Recipe #5: Rib City
Slow cooked baby back ribs that'll have you sayin' god-DAME!
I was well into adulthood before I learned how to cook meat. Despite being raised by carnivores and in spite of taking a few years off here and there from partaking. Most predictably I went vegan in college, but I also pledged solidarity with JTT when I was 11 years old and went strict vegetarian for exactly one (1) year before my mom took me down with a hot dog on a camping trip. Factor in being married to a vegetarian for 10 years and I was seriously behind the curve when it came to some basic kitchen skills.
Once I got back in the saddle of eating meat it was a slow process of getting over my fear of poisoning myself, along with figuring out what were reasonable things for a single person living alone to cook for themselves. Ribs were never on my radar, not only because they seemed like an unachievable goal for a home cook with a piddly electric stove, but also because they are one of the more intimidating slabs of meat to carry home whilst hoping you aren't about to ruin $30+. Give me bacon, sausage patties, hell even some chicken but ribs? Surely that's pitmaster territory.
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