On Sat, 15 May 2021 16:16:45 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>I wrote OT because the post is about cooking, rather than about Kuthe.
>
>It was my nephew's 50th B-day celebration. We all went to a state park
>campground. I had this giant cryovac thing of pork spare ribs. I bought it frozen over a week ago, and it thawed slowly in my fridge. The grill thing
>was one of those ones with a cast iron grate, and right on the ground; it was
>essentially a fire ring, but rectangular. It was not the sort of thing you cook two big racks of ribs on. Folks there were dubious, both that it could be
>done at all, and if I would have the lasting power to accomplish it, both
>because my typical go-to-sleep time is so early, and because I was drinking
>beer.
>
>The fire was hot, and there were flames fueled by the fat from the ribs, but I
>kept at it, flipping them with a fork, and sometimes dousing the fire of
>charcoal and seasoned oak with water, but by damned I didn't make it work
>acceptably. They weren't fall-off-the-bone tender by any stretch, and there
>was a bit of burndness, but not much.
>
>I made the most of the resources that I had for cooking those ribs, and I
>brought another thing that was a hit, chip dippy salsa, which was just 3 cans
>of generic Ro-Tel, blended with 5 decent beefsteak tomatoes, a small sweet
>onion and some salt. I rode out with my son, and he got to reacquaint with
>his cousins after a few years. We've got an interesting family tree because my nephew married my wife's cousin, so my wife and I are
>great-aunt and great-uncle, respectively to their kids and she is also their first cousin, once removed. She couldn't be there because she had to work,
>but I have no doubt that the kinship ties were strengthened by this event.
>
>--Bryan

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