The easiest oven-baked beef ribs recipe you’ll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins.

The easiest oven-baked beef rib recipe you'll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins. From BakingMischief.com - 1

Looking for more summer favorites? Try my Tri-tip in the Oven , S’mores Cupcakes , and Slowcooker BBQ Tri-tip Sandwiches .

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you had a productive and fruitful week and have some awesome and/or awesomely relaxing weekend plans!

Wednesday, for Nerd Month (more on Nerd Month here ), we paid homage to a scene from Happy Endings , one of my favorite television comedies, by making Strawberry Mimosas so that we might all speak better Italian.

In that scene, we learn that while Penny speaks fluent Italian when drunk, Alex just eats ribs.

So today we are going to follow up Wednesday’s recipe with with that classic brunch mimosa pairing: oven-baked ribs.

Just go with it.

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Before we start, I’m just going to stop and say, BBQ devotees, turn away now. This recipe is going to make you so angry.

People who just really want some ribs without spending three hours slow roasting them or manning a grill, come this way.

There’s a category of recipes I call “good enough” recipes. It’s not something I write about often or see highlighted in the cooking community, because “good enough” isn’t exactly a compelling selling point, but I think they are valuable recipes for home cooks. They’re solid, tasty, uncomplicated, and easy. This is one of those.

I love beef ribs, but for the longest time, I didn’t make them because the process to get “fall-off-the-bone tender” meat was too much for me. Then one day in college, I really wanted some ribs, and I made these. And they were great.

The easiest oven-baked beef rib recipe you'll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins. From BakingMischief.com - 4 The easiest oven-baked beef rib recipe you'll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins. From BakingMischief.com - 5

The meat wasn’t falling off the bone like you’d get with perfectly cooked Short Ribs , but it had a beautifully baked coat of my favorite BBQ sauce on it and was exactly what I had been craving. My friends and I enjoyed the hell out of those ribs, and I’ve been making this recipe ever since.

These Oven-baked Beef Ribs are one of the easiest dinners you’ll find, and honestly, one of my lazy afternoon summer faves, especially served alongside Mashed Potatoes or a Small Macaroni Salad .

This is what you need: cheap beef back ribs and your favorite BBQ sauce.

This is what you do: Stick the beef ribs in the oven. Wait. Put some BBQ sauce on there. Wait a little longer. Eat.

It doesn’t get any simpler than that. The worst part is cutting the ribs apart if you buy a rack and waiting while they cool before you start devouring them. I have the burns on my fingers to prove it…

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Are you a BBQ fan? Do you have any “good enough” recipes you love? Tell me about them!

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Ingredients

  • ▢ Rack of beef back ribs
  • ▢ Your favorite barbeque sauce

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F and cover a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
  • Cut ribs apart and lay them fat-side down on the sheet, not touching.
  • Bake for 45 minutes.
  • Brush generously with barbecue sauce.
  • Bake for 15 more minutes.*
  • Apply another coat of barbecue sauce if desired.
  • Eat and enjoy.

Notes

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Strawberry Mimosas make brunch even better with a simple but beautiful upgrade to your classic mimosa recipe.

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Did you watch Happy Endings while it was on? I was such a massive fan of this show. It was the best of the Friends -style comedies that everyone was making a few years ago and so packed full of jokes that you could watch each episode twenty times and still find new things to laugh at. If you haven’t seen it, all three seasons are available on Hulu.

This recipe is actually part one of a two-part recipe pairing (come back Friday for part two) from one of my favorite Happy Endings episodes, in which characters, Penny and Alex, both drink about a million mimosas with very different results.

You’ll see what happens to Alex on Friday (or watch that clip, it’s very funny), but Penny finds she can speak fluent Italian when she’s drunk.

And guys, this is legit. I may have consumed these photo shoot mimosas , and let’s just say, my Italian, post- mimosas was great .

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To be honest, I don’t actually love straight mimosas because I’m not a huge orange juice fan, but I desperately wanted to do this recipe pairing, so I got creative.

I added a simple homemade strawberry syrup to the mix to give it a slightly tarter, sharper sweetness and oh man, that little upgrade made all the difference. I could drink so many of these.

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They are also just straight up beautiful. I mean, look at them. Don’t you want to invite all of your friends over and let them admire your handiwork while you drink sparkling wine and speak terrible Italian together? Don’t you!?

Usually mimosas are made with Champagne. I used prosecco because of the Italian theme and because it’s what the internet tells me all the cool kids are doing now. You can also use cava or whatever dry sparkling wine you have on hand. If you don’t do alcohol, I also heartily recommend using seltzer or club soda to make mocktails.

How ever you enjoy them, these will make for a lovely addition to any brunch.

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Ingredients

Strawberry Syrup

  • ▢ 1/2 cup ( 100 g) granulated sugar
  • ▢ 1/2 cup water
  • ▢ 1 cup ( 6 oz) sliced strawberries
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Mimosas

  • ▢ Orange Juice chilled
  • ▢ 1 bottle Champagne, prosecco, or cava chilled
  • ▢ Strawberries and orange slices for garnish

Instructions

Strawberry Syrup

  • In a small sauce pan, combine sugar and water. Heat over medium until sugar dissolves completely.
  • Add strawberries and lemon juice and bring to a boil. Turn down to a simmer and cook for 15 to 17 minutes, stirring occasionally, until mixture is thickened and syrupy.
  • Strain through a fine-mesh strainer and transfer to a jar. Store in the refrigerator and allow to cool before using in drinks.

Assemble

  • Add 1 tablespoon of strawberry syrup to the bottom of your glass. Fill glass 1/3* of the way full with orange juice. Fill the rest of the way with champagne.
  • Stir, garnish, and enjoy.

Notes

Nutritional Information

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Saturday Morning Snapshot

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Made crepes for the first time today! They were somehow both more and less difficult than I had anticipated, but so good.

State of the Blog

How was everyone’s week? Mine was preeeeety great because I was gifted a kitchen torch and have spent every day since dreaming of all the delightful foods I can set alight with it. Do you have any handy kitchen gadgets you love? I haven’t been this excited about one since I got my first immersion blender.

On the blog, we continue to make our way through Nerd Month . If you don’t know what Nerd Month is, you can read about it in my ( Person of Interest ) Sencha Green Tea Doughnuts post . This week we had a recipe from American Gods , and then a mimosa and rib recipe combo for Wednesday and Friday from the dearly departed Happy Endings .

Fun story about that photo shoot, I shot those ribs and mimosas the same day as my Jello Shots with Triple Sec Whipped Cream , so my total consumption of food that day ended up being ribs, mimosas, and the boozed-up whipped cream from like five of those jello shots. It was delightful day. 😉

Next week, there’s an easy side dish, a classic breakfast recipe with added bacon, and then we’ll end Nerd month with a final boozy treat. I can’t wait for you to see it!

Recipes/posts released this week were:

Easy Beef Pasties - 21 Easy Beef Pasties - 22 Strawberry Mimosas - 23 Strawberry Mimosas - 24 No-Fuss Easy Oven-Baked Ribs - 25 No-Fuss Easy Oven-Baked Ribs - 26

Easy Beef Pasties – Buttery, flaky buttermilk pie crust wrapped around a savory mixture of steak, carrots, potatoes, and onions, seasoned with oregano and rosemary, and cooked in an easy homemade gravy. These hand pies one of my favorite recipes to ever come out of my kitchen!

Strawberry Mimosas – Strawberry Mimosas make brunch even better with a simple but beautiful upgrade to your classic mimosa recipe.

No-Fuss Easy Oven-Baked Ribs – The easiest oven-baked beef rib recipe you’ll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins.

Pop-culture Corner

It was TV Upfront week, when all the networks announce their fall schedules and release clips of their new shows. Did you watch any of the pilot trailers? Anything catch your fancy? I’m hoping there are some good ones in there to make up for last week’s cancellation bloodbath .

Ewan McGregor is joining Fargo for season 3 (!!), confirming my suspicion that no one in the world is better at their job than the Fargo casting director. So. Excited. Preacher premieres this weekend! Are you going to be watching? Early reviews have been great, and I really enjoyed the quick read through I did of the first volume of the comics a few weeks ago, so it’ll have my eyeballs.

Did you catch the new Star Trek Beyond trailer ? What did you think? My reactions went: 1)Ah, look at all the people I like in this cast. 2)Shohreh Aghdashloo has the best voice for voice overs–she and Ben Whishaw can just narrate my dreams, please 3)Was that just Idris Elba? WHY DOES HOLLYWOOD KEEP MAKING OUR MOST TALENTED ACTORS ACT THROUGH 10,000 LAYERS OF PROSTHETICS!!?? Guys, I’m just really bitter. Between this and Oscar Isaac in X-Men: Apocalypse , there’s a lot of handsome and charisma going to waste.

Does anyone watch Bob’s Burgers ? They had a horse camp episode last week and as a formerly horse-crazy little girl (now horse-owning grown up lady) I have never related to anything as much as I did to Tina desperately wanting a magical relationship with a camp horse and completely failing to get it (seriously, I have never known a creature less likely to want to be your friend than a summer camp horse).

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Fox via TheRabbitEars

Meal Planning

Saturday: Mom’s Sunday Beef Stew Sunday: Spaghetti Monday: Rosemary Chicken and Potatoes Tuesday: Light and Healthy BLT Salad Wednesday: Easy Homemade Panini Thursday: Zuppa Friday: Leftovers

The easiest oven-baked beef ribs recipe you’ll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins.

The easiest oven-baked beef rib recipe you'll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins. From BakingMischief.com - 28

Looking for more summer favorites? Try my Tri-tip in the Oven , S’mores Cupcakes , and Slowcooker BBQ Tri-tip Sandwiches .

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you had a productive and fruitful week and have some awesome and/or awesomely relaxing weekend plans!

Wednesday, for Nerd Month (more on Nerd Month here ), we paid homage to a scene from Happy Endings , one of my favorite television comedies, by making Strawberry Mimosas so that we might all speak better Italian.

In that scene, we learn that while Penny speaks fluent Italian when drunk, Alex just eats ribs.

So today we are going to follow up Wednesday’s recipe with with that classic brunch mimosa pairing: oven-baked ribs.

Just go with it.

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Before we start, I’m just going to stop and say, BBQ devotees, turn away now. This recipe is going to make you so angry.

People who just really want some ribs without spending three hours slow roasting them or manning a grill, come this way.

There’s a category of recipes I call “good enough” recipes. It’s not something I write about often or see highlighted in the cooking community, because “good enough” isn’t exactly a compelling selling point, but I think they are valuable recipes for home cooks. They’re solid, tasty, uncomplicated, and easy. This is one of those.

I love beef ribs, but for the longest time, I didn’t make them because the process to get “fall-off-the-bone tender” meat was too much for me. Then one day in college, I really wanted some ribs, and I made these. And they were great.

The easiest oven-baked beef rib recipe you'll ever find. All you need is two ingredients, one hour, and a whole lot of napkins. From BakingMischief.com - 30

The meat wasn’t falling off the bone like you’d get with perfectly cooked Short Ribs , but it had a beautifully baked coat of my favorite BBQ sauce on it and was exactly what I had been craving. My friends and I enjoyed the hell out of those ribs, and I’ve been making this recipe ever since.

These Oven-baked Beef Ribs are one of the easiest dinners you’ll find, and honestly, one of my lazy afternoon summer faves, especially served alongside Mashed Potatoes or a Small Macaroni Salad .

This is what you need: cheap beef back ribs and your favorite BBQ sauce.

This is what you do: Stick the beef ribs in the oven. Wait. Put some BBQ sauce on there. Wait a little longer. Eat.

It doesn’t get any simpler than that. The worst part is cutting the ribs apart if you buy a rack and waiting while they cool before you start devouring them. I have the burns on my fingers to prove it…

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Are you a BBQ fan? Do you have any “good enough” recipes you love? Tell me about them!

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Ingredients

  • ▢ Rack of beef back ribs
  • ▢ Your favorite barbeque sauce

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F and cover a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
  • Cut ribs apart and lay them fat-side down on the sheet, not touching.
  • Bake for 45 minutes.
  • Brush generously with barbecue sauce.
  • Bake for 15 more minutes.*
  • Apply another coat of barbecue sauce if desired.
  • Eat and enjoy.

Notes

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No-Fuss Easy Oven-Baked Beef Ribs

Ingredients

  • Rack of beef back ribs
  • Your favorite barbeque sauce

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F and cover a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
  • Cut ribs apart and lay them fat-side down on the sheet, not touching.
  • Bake for 45 minutes.
  • Brush generously with barbecue sauce.
  • Bake for 15 more minutes.*
  • Apply another coat of barbecue sauce if desired.
  • Eat and enjoy.

Notes