A couple of you asked what were Miami Ribs or how to make them.... Basically, they are beef ribs (I guess you could make them with pork, but you are asking the wrong person!) that are cut into thin strips of short ribs(I'd say they are about 1/2 inch thick). My butcher usually cuts them from "short ribs" or "flanken".
8 strips of ribs
3 cloves garlic
1 can peaches (14 oz), drained
1/2 cup chili sauce (or ketchup if you don't have)
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire
1/4 C brown sugar
1/2 C lemon juice or vinegar
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
- lay the ribs down in a baking dish.
- chop the garlic in food processor, then add all the other ingredients and process until smooth.
- Poor sauce over meat, cover and marinate. (Minimum would be 2 hours, up to a day advance. I make mine the night before or in the morning.)
- bake COVERED at 325F for 2 1/2 hours and then 30 min. uncovered, or until very tender. (they will fall off the bone)
Other goodies I'm working on for this year's Seder: Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes (no cream cheese frosting!!!) and Little Lemon Cakes.
In other non-cooking news, the girls have been shipped off to their grandparents for the night, since we need to not only cook all this stuff for Sunday's dinner, but we have to pack for our Monday morning flight to Florida.... AND..... the painters are arriving Monday and 6 months after I originally thought of comitting the ultimate old-house sin, the trim is FINALLY going to be painted and the wallpaper is going up in the living room. Turns out, painters aren't too keen on painting trim. They told me it was because it would bring down the value of my house.... like they care! It's because it's a really painstaking job and nobody wanted to take it on. But we finally have contractors and I am putting my ultimate faith in them by having them do it while we are away.... If I have white floors and brown trim when I get back, I only have myself to blame!
All the trim in our old house was painted before we got here. Badly, mind you, but that means we can re-paint at some point totally guilt free. Which I didn't even realize was an issue until I read this post.
Posted by: Mrs Figby | April 18, 2008 at 06:15 PM
Feel free pack up any leftovers into a TSA-safe doggie back and bring them down with you. My best passover recipe is matzo pizza. Or grilled chicken with veggies.
Oh, and it looks like perfectly warm, sunny, humid, non-rainy weather all next week!!!!! Hope you packed your bathing suits. But you're sunblock here - you can get it everywhere!!!!! I've got a wide selection all the way from spf 8 to 75, lotions, sprays, oils, powders (yes, they make powder sunscreen), sunless. It's an amazing thing that I always manage to get a hand-print shaped sunburn somewhere on my body.
Hope to see you next week!!!!
Posted by: Elizabeth | April 18, 2008 at 06:31 PM
Go guilt free on the paint issue. I have been painting my entry room for the past couple of days and maybe just high on the fumes, but your house should be the way you want it - not the way someone else (who doesn't have to live in it) thinks is the 'best' or will give you the highest resale value. If the next owners wants unpainted trim and stairs...well, they can hire someone to make it so.
Enjoy your trip and I hope the paint job is everything you want it to be. :)
Posted by: chicagomama | April 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM