Oven Glazed Country Style Ribs & Italian Potato Salad 6.6.09

Oven Glazed Country Style Ribs

Boneless Country Style Pork Ribs (I had 5 in the package I bought)
1 can Mountain Dew
2 tsp dry mustard
1/4 cup Lite Soy Sauce
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp Liquid Smoke
1 tbsp diced pickled jalapeno peppers
2 tbsp olive oil
Garlic Salt & Pepper, to taste
BBQ Sauce (I like Sweet Baby Ray's)

Wash the pork pieces and place in a casserole dish (or you can do this in a ZipLoc Bag). Combine the next 6 ingredients, pour over the pork, cover (or seal the bag) and refrigerate for several hours.

Drain the marinade, reserving about 1/2 cup. Place the reserved marinade in a 9x13" baking dish. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Season and brown the drained pork well on both sides in the skillet. Place pork in the 9x13" pan with the marinade, cover and seal tightly with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until very tender. Remove the foil, spoon a generous amount of BBQ sauce on each piece of pork and return to the oven for about 10 minutes.

Italian Potato Salad

6 medium potatoes, cut into small chunks
1 tbsp dehydrated minced onion
1/3 cup Italian salad dressing
2 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
2 tsp dill weed
Sweet Pickle Relish, about 1/3 cup
Yellow Mustard, 1 tbsp more or less
Mayonnaise

Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender. Drain and immediately add minced onion and Italian salad dressing. Let cool.

Combine potato mixture, chopped eggs, dill, sweet relish, mustard and enough mayonnaise to bind all together. Cover and refrigerate until serving time but at least 2 hours.

I'd give the pork a "9" and the potato salad a "7 1/2". Yummy!