Camping Ribs

Camping food is always a treat; you are dirty, hungry, and generally ready to tear into anything you can get your hands on. Over the weekend we went on a short camping trip with friends and decided to really make a dinner fit for camping.

Dinner

§            BBQed Ribs

§            Baked Red Potatoes

§            Corn on the Cob

Since we were camping we paired this with beer, Bud Light to be exact, delicious and refreshing.

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The Perfect BBQed Ribs

3-4 Pounds Beef Ribs

4 Tbs Water

2 Tsp Hickory Flavored Liquid Smoke

Bottle of BBQ Sauce (homemade or Sweet Baby Rays are our favorites)

Heavy Duty Tin Foil

1. Start warming your grill (med high heat). Cut the ribs up into sections of 2-3 ribs.
2. Place the 2 sections of ribs on tin foil and fold up into a “pouch” (so that liquid placed in the tin foil can’t leak), leaving one side open. Repeat until you are out of ribs.
3. Mix together the water and liquid smoke then pour evenly into each pouch. Seal the end of the pouches.
4. Before you place the ribs on the grill, be sure to turn off the burners directly under where the ribs will be placed. You want indirect heat. We have 4 burners on our grill, so I turn off the two middle ones and place the ribs there, with the two on the outer edges still burning.
5. “Smoke” the ribs like this for 1-1.5 hours, turning the ribs every 20 minutes or so.
6. Remove the ribs from the tinfoil and place back on the grill, same indirect heat as before. Brush one side with BBQ sauce and let it caramelize (lid closed) for 10-15 minutes. Flip the rib, brush other side with BBQ sauce, let caramelize for another 10-15 minutes. Repeat this until you get the BBQ sauce consistency you like (takes me about 4 cycles of this, 2 times on each side).

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