{"id":12215,"date":"2017-03-26T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2017-03-26T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:28:11","slug":"wine-garlic-anchovy-spare-rib-braise-sweet-potatoes-kale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=12215","title":{"rendered":"wine-garlic-anchovy spare rib braise; sweet potatoes; kale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t seem to have cooked pork ribs since I began\u00a0this blog. I now realize\u00a0that was a mistake.<\/p>\n

The little package of ‘baby back ribs<\/a>‘ lay on top of the farmer’s iced box of various pork cuts at the Union Square Greenmarket. I had already picked out 2 small pork chops, but the neat tidiness of the square\u00a0package, and the realization that it had been something like, ..forever, since I’d cooked pork ribs,\u00a0was enough to persuade me to go for them as well.<\/p>\n

My only concern was\u00a0their modest weight (a hair over one pound), but I knew that I could add at least 2 very good vegetables to fill out our\u00a0plates.<\/p>\n

I chose some red sweet potatoes,<\/p>\n

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and some beautiful kale.<\/p>\n

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Another\u00a0question became critical only once I started to plan the meal. How was I going to cook the ribs? I had no experience of my own, and I had never paid enough attention to what my Mother did to make them one of our favorite meals in the middle of the last century.<\/p>\n

The suggestions\u00a0I saw on line seemed too southwest barbecue-y (not really my thing and not really an indoor stove thing). \u00a0At first I thought there wasn’t\u00a0anything useful in my paper\u00a0files, but then Mark Bittman came to the rescue: I uncovered a\u00a03-year-old New York Times clipping, ‘3 Ways to Do Ribs<\/a>‘, where one of the recipes fit my parameters and looked very promising, for several reasons.<\/p>\n

It was an excellent recipe; it was delicious, required few ingredients and relatively little attention, and it also allows for a number of variations.<\/p>\n