one local summer, week 5

Wow.  How is it already week 5!?!  

This is a little quickie post.  I've just gotten home from taking the boy to camp.  Again.  It POURED rain the entire way.  I mean, you-can-barely-see-the-road-in-front-of-you rain.  Like, your-wheels-slip-as-you're-trying-to-climb-a-hill-and-scare-the-crap-out-of-you rain.  Slightly frazzling, and I REALLY need a little nap.

Okay, here goes:

Braised Short Ribs

Roasted Potatoes

Sauteed Green Beens

For the ribs:

Preheat oven to 350

3 lbs. trimmed short ribs

rub with oil and season with salt, pepper, and fresh chopped sage

brown and remove from pan (I use a cast iron skillet)

In drippings, cook 2 onions until translucent.  Add 1 1/2 or 2 cups beef stock and bring to a boil.  Place the ribs back in the skillet, cover, and bake until tender.  About 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Pour off the juices, and top with barbeque sauce.  Broil for just a couple of minutes until the sauce crisps a bit.

For the potatoes:

This is my FAVORITE way to have potatoes.

Wash and cube as many potatoes as you will need (I like small red ones).  Toss in oil, then salt and pepper generously.  

Normally I would cook these at 400 for an hour or so, but since I'm making ribs at 350, I'll just stick them in at the same time. I like them pretty crispy!

I'm pulling oodles of green beans off of my bush plants.  WOO HOO!  We've had the first of our own carrots too, by the way.  But those never made it to the pan.

For the beans:

Clean green beens

lightly tossed in butter

and a couple of tablespoons of maple syrup

Saute until tender.

Still haven't made pasta this week.  Soon.  Very soon.

Comments

[Harley]

Yummy! Glad you posted this, I already had short ribs on my grocery list :)

[erin]

do you need the pasta machine? it's in the laundry room, in a high up cabinet. take it if you want.

and thank you. scout loves you.

[Beth]

Good luck with the pasta....myself, I just call my mother in law and put in an order - she's good like that! (maple syrup on beans? I gotta try that)

[jessica]

That's my favorite way to have potatoes as well. Now I'm really wondering when will it stop raining?!?

[heather jane]

I have short ribs in the freezer and had no idea what to do with them. I'll give this a try soon. Sounds wonderful. I'm totally with you on the potato issue. Crispy=yummy.

[laughingfamily]

Also a big fan of those potatoes. But, during the summer, we like to do them on the grill. Yummy! We have green beans fresh from this weekend's farmers market...maybe they would like to take a little soak in some maple syrup?