Yeah, we had game food porn yesterday

I tell you what, this jet-set lifestyle is going to kill me. The whole running errands, doing yard work, cooking game food, watching games and working 60 hours a week is a drag. And not a damn jet in sight.

Anyway, yeah, yesterday we fixed some game food, which means we have game food porn. We did ribs, which you might remember from Memorial Day food porn, or you might not. Doesn't matter, because we did this one just a little differently, and I have to say, best ribs to date. So we start with a couple racks of baby back ribs of the pork variety.

Cut these into two- or three-rib sections:

Place them in a large pot of water and bring them to a boil. Boil for about 20 minutes. Your ribs are now fully cooked. Everything that follows is to make them tender and taste good:

Take those boiled ribs -- please, let them cool before you do this, or else you will burn the living shit out of your hands -- and put a barbecue rub on them. I use Famous Dave's -- at least right now -- but you can use whatever you like.  Serious barbecue folks have their favorite rubs that they usually order online, but Famous Dave's is probably one of the better rubs available in grocery stores. Experiment, people, and find what you like, then put it on the damn ribs:

On a charcoal grill, fire up some wood chunks. I use hickory because it is what I can get around here. White oak is best, mesquite only works for Texas beef. Applewood is for fru-fru losers. If you can't get white oak, get hickory. Let the fire get going:

Put the ribs on without putting any ribs directly over the flames:

Cover and let that smoke work its taste magic:

You will need a sauce. I use King's Barbecue Sauce. I order it online from King's  in Petersburg, Va. Dinwiddie County, Va., is the birthplace of barbecue, so I go to the source. There is other good sauce out there. Find one you like.

After smoking your ribs for about 2 hours (more if you can) pull them from the grill, put them in a cooking pan and sauce them up. Cover with foil, put them in the oven at about 250 degrees F and let them roll for at least 4 hours, 6 hours if you can:

Tender ribs, guaranteed:

What with the Packers being the 4 o'clock game, I figured game food would be dinner, so vegetables were in order:

Potatoes are a vegetable (and so are the green onions in stuffed skins), so they were on the menu:

As a bonus, Mrs. Wolves suggested that I turn Saturday night's magnificent chicken parmesan into individual servings with toothpicks and reheat, so I did:

All in all, great game food. Sorry the wings got bumped by the chicken parmesan, but I promise wings for next week. Bon appetit.