Yummy! Dr. Pepper Ribs

Barlo and I have been cooking a lot lately (much thanks to his expertise!) and I figured I'd share one of our yummy meals. Tonight we had spare ribs, ranch biscuits, and baked potatoes!

First we prepped the ribs by "removing the membrane" on the back of the ribs. Slide a regular/dull knife under the thin lining next to the bone at one end. Work your way across the first rib until the membrane is all the way off this one. Use a paper towel to grab the membrane and pull, slowly removing it from the entire rack.

Create a mixture of your desires spices (we used rendezvous rub, backyard, cavendars, garlic salt, and salt and pepper). Rub the spices on the bottom and top of the rack. Next, line a 9x13 (for a half rack) with two long pieces of foil. Pour in 1.5 cups water and 1.5 cups Dr. Pepper. Place the ribs in the foil/water and make a tent with the foil, loosely wrapping the ribs. Be sure it's closed tightly. Bake on 325 for 1.5 to two hours, remove and top with barbecue sauce of your choice (we used Sweet Baby Rays) then put back in the oven uncovered at 375 for 15 minutes.

Remove and enjoy! The meat should literally fall off the bone. With the biscuits I mixed milk, cheese, and bisquick with ranch brushed on top and put it in the over for about ten minutes while the ribs were finishing up. Yummy meal and definitely easy' hope you guys try it!

House into a home!

Finally the past few days Barlo and I have started making our house feel more home-y. That started on Saturday night with our first house dinner guest, a friend of Barlo's from work named Reed! I cooked sausage balls, twice baked potatoes, and a pecan pie! Barlo and Reed fried wings and drumettes, and Reed made all of the sauces from scratch. It was a delicious meal, no doubt!

This wasn't what got our feet moving on making it a home, but it did help to get a fire under my butt to clean the dining room and organize my first legit piece of furniure dedicated solely to my artwork. :)!! What really pushed was having some crackhead be dropped off by a taxi, confuse Barlo and then Reed for "Brian" who she apparently thought she lived there with. I called the police and they politely (ha.) cuffed her and took the crazy lady away (creepily enough as it was, our address was on her drivers license yet our landlord had never heard of this lady). Yes, this really happened. We finally realized that we needed to get onto our landlord about changing our locks for our own sake, and just getting some stuff fixed that needed to be fixed around the house. Thankfully! We haven't heard from the crackhead again, and I'm pretty sure she won't be back.

Also--I don't want to leave out all of the awesome work my parents did for the house a few weeks ago--we would definitely not be all moved in without them! Love you guys.

In other news, I made a fruit pizza last night for Barlo and myself with strawberries, blueberries, and bananas. I cut a huge piece for us to share, but eventually ended up bringing the whole pan into the living room :) while he watched Oklahoma lose another game :( and I looked online at drapes and curtainrods.

Bringing sexy back

I don't want to sound pretentious, but a lot of people are probably going to pee their pants when I pop up on the right side of their "followers" bar. Mostly because I haven't popped up there in about three years. But also because I probably don't have much to say.

Glad to see that you stalkers are dilligent, and apparently have been reading the longer I go without posting...

For once, I'm glad I don't have anything to say. Because it made me think about what I'm going to write about: nothing! Nothing you ask? Nothing. Check out the 'scrip. This is my Seinfeld blog. So...in a sense that makes it about everything. More for myself down the line than anything, but for everyone to see. Gosh blogs are confusing things

So as things pop up, or as I have things to share, I'll actually try to post...here goes! Bets on how long I keep it up?