Baked Ribs: There are meals you just expect to be difficult to make at home. Ribs, for some reason, always seemed too aspirational for my skill level. But I love to order a gorgeous plate from FD’s Grillhouse, where a half rack of fall-off-the-bone ribs is only $16. This is why I stopped in my tracks when I was at Sam’s Club last week, noticing a huge package containing two full racks — four plates’ worth at FD’s — was only $26. Could I attempt ribs at home?
The answer is: unequivocally yes. In fact, it was so easy I felt it qualified for a “Dinner Done Easy” spot. I used this YouTube video to learn how to trim my whole rack to neat St. Louis-style rectangles. Then I used this Inspired Taste recipe for easy baked ribs. I skipped the complicated homemade BBQ sauce and just brushed them with Sweet Baby Ray’s.
Keep the sides simple with a baked potato or a bag of frozen sweet potato fries, and your favorite green vegetable.
And the best part? One Sam’s Club package gave us dinner, a second rack for the freezer, two bags of shredded rib meat to tuck into fried rice or beans later, and even rib drippings I skimmed and saved for soup stock. That’s a lot of meals out of one cut of meat.
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