The twenty-sixth recipe I made for French Fridays with Dorie, from Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table cookbook, was Cola and Jam Spareribs found on page 280.
All the ingredients in this recipe sounded interesting and for that alone, I figured it was worth a try. I marinated the ribs for 9 hours, baked them in the oven, and basted them for about 2 hours.
The results were amazingly wonderful and delicious, just look at them, aren't they wonderful? The ribs were tender, flavorful with a sweet apricot/citrus/spicy tang to them.
Mark and I think they are worth a repeat. One of Matt's favorite things to eat are barbecued ribs, so he was "happy to have eaten these once, they are very good, but they won't replace my favorite barbecue ones, right?" Enough said...we'll have these again sometime after Matt goes off to college, and in the meantime, I love Dorie's method so I am thinking I can use the same method with the barbecue recipe. Definitely a repeat.
