Lazy Saturday Barbecue

6-10 Pork Ribs
Salt and Pepper
Favorite basting oil
Favorite bottled barbecue sauce or homemade
One can of favorite baked beans
One small pkg. of 6 corn on the cob

Salt and pepper the ribs

Drizzle some basting oil and spread it all over each rib.

Cover the meat with some plastic wrap and let set about an hour.

In the mean time. . . . . . . . . . this is what you do. . . . .,

and when it's time. . . . . .if you can. . . . . . pull yourself out of your cooled, relaxed state to continue. . . .

 Take your meat and put it on your pre-heated grill.  Turn heat to low and cook the meat low and slow.

Baste the meat with the oil every time you turn it over.

While the meat is cooking, start working on anything else you're going to serve.  Pour a can of beans into a small serving dish (this is plenty for 3-4 people).  Salt and pepper.

Add  1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup ketchup.  Stir completely, heat in the microwave for five minutes.

After you've grilled the meat for about an hour, drizzle and spread some barbecue sauce on half of the grilled ribs, so that you can have half basted and half with barbecue sauce.

The corn was already husked and cooked, all I had to do was warm them up which I did on the grill (talk about lazy).  If you want to see how I cooked it with the husk on, click here.

So, it was a lazy Saturday, my house didn't need too much cleaning so I decided to just skip it completely and start on an early dinner (we usually eat early on Saturdays) and take it easy by the pool.   My hubby loves ribs but I know he was looking forward to the baked beans as well.  I used Grandma Brown's baked beans.  Unfortunately, we can't always find them in any of the stores in our town.  We first fell in love with them back when we lived in upstate NY almost 30 years ago and the only place we could get them was at Wegman's (best. grocery/market. EVER!) , there are several Wegman's up in N. VA, just a few hours away so we often go up there to do all kinds of shopping.  Anyway, these baked beans remind my hubby of his mother's homemade baked beans that she used to make.  They were never saucy or runny but thick and tasty.  He'll never touch Bush's (sorry Bush's) or any other kind - they don't compare.  Anyways. . . . . why do Saturdays have to go bye sooooo fast?!!  Oh well, I'm sitting here savoring the weekend!!

I partied at:

Grilled Corn on the Cob

6 fresh ears of corn - not husked
1 stick of butter - softten
Hot grill

Take your fresh ears of corn

Trim loose husk ends and cut off the end (this is my hubby helping me :)  )

Place all  the ear corns in a microwave (I added two more and piled them on after I took this picture) - yes, I said microwave.  Cook on high for 12-15 minutes.  Leaving the husks on will steam these ear corns better than any other kind of cover.  Why not use the natural, skin these ear corns were born with?  The husks envelop, fit over the corn like a glove.

When you take the ear corns out of the microwave be careful because they're steaming hot!  But notice how easily the husks come off - almost as smooth as silk!

Use a sharp knife to cut off the end

Cut each corn cob in 1/2 or 1/3 pieces - we like them short so you don't have to cut them if you'd rather not

Transport corn cobs to the hot grill (on medium heat).  In the meantime, put the softened the butter in a serving bowl (large enough to hold all the corn).  Grill about 15 minutes, turning often.

Roll each piece in the softened butter, one at a time until all are smothered.  Keep covered until ready to serve.

I'm not sure where I learned to cook corn on the cob like this but we've been doing it like this for years.  It's one of our favorite Summer treats as I'm sure it's a favorite for every other American in the country.  Try it and see how easy it is to husk the corn and see how delicious it is.  You won't be disappointed.