Apple-Pumpkin Ribs

Something I have been playing around with once this hit the store shelves:



With the Pumpkin Beer as my inspiration I set out to make pumpkin ribs. My first attempt was an utter failure. But then I incorporated another seasonal favorite:



Along with a little of this:



I came up with what I call Apple-Pumpkin Ribs:







The full writeup of the failures and the end results can be found here

That never occurred to me

Apple cider base for the marinade. Pupkin pie spice base for the rub. No sauce. I rarely sauce ribs anymore. Only when someone requests it...

That's how the website came about. We talked about doing a book. On vacation a couple of years ago with the entire fam. Like 30 of us staying in 5 cabins, each with a grill. We're cooking and people from other cabins are coming down every night to see what we are doing and sampling our stuff. More than one person suggested that.

But compiling a book can take quite a long time and one is limited to X number of pages. And most cooking or grilling books are very similar. A bunch of recipes with maybe, and I mean maybe, one pic per recipe - the money shot. The final product. What I wanted to do was something different. Rather than have just one pic (or no pic) I wanted to take a pic of every single step of the way. What if you are halfway through a recipe you got from a book and are worried it doesn't look right? With my site you can look to see that two hours into the process it should look similar to this picture.

All that being said, a book may be in our future. Self publishing these days is much easier than in the past. And now that I have enough content to actually do one we may look into this over the winter. But instead of 300 recipes and maybe 100 pictures like most books this would be maybe 60 recipes with 300 pictures.

I was actually not really ever thinking about doing a book because I thought I would have to keep content from the website and use just for a book. Why would anyone pay for something that is free on the site. Well, a buddy of mine mentioned that a lot of people don't want take their laptop out by a grill with people drinking and a fire going etc. But they would take a book.

Either way it would be at least a year out if not two... Until then I'll keep doing what I do and keep bringing my stuff here to share with you guys...

I live in south County about 10 miles south of the city. I miss living in the city (St. Louis Hills) but getting married and having kids required a suburban address...

That smoke porter is hard core. I've had one in my life. Not sure if I will ever have another one, but I always keep a couple bottles on hand. There may be no better beer to be added to chili or BBQ sauce than the smoke porter... My second fave is Schlafly coffee stout...