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Recipe from Alton Brown

Start your preparation the day before you intend to cook the ribs.

• 2 racks of baby back ribs
• heavy duty aluminum foil
• very large baking dish (I use an aluminum baking tray that is sold around thanksgiving to put a turkey in)

Dry rub

1. 8 tbs light brown sugar
2. 3 tbs kosher salt
3. 1 tbs chili powder
4. 1/2 tsp black pepper
5. 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
6. 1/2 tsp Old Bay
7. 1/2 tsp rubbed thyme
8. 1/2 tsp onion powder

Mix all ingredients together and set aside.  Place 2 long sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil on the table, shiny side down.  Place one rack of the ribs on each.  Coat each rack with 1/2 of the dry rub mixture.  Pat lightly into the meat.  Fold the foil closed carefully, sides first, then ends trying not to enclose them tightly around the meat – leave some space inside the pouch.  Place both pouches in the baking tray and refrigerate overnight.

Braising liquid

1. 1 cup white wine
2. 2 tbs white wine vinegar
3. 2 tbs Worcestershire sauce
4. 1 tbs honey
5. 3-5 cloves garlic

Perheat oven to 250 degrees.

Chop garlic and combine all the braising liquid ingredients together in a microwavable container (I use my Pyrex measuring cup).  Microwave for 1 minute.

Open one end of each foil pouch carefully and pour 1/2 the liquid into each.  Reseal the pouches.  Bake in the oven for about 2 1/2 – 3 hours.

After baking, carefully pour the liquid out of each pouch into a saucepan.  Simmer on the stove and reduce the liquid by 1/2 (until it is syrupy)  Cut the ribs into 2 bone sections and put in a bowl to serve.  Pour the reduced liquid over them.

1. 1 3/4 cup flour
2. 3/4 tsp salt
3. 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
4. 1/2 tsp baking soda
5. 2/3 cup sugar
6. 1/3 cup shortening
7. 2 eggs
8. 2 tbs soy milk
9. 1 cup mashed bananas

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease and flour a loaf pan.

Mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.  Set aside.

With a mixer, cream sugar and shortening in bowl until fluffy, then add eggs slowly (and milk) while mixing.

Alternate adding flour mixture and bananas beating until smooth.

Bake for 60 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.  Cool 10 minutes and remove from pan to a wire rack.

Stock (same as for Chicken Soup)

1. chicken carcase (left over from baking a whole chicken, usually the day before then removing the meat)
2. chicken giblets (minus the livers)
3. 1 chicken bullion cube
4. 1 onion
5. 3-5 cloves garlic
6. Old Bay
7. ground black pepper
8. cayenne pepper (a small amount)

Add everything to a large pot then fill with water about 1/2 full.  Bring to a boil, then simmer stirring occasionally for 3-6 hours.  Strain the liquid off into another pot.  (It may be saved in the refrigerator if you aren’t making the soup until the next day)

Soup

1. stock
2. 2 cups small lentils
3. 2 tomatoes
4. 1 onion
5. 2 tbs tomato paste
6. 3-5 cloves garlic
7. 1/2 cup olive oil
8. 3 tbs chopped parsley
9. 1 tsp basil
10. 2 bay leaves

Chop onion and tomatoes.  Add all the ingredients to a large pot of water and bring to a boil.  Simmer for 1 hour.

Remove bay leaves before serving.

1. 2 cans creamed corn
2. 2 eggs
3. 2 tbs sugar
4. 1/4 cup flour
5. 2 tbs margarine
6. bit of soy milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a shallow baking dish.

Beat eggs then add the rest of the ingredients.  Bake for about 1 hour (maybe a little more)

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Sitting at the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet I had a relavation.

The table next to us was discussing things that Jesus would have liked or disliked. Being in the South I didn’t find this all that strange.

I personally think Jesus would have liked the Pepper Chicken. Then I realized he would have liked the whole idea of an all-you-can-eat buffet. I can go up and get the fish and rolls and when I go back again there is magically more. I could keep going back again and again and feed the masses.

Perhaps Jesus started the whole concept of the all-you-can-eat buffet..

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1)  The TV stations put up weather watch bulletins on the bottom of every show two days before the snow is supposed to start.
2)  The top news story on every news report is how horrible the snow is going to be.
3)  The supermarkets look like this:

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