Picnic Meal Plans: Ribs!!!
Dry Rub | Best Ribs Ever | Watermelon Salad
Dry Rub
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Misc |
| Meal: | Ribs!!! (Picnic Meal Plans) |
| 0.33 | cup | pepper, fresh ground |
| 0.33 | cup | paprika, sweet |
| 0.33 | cup | garlic powder |
| 0.33 | cup | onion, granulated, dry |
| 0.33 | cup | chili powder |
| 1 | cup | sugar, brown |
| 0.33 | cup | salt, kosher |
| 0.33 | cup | coffee, ground |
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Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. May be stored in an
air-tight container for months.
Note: Use on pork, beef and chicken.
Great on wings. Put wings in a bag, add rub, shake and bake.
Best Ribs Ever
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | The Other Meat Entrée |
| Meal: | Ribs!!! (Picnic Meal Plans) |
| 6 | lb | ribs, baby back |
| 1 | recipe | dry rub |
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Rinse ribs and dry with a paper towel. Turn ribs over to the fatty side and score diagonally across the ribs in both directions. Rub dry rub over ribs, flip over and rub dry rub on this side. Place parchment paper on a cookie sheet with ¾” sides, place ribs meat side up onto cookie sheets and place in pre-heated 275 º oven. Bake for 2 hours, flip over and bake for an additional 45 minutes, flip back and finish cooking until fork tender and ribs start to fall off the bone, about 40 more minutes.
Serve with bbq sauce on the side.
Watermelon Salad
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Ribs!!! (Picnic Meal Plans) |
| 0.33 | cup | pine nuts, toasted |
| 7 | cup | watermelon,seedless |
| 1 | cup | cheese, feta |
| 0.5 | medium | onion, red |
| 1 | cup | arugula |
| 0.33 | cup | cilantro, chopped |
| 0.25 | cup | oil, olive |
| 2 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
| 0.5 | tsp | pepper, fresh cracked |
| 1 | pinch | salt to taste |
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Toast pine nuts, Seed and cut watermelon into bite size pieces. Thinly slice onion, crumble feta and place in bowl with all other ingredients. Mix well, serve very cold.
Optional: Add some chopped mint.
