What's Cooking Wednesday - Not Ribs Ribs

Another recipe from my beloved Sandi Richard of Fixing Dinner fame. Now if you know me you know I have issues with bones in my meat. I really detest it. Wait that might not be a strong enough statement. Anyway, by and large all the meat eaten in this house is of the boneless variety. Now there are, of course, instances when boneless may not be an option. For example chicken wings and ribs. Of course now we have boneless wings (or flings) which are the greatest invention maybe ever. So when I came across this recipe offering me up boneless ribs well you just know I had to give it a shot.


Problem the first, Mike offered to do the grocery shopping. By himself. Yeah, I was skeptical too. However I made him a list and sent him off to the vast jungle that is the SuperWalMart. On the list I had written, very specifically, two pounds of thick beef sirloin steak.



What I got was decidedly less than two pounds of marinating round steak.

Mike: Is that steak okay? Because there were all these different kinds and I didn't know which kind to get.
Me: Well I can understand why you would be confused. It's too bad somebody didn't take the time to write out exactly what you needed to buy.

Okay that last part I only said in my head. I mean he did try. He failed miserably, but he did try. I gotta give him points for that.



Not Ribs Ribs

1 jar VH honey garlic sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
2 lbs thick beef sirloin steak

The night before: combine honey garlic sauce, ketchup and cayenne pepper in the center of the crock pot; stir to combine.

Cut up steak into long chunky pieces (approx. 3 inches long). Place meat in crock pot. Stir meat and sauce together. Cover and let stand overnight in the fridge. In the morning plug slow cooker in, set to low and cook all day.

Recipe Notes: Okay so what did I do about the inadequate meat selection? Well I did happen to have a package of braising ribs in the freezer from Grandma Linda. Now I'm still not sure what exactly a braising rib is or what you're supposed to do with it, but I figured what's the worst that could happen by throwing it in the crock pot? In the end I think the braising ribs turned out nicer than the steak. The steak, as you could see, had very little marbling where the ribs had substantially more. So the ribs had more of a rib taste (go figure). Also because they were braising ribs they had huge ass bones in them. Bones that had fallen out of the meat during the cooking process so they weren't even an issue for me at dinner time. All in all it was an okay meal, not great, but alright. 2.5/5

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