Before we hit the rest of the horde at our homestead with a new recipe, we like to try it out for ourselves.
And this recipe combines 3 of our 4 favorites. Pork Ribs of any sort, bacon and ranch. The 4th is beef of course. After all, we're in Texas.
So we started by dry marinating the ribs for a day with ranch seasoning. We don't buy that in packets, we buy it in bulk.
After we had marinated, we wrapped the ribs in slices of thick home cured and smoked bacon that I made here for us. And I make a lot of it at once. We have a smokehouse on our property, and that's one of my cooking jobs.
After we wrapped the ribs, I layered them into the Crock-Pot, which we have a ton of as well. I used extra ranch dressing mix on each layer and then turned it on, and cooked them low and slow overnight. I wrapped the ribs by stretching the bacon, and tucking the ends underneath each rib and placing the ribs with the bacon seams down.
The next morning I carefully used tongs to take them out of the cooker and placed them on a foil lined baking sheet and ran them under the broiler for about 2 minutes a side to slightly crisp the bacon and then my wife and I had them for lunch.
These are a keeper, and we'll make them again for the whole horde this coming weekend!
