Guys! I have been cooking so much lately that I havent had time to post all my meals to the blog. Im going to try to get caught up so you all can see how amazingly well my husband has been eating :) This one that your about to see was good, but Im not a huge meat eater so it wasnt anything special to me really. However, my thoughts dont really matter to me... its Dan opinions that count.

Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs (www.budgetbytes.com) $10.98

Ingredients

• 1 med yellow onion
• 1 rack (2.5 lbs.) pork spare ribs
• 18 oz. bbq sauce
• 1 cup apple sauce
• ½ cup apple juice
• to taste salt and pepper 

Thinly slice the onion and place it in the bottom of the slow cooker.

Cut the ribs into two rib portions. Season with salt and pepper.

Arrange half of the ribs in on top of the onion in the slow cooker. Cover with half of the BBQ sauce.

 Place the rest of the ribs on top and cover with the rest of the BBQ sauce. 

Pour the apple sauce and apple juice in around the edges of the ribs so it fills in the spaces between meat without washing off all of the BBQ sauce.

Secure the lid tightly on the slow cooker, turn on low heat and let cook for 8 hours. When the ribs are done, carefully remove them from the pot. They will be very tender and can fall apart easily so lift gently. 

 Fish out the onions and serve on top of the ribs.

Dan rated this meal a 4 out of 5 stars. It was good and easy, but not something I would crave.

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 Photo by Steve Apps of the State Journal.

The interview I did with my foodie friend Lindsay for the local newspaper here in Madison just went up today.  As you may know May is Gluten Free Awareness month so she talked to me and a couple other people in the Madison gluten free community about our experience of going without wheat.  And the most important part of the whole thing of course was the food. 

I cooked four different very photogenic loafs of bread that the papers photographer did a great job of capturing.  Ill post the recipe for the banana cardamom bread I reverse engineered from the fellas favorite gluteny recipe next week.  The other three recipes are from some of my favorite gluten free bloggers so be sure to check those out in the article as well.

It was a fun experience.  Now that people know what Im doing over here I better get back to some serious blogging.  But after all that baking I need some time off from making bread.  Im all breaded out.

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