Sue's Gettin' Her Groove Back.

Not quite in the same fashion that Stella found hers...but the groove I'm missing is in the kitchen, not elsewhere in the home.  ;-)

Check this out, ya'll:

Baby Back Crock-Pot Ribs!

I took so many liberties with the recipe I used, that I'm going to share what I actually did, rather than what the recipe told me to do.

2 1/2 pounds pork baby back ribs

1/8 cup paprika

1/2 cup Emeril's Essence

1/2 tablespoon kosher salt

6 tablespoons sugar

2 bottles of Guinness Beer

32 ounces of Hickory Smoke BBQ Sauce

1/2 cup honey

Cut the ribs into sections containing 3 ribs each.

Combine the paprika, Essence, kosher salt, and sugar in a large metal bowl.  Rub the mixture into the ribs, and grill them for about 3 minutes per side - until they have grill marks.  (I used a cast-iron grill pan, actually - and this rub burnt on to that pan like nobody's business.  Perhaps next time I'll line it with foil first.)

Put the seared ribs in the Crock-Pot, then pour the beer over them.  Cook on high for 2 hours.  

Combine the BBQ sauce and honey in a bowl, and then add to the Crock-Pot, and cook on high for another hour and a half.

Serve over mashed potatoes.

There was a WHOLE LOT of juice left over, which we put in a container and plan to reduce down into a Guinness BBQ sauce at some point.

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.  I could quite possibly remember how to throw food on a table after all.