No, the ribs are in the freezer. I decided to go with the much less ambitious burgers tonight. And my grilled artichokes.

Artichokes are money. I like the canned artichokes hearts for making dip for crackers (one of my favorite dips) and with the fresh ones I like to poach in flavoured water with lemon juice, bay leaves peppercorns, salt etc (to fully cook them). Then I let them cool and dry while preparing a bread crumb mixture which consists of breadcrumbs, olive oil, parmasean cheese, garlic, pepper and salt. I then stuff that mixture on top and in between all the leaves and then bake in the oven until hot. To eat it I just pluck of the artichoke leaves one at a time and scrape off the bread crumb mixture and the little amount of meat that is on the surface of each leaf with my teeth (discard the rest of the leaf that is unedible). Once it is all disected I clean the choke out with a knife and cut up the hearts and dip them in melted butter...yum yum...

Hunh. My recipe seems to have disappeared. It was originally from barbecue-online.co.uk

Basically, you marinate the artichokes in lemon juice, tarragon, salt, and olive oil for x number of hours. I wrap them in foil and toss 'em on the grill, main grate. Add a garlic-orange juice mayonnaise, and voila!

I've also been known to steam them and serve them with hollandaise sauce, which is how I grew up with them.

Oh my god what a good burger. Can't tell you what my wife made them from, but they're incredible. I know there's buffalo, ground beef, a little parmesan, onion and salt in there, but there's got to be some other stuff. Nom nom nom.

You just made me way too hungry.

mwah ha ha ha!

Don't type with your mouth full.

Mgrrffgh

A little more detail: apparently Penzey's sandwich sprinkle, oregano, whole cumin seed, sage...

Just mail me a patty and I'll have it analyzed by my mouth.