Ribs and Beans

[Cliff Bartlett]

One of my very favorite cooks, especially when the weather starts to turn warm. I picked up a pack of baby backs a few weeks ago at Costco. I had planned to do my go to beans as a side for the ribs. I just knew I had 4 cups of dry pintos in our pantry. After tearing the kitchen apart for about half hour, I conceded I didn't. Rather than going another direction, my wife encouraged me to go with what we had. I combined partial bags of pintos, black, Navy and kidney beans and just barely got my four cups. Sheeesh, I hate it when that happens, but I wasn't going to town for a bag of beans. Finally cooked up some skillet yellow squash to round things out.

Did some minor trimming on one of the racks and seasoned with Stanley's Rib Rub. Got it on my 18" WSM holding steady at 225, pecan chunks for smoke.



I got my bean assortment going in my dutch oven along with a couple of small ham hocks.



Took a peek at the two hour mark.



After a couple of hours added onion, red bell pepper and garlic.





Ribs are getting there. About 3 hours in here.





Beans getting there.





Got some quick skillet squash going.



Plated it up.



I was happy with this meal. The ribs were really flavorful and tender. Could have pulled off a half hour sooner as the meat was just a little "too fall off the bone" tender, but delicious just the same. Beans and squash rounded things off really well. Thanks for looking everyone.

 

[Rich G]

Excellent looking meal, Cliff. I can't see how you could possibly not have been happy with it! My favorite picture is the plated one....looks like the right proportion of ribs to beans to squash!

R

 

[russ olin]

Great cook Cliff, cant go wrong with that one.

 

[Rich Dahl]

Very nice plate there Cliff and nice save on the beans.

 

[Morgan C.]

Killer meal love it! I’m a big fan of beans like that too! Keep on showing those cooks off!

 

[Bruno]

Those beans look great!

 

[Wilfredo Vargas]

Excellent dinner!