Rays Ribs & A New Spice

Hi Everyone!
Gawd, Ray your rib recipe was killer! My only complaint was that I didn't like the taste of the BBQ sauce I used. Not your recipes fault. I used some funky Mesquite Hickory one. I wished I'd had some ((Doug's BBQ Sauce)) Hear that Jeff?

My friend Jeff drives 80 miles to Oakland, CA (near San Francisco) to just buy this great BBQ sauce from this really small hole-in-the-wall rib joint. I always ask if he will get me some too :) It's been a couple years since I've had it. I wished I'd had some tonight instead of the crapola one I used. Anyway, the meat was so tender...just melts in your mouth. Very easy good MESSY recipe Ray ;) Thank you!

Anyway...take a peek at Rays Ribs>>>

So you take the rack of Pork Ribs and slop on a ton of BBQ sauce, then wrap them in plastic, then in foil.

I made this seasoning spice today (tell you about it in a sec...) But anyway, then you pop them in the oven. (I should have put them on a cookie sheet cuz they leaked --oops)

K... Set oven to 300 degrees (Bake) and 3 hours later...PRESTO!

ALL DONE!---Do you llike my little sprinkle of parsley? Yep, is my lame attempt to make this big ol' slab of meat look healthier :P

K. Let me tell you about this new spice sensation. At the grocery store one day, I was at the spice isle and there was a guy next to me complaining about high price of the Ground Cloves. I said, "Well? you can get the tiny half bottle generic one right there instead?" He laughed and said, "Well, ya I guess I could, or I could just take the whole cloves I have already and grind them in my coffee grinder but I need alot more than that---cuz' I use it alot."

ummmmm....I'm thinking ok...I need to know why this guy uses so much ground cloves or my life will be incomplete.

Anyway, we keep sighing over the spice price delimma and then it dawns on me that the Natural Food Market down the street has bulk spices and maybe he could get ground cloves cheaper there?

I blab to him about my thought, but then I can't stand it any longer and have to ask him what he's using all the ground clove for? He rolls his eyes like ((Ya wouldn't YOU like to know)) and I say "COME ON SPILL IT DUDE COOK! So he says it's for his top secret spagehetti sauce. :)

Oh Really??? I throw him to the ground until he cries U.N.C.L.E. and tells me that its a combination of cinnamon, ground cloves, sugar, and cayenne pepper.

He wouldn't give me the exact measurements, so I kinda guessed at it- and I changed it a bit and decided to mix brown sugar and white sugar together...and I used red pepper flakes vs. cayenne.

So here's the Lolo version:
I threw it in the spaghetti sauce that I made this morning and ran a spoonful of the sauce to my taste tester (Kip) to try out. He thought it was good. YA! So I made more of the spice and stuck it in a little jar for future use. You guys might wanna try it too? The cloves add a nice warm flavor to the sauce.

K, I have more to tell you and show you about the art walk and all, but I'll save it for tomorrow. Have a nice evening all! Sleep well.

Lo**

Posted by Lori at February 13, 2005 07:55 PM