With all the grilling and testing that goes on around here some of the young’uns have gotten bit by the grilling bug. It is little wonder that some of them have started wanting to try their hands at grilling. Things really started taking off with the outstanding success of “S’more-dillas“. Today a couple of the young’uns asked if they could season some ribs. Not being one to want to disappoint the kids and seeing a great opportunity to do a little teaching I told them each to choose a rub. One of them chose the KA-Ranch Big Cow Creek rub that we have been testing. The other went straight for another KA-Ranch rub that we have been testing, Trail Dust.

Applying rub to Country Style Ribs.

Since this was a teachable moment I decided to have the kids do everything from getting the meat out of t...

Around here, Mother’s Day requires two rituals. Doting on mother’s and grilling. Actually the second is really an extension of the first. In the past grilling has mostly been the steaks, burgers, and dogs variety in an effort to feed everyone and settle down for some relaxing conversations and antics of children playing around us. OK, the antics are not always relaxing.

This year a few things came together and I decided to do a little early Mother’s Day grilling. The first thing that happened was the good folk over at KA-Ranch sent us some dry rubs and seasonings for evaluation. The second was some “Country Style” pork ribs I picked up. The third was simply perfect grilling weather.

I rubbed half the ribs with KA-Ranch “Trail Dust” seasoning and the other half with “Big Cow Creek” rub...