Calhoun St. Reunion / BBQ Rib Dinner

Last night we had a rare reunion of college housemates - with Tom and Darcy both in town and available to meet up. We decided to make three racks of ribs on our new grill, and everyone came over around 6:30pm. For the ribs, we made a spiced apple cider mop which we used to baste the ribs throughout the 3.5 hour long indirect heat cooking process. The mop consisted of apple cider, shallots, jalapenos, brown sugar, ketchup, white wine vinegar, tomato paste, salt & pepper. The ribs needed a longer cooking time than our recipe led us to believe, but they came out awesome! We made corn bread and coleslaw to go with the ribs, and for an app, a plate of prosciutto wrapped melon bites and cheese & crackers. We used the cocktail forks that Gram got in Brazil in the early 1980's and gave to me for my birthday this year:


It was so much fun to have Tom & Darcy together in one room and to reminisce about old times. Hard to believe these old times happened almost 10 years ago now!