BBQ Ribs

I was never much of a rib fan until my friend gave me some good advice for making mouthwatering, tender, falling-off-the-bones ribs (slow cook them in the oven first). This recipe will produce better ribs than Chili's or that hole-in-the-wall bbq joint. I don't measure my ingredients, but this should be close.

Ingredients:

- One rack of baby-back pork ribs (use regular pork ribs if you don't want to spend the extra cash)

- Two cans of cheap beer

- Any bottle of BBQ sauce

- Dry rub

• 4 tablespoons onion powder
• 4 tablespoons garlic powder
• 4 tablespoons of paprika
• 3 tablespoons of oregano
• 2 tablespoons of kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon of pepper
• 1 tablespoon of chili power (optional)

Preparation:

- Mix dry-rub together and rub and coat ribs on both sides.

- Pour beer into roasting pan and put top grill-pan (or whatever it is called) on top of roasting pan. Put ribs on grill-pan bone side down. Cover ribs with aluminum foil making sure to wrap the foil around the edges of the pan to keep the moisture in the ribs. Put in a pre-heated oven at 225 for 3 hours (longer if you are not using baby-back ribs).

- After three hours coat ribs with bbq sauce and transfer to a hot barbecue.

- Grill ribs 10-15 minutes, coating them with bbq sauce often until you get a thick, sticky, charcoal and caramelized glaze.

- Dig-in and get messy