As i mentioned in my earlier BBQ post i said i'd post up some of the recipes i made for the BBQ, and, as I love ribs so much i thought i'd start with this.  Sorry there aren't any photos, but, er, none were taken :P

Ribs.  I like ribs.... a lot.  Pork, beef, lamb - all good.  Beautifully succulent meat cooked on the bone to get as much of that meaty flavour as possible.  With the right rub, sauce or marinade there are few things better.  I mean, who doesn't like being presented with a full rack of barbeque baby ribs? that wood smoked flavour with a sweet but tangy scent penetrating to the back of your nose... nice, i'm salivating just at the thought of it (hopefully you are too :P )

So, how did i make them? well... it was a rack of pork ribs, with my BBQ sauce on it, all put in a bag to marinade for a couple hours (the longer the better though).  Unfortunately, on the night, i wasn't around for the whole cooking process as @Lisa_T and I had to go on an emergency beer run.  It really was an emergency, we only had two beers left with at least another 5 hours to go, dilema.

Anyway, the ribs were put on the Q and i left it in the very capable hands of my friends @_@ and when we got back lovely BBQ, porky, boney, goodness was ours! ALL OURS! MUHAHAHA!

Tools:

• Sharp knife
• Pan
• Wooden spoon
• Large foodbag
• Smoking Wood Chips

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Large Onion
• 2 Cloves Garlic
• 1tsp Cumin Seeds
• Whole Grain Mustard
• Tobasco
• Red Chilli Flakes
• 1tsp Dried Thyme
• 2tsp Paprika
• 1 Can of Coke
• 2tbsp Tomato Ketchup (i woulda used tomato puree if we had any, it worked anyway though)
• Splash of Olive Oil
• Knob of Butter
• Salt
• Pepper
• Rack of ribs

Method:

1. Finely dice the onion and garlic
2. Heat the oil and butter in the pan and fry the onion and garlic till they turn brown, lower heat and continue to stir till softened
3. Grind the cumin seeds in a pestle and morter while the onions/garlic soften
4. Add the can of coke, whole grain mustard, ground cumin seeds, ketchup, a couple drops of tobasco, dried thyme, paprika, and then salt, pepper and chilli flakes to taste.
5. Bring this to a boil and then simmer the mixture till it has reduced by half.
6. Now reduced, leave the mixture to cool down - your marinade is made.
7. Now cooled, put the clean rack of ribs in the large food bag and pour the marinade in making sure the meat is completely covered.
8. Leave to marinade for a few hours, over night if possible...  As long as you want really, the longer the better.
9. To cook the meat we put it on the BBQ when it was at a lower heat, added some woodchips to the coal and closed the lid, we checked it regurly and turning and re-basting with the marinade sauce.
10. It should take 30mins or so to cook.

Hope you enjoy these ribs, the marinade has been made a few times and each time it's got better for me.  With the actual cooking of the meat i reckon it could actually be boiled first to cook it, this would leave the meat extremely soft and most likely absorb the marinade a lot more, although you would lose some meaty flavour in the boiling proces. 

The alternative is to have it on the BBQ at a very low heat and cook it for hours, adding more chips and constantly basting.  This would also leave the meat nice and soft with extreme smokey and bbq saucey flavour, so this would probably be the best option.  Having said that you can just whack it on and munch it like we did :P

Happy rib ripping :D

 >Marcus