Ribs

My second Alton Brown recipe is ribs... with the ingredients all wrong. For one thing the recipe calls for boneless. For another thing, these are all frozen.

I tried to break them up with my hands. They're cold and it hurts!

Aha! Use two as a platform and jam a knife in!

I got them separated, but they're still frozen solid.

Nonetheless, I'm SUPPOSED to season the ribs and stick them in the fridge for 6-12 hours. I'm too hungry to do that and these are pre-seasoned, though not with the right seasoning, so I'll skip that.

They go in an aluminum foil envelope that you pour stuff into.

The recipe called for cayenne or something. I used hot sauce since I didn't have any cayenne.

Lots of pepper.

I had chili and garlic sauce, which I used in place of chili and garlic powder.

This is where I would put it in the fridge, but I'm not going to.

The recipe called for orange juice and margarita mix. Having no margarita mix I substituted wine just because

Pouring in the wine.

It's now ready to bake for two hours. At this point I realized I wasn't eating anytime soon.

After one hour the heat goes down.

Done baking!

The liquid gets poured into a saucepan.

Honey is added.

And ketchup. This is seriously the recipe, even though it looks a little weird even for me.

Mixing and boiling. There was supposed to be instant coffee in there but I don't have any.

  

I'm supposed to boil till it turns into a glaze but that's not happening.

The glaze is supposed to be brushed onto both sides but I don't have a glaze.

So instead I just dump what I have onto one side.

And then the other.

After a few minutes of broiling. Not close to done.

More broiling, these are looking done now.

But the other side is still white-ish so it's time to broil some more.

Better.

The sides need more broiling though.

THERE! Blackened!

The other side isn't blackened but it'll do.

Ribs!

A little dry, but passable, which is incredible given how much I changed the recipe.

The next day I got barbeque sauce.

That solves most of the dryness issues.