Here at Shoestring Austin, we are nothing if not cheap gourmands. Except for one other thing: sometimes, we are pretty darn lazy. Cooking occasionally takes a back seat when you’re going about your daily business, get swamped with work, or have a family member in the hospital in another state whom you’re concerned about. (Hi, Mom! Hope you’re feeling better!)

In any case, we’ve come up with a completely fool-proof recipe, for fools like us who can’t concentrate on cooking all the time.

In honor of the motto on the BBQ sauce we elected to use in this recipe, we’ve named it Good to the Bone Country-Style Ribs. Here’s what you need:

• 2 lbs. country-style pork ribs
• 1 jar Texas-Texas BBQ sauce
• 1 large shallot (that’s a fancy onion; you can substitute a red onion as you see fit)

That’s it, that’s all! We told you this was easy, right?

Here’s the entire set of directions: Cook for 5 hours on high in your slow-cooker. Seriously, what could be simpler?

Okay, here’s a couple of notes for y’all: layer onions, ribs, and more onions on top so you can soak up the tasty goodness. Trim off the fat a bit, cus gnawing through the gristle isn’t very nice (but a little fat is pretty tasty). And then just let ‘er rip!

Here’s a photo of our results:

Delicious Good to the Bone Country-Style Ribs

Final bit of advice: check around at your local grocery store, as sometimes the packages are mislabelled and you can score, like, 5 lbs of ribs for something crazy like 30 cents. Um… not that we did that. At a store that shall remain nameless. (Tip: Be calm at the cash. Don’t give yourself away. Channel Bart Simpson. You didn’t see me do it. Nobody saw anything…)

Wine recommendation: pair it with a nice Chardonnay or Pinot Gris. Superb! Or drink beer if you must. This is Texas, after all.

The Dining Companion (DC) and I will be fighting over the leftovers tomorrow!