Well, I got some short ribs last week with the intention of smoking them, but I got sick and ended up in bed for a day and a half, didn't have time to smoke them. So I decided I needed to do something with them. Wife said just freeze them and do them later, but I was feeling better and wanted to cook. So I did! lol
I salted them up the night before. Here they are when I took them out of the fridge, left them salted and exposed on a rack, as I was going to be looking for some bark, but I went another direction, since I was short on time.
So I browned them off in the cast iron:
Here's the whole bunch - about 7 lbs worth or so, I think it was.
You may already see where I'm going with this... tossed in the pot with a few sprigs of thyme, rosemary, parsley, a cross-halved head of garlic, probably some various other stuff. A whole bottle of red wine (just an inexpensive cabernet sauvignon) and some beef broth. Little salt & pepper.
So to call them falling off the bone would have been an understatement. I think they went for about 4 hours or more in the oven.
Did a few other things to go with them:
Some smashed baby potatoes - boiled for 20 mins in salt water with a cup or so of cider vinegar, then slightly smashed, brushed with butter and broiled in the oven, flipped, brushed and broiled again - made 'em a little crispy.
You can see, there weren't many veggies left from the braised short ribs - the carrots survived, barely, but after 4 hours the onion and such had essentially disappeared. lol
The finished ribs:
And a pic of the whole thing. The asparagus was put in a gallon ziploc for a couple hours with salt & pepper, lots of chopped garlic and olive oil, then roasted in the oven till just slightly tender. Bread I did on my cast iron griddle sitting on the stovetop. Not ideal, and hard to get it how I wanted, but it was ok. Just a little melted butter and salt and garlic powder, brushed on, then grilled lightly.
So that was what I did to recover from being sick. lol. The Wife told me to go back to bed, said I didn't need to do all that, told me to take it easy, etc. But I love cooking for people! It's therapeutic for me! So it helped me recover. I'd been in bed for what seemed like forever, all I woulda done otherwise is zombie out in front of the TV watching episodes of Chopped, so... heck, this was a pretty easy dinner, overall, honestly. Slow-cooking, no pressure, take your time kinda thing.
Hope ya'll enjoyed it - the family sure did!
Only thing I would do differently - for the smoker, these ribs would be perfect. But braising them like this, the fat was kinda gooey. They came out pretty dang close to pot roast for me, which wasn't my intention, but oh well. I woulda trimmed alot of the fat off before braising. Maybe even before the browning. I dunno. Just the only things I could complain about - and I always have to complain about my own cooking! No one else sure will! lol When I said I was a little disappointed it was more like pot roast, The Wife says, "Well, you better keep practicing, then, and messing up like this!" lol Everyone else seemed to agree.
So I guess it was a success.
I salted them up the night before. Here they are when I took them out of the fridge, left them salted and exposed on a rack, as I was going to be looking for some bark, but I went another direction, since I was short on time.
So I browned them off in the cast iron:
Here's the whole bunch - about 7 lbs worth or so, I think it was.
You may already see where I'm going with this... tossed in the pot with a few sprigs of thyme, rosemary, parsley, a cross-halved head of garlic, probably some various other stuff. A whole bottle of red wine (just an inexpensive cabernet sauvignon) and some beef broth. Little salt & pepper.
So to call them falling off the bone would have been an understatement. I think they went for about 4 hours or more in the oven.
Did a few other things to go with them:
Some smashed baby potatoes - boiled for 20 mins in salt water with a cup or so of cider vinegar, then slightly smashed, brushed with butter and broiled in the oven, flipped, brushed and broiled again - made 'em a little crispy.
You can see, there weren't many veggies left from the braised short ribs - the carrots survived, barely, but after 4 hours the onion and such had essentially disappeared. lol
The finished ribs:
And a pic of the whole thing. The asparagus was put in a gallon ziploc for a couple hours with salt & pepper, lots of chopped garlic and olive oil, then roasted in the oven till just slightly tender. Bread I did on my cast iron griddle sitting on the stovetop. Not ideal, and hard to get it how I wanted, but it was ok. Just a little melted butter and salt and garlic powder, brushed on, then grilled lightly.
So that was what I did to recover from being sick. lol. The Wife told me to go back to bed, said I didn't need to do all that, told me to take it easy, etc. But I love cooking for people! It's therapeutic for me! So it helped me recover. I'd been in bed for what seemed like forever, all I woulda done otherwise is zombie out in front of the TV watching episodes of Chopped, so... heck, this was a pretty easy dinner, overall, honestly. Slow-cooking, no pressure, take your time kinda thing.
Hope ya'll enjoyed it - the family sure did!
Only thing I would do differently - for the smoker, these ribs would be perfect. But braising them like this, the fat was kinda gooey. They came out pretty dang close to pot roast for me, which wasn't my intention, but oh well. I woulda trimmed alot of the fat off before braising. Maybe even before the browning. I dunno. Just the only things I could complain about - and I always have to complain about my own cooking! No one else sure will! lol When I said I was a little disappointed it was more like pot roast, The Wife says, "Well, you better keep practicing, then, and messing up like this!" lol Everyone else seemed to agree.
So I guess it was a success.
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