BBQ Beef Ribs and Rice...

I love BBQ. And making a freezer meal with BBQ beef was alot of fun. Remember that you want the meals to be all-inclusive, so throw in what you like in a meal. I started this one by taking 6 large boneless ribs, dousing them with BBQ sauce (I make my own, recipe on the bottom) and putting them in the oven at 325 degrees for about an hour. Remove from oven and let cool. Skim fat off the top and discard. Make sure to save the rest of the BBQ liquid.

Cook up some rice using chicken stock instead of water. The flavor is amazing.

Place enough frozen corn on the bottom of your freezer pan and reach to all four corners. Next, place about an inch and a half of rice over the corn; spread evenly. Cut the ribs into bite-sized slices and spread over the rice. Take the juice from the ribs and mix with 1 cup of BBQ sauce; pour this over the contents of the pan. Cover and freeze.

Thaw this all the way before cooking. If you take it out of the freezer in the morning before work, it should be ready by 5PM. Cook for an hour at 325. Enjoy, Gandy

Beef Rib BBQ Sauce...

2 cups ketchup

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup white vinegar

1/2 cup light brown sugar

1/8 cup smoked paprika

2 Tbsp chili powder

2 tsp cayenne pepper

1/4 cup olive oil

1 Tbsp minced garlic

Mix the ketchup, water, vinegar, brown sugar, smoked paprika, cayenne and chili powder in a medium sized bowl; set aside. Heat olive oil in a skillet; sauté the garlic for 1 minute. Add dry mixture and heat to a boil; remove from heat. (You want to melt the sugar but not kill the sauce.)