“Fall Off The Bone” Baby-Back Ribs

   I  know everyone has their own favorite rib recipe and to be honest this is more of a method than a recipe! This is the ONLY way I make ribs.  They are just that good! I have tried this recipe a few different ways with different ingredients and I ALWAYS get a very grumpy look from everyone in the family. My family does not like change with a recipe they already love!   I will caution we like a lot of flavor and you get A LOT of flavor with the rub.  It adds some serious heat, so if you don’t like heat with your ribs please use your own spice mix and certainly feel free to change up the BBQ sauce . Like I said it is really the method more than the ingredients.

INGREDIENTS
2 slabs of baby back ribs
1 large bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey BBQ sauce
1 tin of Nantucket off shore Rasta Rub (use sparingly)

DIRECTIONS
The night before you want to cook them I take one slab at a time and rub both side with the rub (using as much or as little as you like knowing it adds a lot of flavor and heat!) . I then slice the ribs into three even portions and place in large heavy duty Ziploc bags.  I do this with both slabs.

When you have everything portioned into the Ziploc bags I squeeze a good amount of the BBQ sauce into each bag rubbing the sauce all through the ribs making sure the ribs are well coated with the sauce. I refrigerate these overnight.

When you are ready to cook them preheat your oven to 300 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with foil. Cut six pieces of tin foil large enough to wrap each individual rib piece. Wrap one rib section in one piece of foil and place on baking sheet and continue until all of the rib portions are wrapped. Bake for 2 1/2 hours. Take the ribs out of the oven, unwrap the ribs from the foil. Discard foil and place the ribs back onto the same baking sheet. Using the same BBQ sauce, coat each baby back rib with a nice slather of sauce. Move the oven rack to the top portion of the oven.  Turn oven to broil, leaving the door open just slightly.

Place ribs back in oven on broil and cook for 10 to 15 minutes watching carefully as they can burn at this point. You want the sauce on top to get thick and caramelized without burning!!!

Enjoy,