Slow Cooker Easy BBQ Ribs Recipe

Ribs have never been so simple, and tasty!

Slow Cooker Easy BBQ Ribs Recipe
3-4 lbs.    Pork or Beef Ribs (remove membrane)
                  Bottle of your favorite BBQ Sauce (I like Sweet Baby Ray's or Bull's Eye)
1                Onion, quartered
                  Salt and Pepper
                  Garlic (I use Granulated Garlic powder)

Lay onion on bottom of slow cooker.  Top with Ribs.  Add salt, pepper and garlic.  Top with 1/2 bottle of BBQ sauce.  Cook on high for 5 hours, low for 7 hours.   Remove from slow cooker, finish on grill or in oven at 325-350 for 20 minutes.  Baste with sauce.  Top with sauce before serving.

Note:  I use slow cooker liners for easy clean up.  I've also used my BBQ sauce recipe (see earlier post) with tasty results.  You don't have to finish on the grill or oven, but I like the crust that forms by doing so.  You can serve straight from the slow cooker, but make sure to top with extra sauce as much of the sauce mixes and washes off with the oil from the ribs.

Tip: Roll aluminum foil into balls, place on bottom of slow cooker so oil from ribs will fall to bottom and your ribs won't sit in oil while cooking.

Slow Cooker Easy Beef Stew Recipe

I like this recipe because it involves very little prep, many of the ingredients you probably have in your kitchen, and its quick, simple, and tasty.  Leave and go...love it!!  I will post a picture soon, but every time I make this stew, my family eats it too quickly to get a photo!

Slow-Cooker Easy Beef Stew

3-4 lbs Stew cut beef, seasoned well with salt and pepper

1          Onion, quartered

3          Large Carrots, cut in half

3          Large Potatoes, cut in thirds

3          Celery stalks, cut in half

1          Onion soup packet*

1 can   Mushroom soup*

1/4 c.  Milk*

½ can  Beef broth (may substitute chicken broth)

After seasoning beef, lightly toss in flour.

Add onion, meat and vegetables to the slow-cooker. 

Combine soup packet and can of mushroom soup.  Add to pot.

Cook on high for 5-5.5 hours or low for 8 hours.

*Other variations:
Variation A:

1 can tomato paste

1 can brown sugar (use the tomato paste can)

1 can shoyu (soy sauce)

½ can beef broth

Variation B:

1 packet aus jus seasoning

1 packet Good Seasoning salad dressing

1 can Beef Broth