Meaty with a dash of veggies
Spare ribs or baby back ribs?
The thoughtful answer would be: it depends on how the ribs are meant to be cooked. Most associate pork ribs with the grill / smoker but, really, they are more versatile than that. They can be roasted, braised, stewed or cooked into a soup dish.
For grilling or roasting, I prefer spare ribs over baby back ribs. Come to think of it, I’ve been a spare ribs barbecue girl from the first time my father came home with a rack of bony meat that he seasoned and threw on the grill. I must have been in the first or second grade. I learned the name …

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