There are two things that I love to cook with: my crock pot, and booze. Crock pots are easy to use, painless, and it's virtually impossible to screw up. They're especially awesome when you're busy chasing after a now mobile infant! Booze is good in pretty much everything. It adds depth to sauces, in particular, and is great for deglazing pans.
I don't cook as often as I would like to during Adrian's work week because... Well... I just don't make the time, what with Jaxson trying to spill Yuki's water dish, or chew her toys, or pull the books off the bookshelf, or his new favourite, booking it to the bathroom and trying to crawl into the bathtub. This lack of good cooking on my own is one thing I'm hoping to change. However, on Adrian's weekend, we always eat really well!
About a year ago, we were given a pretty amazing cooking book called Cooking with Booze. It wasn't until today that we were finally able to crack it open and try a recipe. The problem is booze is expensive, and when you're a new parent living on one income, it's not exactly what you spend your extra money on! However, for Christmas this year, Adrian bought a couple of our favorite liquors - Lemonhart rum and Tanqueray gin!
We decided tonight to try a delicious rum and coke rib recipe! As with all Adrian's cooking, we took some liberties with the recipe - Adrian likes to think of recipes as loose guidelines. I tend to agree with him, unless it's with baking.
So into the crock pot went:
A rack of ribs
Onions
Garlic
Carrots
About a litre of coke
Chili powder
Salt
Pepper
1½ oz rum
A rack of ribs
Onions
Garlic
Carrots
About a litre of coke
Chili powder
Salt
Pepper
1½ oz rum
We let that cook on high for about 5 hours. At this point, naturally, our suite smelled mouth watering! Next step was to pop them in the oven at 325 smothered in a homemade rum BBQ sauce (one of Adrian's passions is sauces) until the sauce caramelized on top: about 30 minutes.
Thoroughly enjoyed on top of garlic mashed potatoes with a..... rum and coke of course! (Frosted glass a must)
This all looks so amazingly Delish!!!!! So when can I come over?,,,,
ReplyDeleteRibs and booze are two of my favorite things. I agree about recipes and almost always state this on the recipes in my blog. I am giving you a method and you should adapt it to what you like and what you have on hand. No rum...,maybe use tequila. No ribs...maybe rum chicken. Mmmm. Now I am getting hungy.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Lori! That's how cooking should be! I love it - use what you've got in your fridge or pantry! That's the great thing about crock pots too; it's easy to just throw what you've got into it!
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