs. I use a little wood too for the smoke flavor.



Get it smoking pretty good.



Season your ribs. I don't add salt because the the Natures Seasoning and the Spicy Season All are both loaded with salt. My ankles are a little swollen from too much salt already.



Put your ribs on.



Close the lid and let it smoke away. Keep an eye on it though. I check it about every 5 or ten minutes to make sure a blaze hasn't just ruined my ribs.



Let it get done but make sure it is still juicy. I hate dried out ribs.



Bring them in and let them rest for about 15 minutes.
Slice them up and put them on a serving dish on the table.



Then tell your wife - It's time to eat honey !

[grasswire]

1. question

Why did you throw away the yolks?

[bearfan454]

3. I try to watch out for cholesterol for one thing and also

they mess up the color pattern for the presentation.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

2. That looks great,

Thanks for posting the pics!

[Mandate My Ass]

4. Yummy, that looks fantastic

You inspired me to bbq yesterday even though it was only 25 degrees at grill time. I made jerk chicken for the first time. Came out delicious. I couldn't find my wood chips and I just about went crazy because they have to be smoked! There's nowhere in Philly that I know of selling them this time of year so I took the dead branches from the annual herbs I grew last summer, mostly basil and some oregano along with a sprig of rosemary, soaked them and put them in foil. Maybe that didn't smell and taste good.

Sides were dirty rice and sauteed plaintains and yams. And there's enough leftovers for the Eagles game today.

[bearfan454]

5. There are a lot of different woods you can use.

Mesquite and hickory are real popular. Any mesquite up there ? I have used wood from pecan trees. My wife's X-husband had a tree clearing service and he sold me an emtire pickup truck full for 20 bucks one time.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Selling mesquite for smoking ... the most perfect business in the world

Mesquite is a weed tree. People *pay* for people to cut it down and haul it away.

The smart haulers then chip it or grind it, put it in bags, and sell it to rich people in Fairfield County, Connecticut, for use in $4,000 stainless steel back yard "kitchens".

Make money getting your raw materials.
Make money selling your processed waste.

Nice work! Anyone wanna buy swamp willow wood? :D

[Mandate My Ass]

7. Everything disappears from stores after Labor Day

I've got to go with mail order I guess because I don't know any alternative sources of wood chips. And next time hopefully I won't misplace it!! :dunce: