Success at Dinner is a Rarity

But I'll settle for partial success!   Today I made Spare Ribs with a Fresh Ginger Marinade (glaze?) and everyone (but me--how ironic!) liked them.  EVEN MAIA.

For the Marinade/Glaze:

Soak a 3 inch long peeled piece of fresh ginger in cold water for 10 minutes.  While that is soaking, finely dice an onion to make 1/2 cup.  Finely dice 2 cloves of garlic.  Then, cut the ginger into matchstick size pieces--about 1/8 of an inch thick.

In a medium sized frying pan, slowly saute onion, ginger and garlic in 1 tablespoon of oil.  You want a nice deep caramel color so it will take about 8-10 minutes.  To the pan, add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice,  3 tablespoons of sugar, 1/4 cup of soy sauce, 1/4 cup of water and a nice sized pinch of cornstarch.  Cook on medium to high heat for 3-4 minutes or until thick and bubbly.  Allow to cool some.  Brush on spare ribs every 20 minutes or so of their cooking time (325 degrees for 2 hours for roasting the ribs)

It made the whole kitchen smell fantastic!  I only wish I liked pork.

I'm still babying my pulled muscle so I stuck to using the treadmill on 10% incline again for 30 minutes.  The rollerblading yesterday didn't seem to hurt it--much--but I didn't want to repeat it again tonight.  I'm thinking maybe biking tomorrow on the jail trail.  Speaking of bikes...I fixed Rick's bike today!!!  He crashed it on Sunday at Frick Park--complete with flying head over heels over the handlebar.  When he landed, the bike came down on him and caught his right lower thigh in between the front wheel and the frame leaving a terrific bruise.  Thankfully that's all that happened!!   His bike was considerably worse off than he was; we feared we'd have to take it into the bike shop.   But I fixed it--all on my own!  And I'm not telling anyone how I did it either because it sounds like it was a much more complicated job to NOT tell. =D