I should start out about introducing you to the two things in my life that bring me so much pleasure. The first is my 2 French Bulldogs: Stains and Cooper and the second is cooking. I graduated from culinary school in 2005 but I am too laid back for the fast paced careers of the food industry so I use my skills at home.
My Frenchies are very much like my kids. They are very demanding of my attention and I am consumed with guilt if I cannot provide that attention constantly. I was trying to decide what made me this way and there are three incidents that stick out in my mind. The first was when I went to the park with my Grandma and Grandpa as a kid. There was a duck pond and one of the ducks had a fish hook coming out of his neck. He was sitting on people's laps because the other ducks would violently attack him when he got near. I begged my grandpa to take him to the vet to get the hook removed but he refused. I was so mad at him. Then another time I was riding with my mom and we picked up two dogs that had been left to wander on the side of the road. We had them for 4 days but one was very aggressive and my mom worried about her bitting a neighbor or one of us so she brought them both to the pound. It broke both our hearts. The last was I had an irresonsible boyfriend who adopted a puppy from the pound and decided he didnt want him anymore and left him at the pound. These three incidents have made me want to give every future pet I get the best life they can possibly have. My Frenchies were not rescue dogs they are actually both from expensive pet stores but that doesn't mean they can't have all the love I can offer them. They sleep in bed with me and my boyfriend every night. They eat people food and have clothes and leather collers and go to the Bark Park. Maybe the love I give my two dogs makes the world a little better, or at least I like to think so.
In terms of cooking I like to expierement with different recipes but today I am going to talk about ribs that fall off the bone and are so delicious. I only use baby back ribs, I find spare ribs too fatty. I fill a stock pot with beer (usually Bud Light or Papps Blue Ribbon), water and chicken broth. I season the ribs with salt, pepper, garlic powder and chili powder and boil in the beer mixture for an hour. I then coat them with BBQ sauce (I like Q Teryaki BBQ sauce) and my boyfriend throws them on the grill on high just to make the outside crispy. They are so delicious and are even better if you make some macaroni and cheese. For the love of Frenchies and Southern BBQ, bye bye for now.