Day 303: Slow Cooker Ribs {Recipe Revealed!!}

I was worried this recipe wouldn’t work out quite right, but thankfully, it was divine.
This was my inspiration for the ribs and I followed at least the first part of the directions.

Ingredients for the dry rub for 2-3 lbs of ribs (if you’re as liberal as me with it):
•3 TBSP of paprika or close enough
•2 TBSP brown sugar
•1/4 tsp cayenne pepper or close enough
•Eyeball the salt and pepper

And don’t forget the rest…
•Mostly full 40 oz bottle of sweet baby ray’s BBQ sauce
•Oil to grease crock pot
•2-3 lbs of ribs or six as the original recipe calls for, we made a smaller batch–ours was about 4 servings.

Directions
Mix dry rub together by hand and rub it onto ribs. Spray your crock pot with oil or non-stick spray. Layer ribs in pot.
Pour BBQ sauce on top. Original recipe calls for only 3 cups but we wanted to use of all of our sauce.
Cook on low for 7 hours.

I really struggle with leaving food alone in a crockpot. This is worth it, so go busy yourself elsewhere.

The original recipe says to do a bunch of fancy stuff after your salivary have already been working.overtime for 7 hours. We skipped it and it was delicious. Our ribs were mostly thawed when we put them in, and after 7 hours they literally fell off the bone. They would not have held up to more vigorous cooking.

The dry rub takes barely ten minutes and it was so worth it. I love BBQ, but sometimes the sweet is just too sweet. Using the spices and the sauce gave a nice even flavor. For spice junkies, you will want to add a lot.

Day 302: Misty of Chincoteague

I just finished the book Misty of Chincoteague. I know it’s an ancient little kids’ book but there are so many people defined by stories like these.

The writing style was dated but sweet. I imagine if I read this when I was eight or ten years old I would have begun saving every penny to buy a pony.

Can I borrow someone’s little girl and read this story aloud to her?
Okay…that might have sounded weird.

This whoops on the back of the book had me confused for a while. It says Phantom has a male baby, when all through the book, Misty is a female.

Day 301: Sink Me

Sink me, you’ve sank my battleship!

Kit and I got a travelset version of Battleship. He had an early lead, through the middle we were neck and neck.
Finally, I found his little 2 hit ship and I won the game. Kit is adorable because he always said “You sank my battleship!” Just like the robotic voice.

Does anyone else try to put the ships diagonally every time and forget that it doesn’t work that way?

Day 300: Dog and his Bone

I love this picture of Tybalt because he isn’t just of a blur of frantic gnawing. He was smelling and inspecting the tastiest bit of his bone to go for next.
It almost looks like I’ve captured him in an intimate moment…with and inanimate object.

Day 299: Not Easy Being Blue

Figured I would take a ready for bed picture. This was not long after I got my hair cut and I was really enjoying it tumbling on my shoulder.

Yes, those are a pair of Eeyore onesie pajamas that say ‘Not easy being blue’. They’re also fleecey. They are super warm so I always reserve them for really cold nights. I usually even out my temperature by sticking a foot out from under the covers.