Barbecue Ribs

Based mainly from clippings from: Beth's Melt in Your Mouth Barbecue Ribs (Oven) 
 

Ingredients (for 6 people)

• 4 lbs pork ribs
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon hickory smoke salt (if you don't have this make your own by mixing Liquid Hickory Smoke and Rock Salt!)
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon of powder mustard
• 1 teaspoon of powder black pepper 
• 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper (optional)
• 2 cups of your favorite barbecue sauce ( mine is Sweet Baby Ray) 
• (a good barbecue seasoning mix can do the job too, I tried adding McCormick Grill Mates Barbecue seasoning with good results)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees f. (150C)
2. Peel off tough membrane that covers the bony side of the ribs.
3. Mix together the sugar and spices to make the rub.
4. Apply rub to ribs on all sides.
5. Lay ribs on 3-4 layers of foil, shiny side out and meaty side down. (In fact I do the opposite here, I keep the meaty side up and bush a little bit of Barbecue sauce on top)
6. Lay two layers of foil on top of ribs and roll and crimp edges tightly, edges facing up to seal.
7. Place on baking sheet and bake for 2-2 1/2 hours or until meat is starting to shrink away from the ends of the bone.
8. Remove from oven.
9. Heat broiler.
10. Cut ribs into serving sized portions of 2 or 3 ribs.
11. Arrange on broiler pan, bony side up.
12. Brush on sauce.
13. Broil for 1 or 2 minutes until sauce is cooked on and bubbly.
14. Turn ribs over.
15. Repeat on other side.
16. Alternately, you can grill the ribs on your grill to cook on the sauce.

 

Comments:
With the Internet providing access to hundreds of recipes it is easy to find one, the problem is to find one that you like! Last time I made ribs I was very happy with the results but I forgot to save my preferred recipe, worst than that, I kind of adapted 2 or 3 recipes into my own and forgot to take notes. So, today, when I decided to make Barbecue Ribs in the oven again, I started my day searching for the lost source of inspiration without luck. Fortunately, I am glad that I had my browsing history still available on my main desktop compute and managed to find those again. Here are the source of inspiration:

Got the basic recipe from here:

- Beth's Melt in Your Mouth Barbecue Ribs (Oven) Read more at: http://www.food.com/recipe/beths-melt-in-your-mouth-barbecue-ribs-oven-107786

- Got the idea on how to make my own Hickory Salt Hickory Salt by mixing Liquid Smoke and Rock Salt  from here: http://www.ehow.com/how_5514047_make-hickory-smoked-salt.html