Surviving At Home

My creativity in the kitchen is certainly lacking. I can make pasta without a recipe but that’s about it. Anything that makes it to our dinner table requires a recipe, an easy recipe, which is why I sit in awe watching those cooking shows like Top Chef. It’s not within the realm of my comprehension that people can just go into a kitchen and “whip something up”.

This past Sunday was a pretty lazy day for us; we basically hung out at home and enjoyed the nice fall weather. This got me thinking about our meal plan for the week and how sick and tired I am of cooking the same, boring ol’ food for the picky eaters in my family. Thank goodness for the internet because I don’t need to scour piles of magazines or cookbooks anymore. Instead, I paid a quick visit to www.AllRecipes.com and within minutes I had a bunch of yummy recipes for the week.

Since I had all afternoon to prepare Sunday’s dinner, I chose a recipe for grilled pork ribs. Already had the ribs defrosted (a miracle that I thought to do it ahead of time!) and the marinade sounds fab. I had just about given up on preparing any kind of pork except for bacon because that’s the only thing I can prepare that doesn’t taste dry and look nasty. So I was a little bit leery of this recipe only because of my bad experiences. I was also totally thrown off by the fact that a reviewer said to BOIL the ribs for 40 minutes before putting them on the grill. What? Never heard of that before.

Let me say, the ribs were not lookin’ all that good when I took them out of the water, even though the house smelled wonderful! But this was a recipe that had gotten 4-5 stars from others who tried it so I persevered.

Those ribs were AWESOME!!  Boiling them rather than baking them first helped tenderize the meat and now this recipe is on our list of regular meals!

Not sure what my picky girls will eat the next time I make this but my hubby and I will enjoy them!

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