Remembering Dan Wheldon

 Ribs with grilled sweet potato fries and broccoli salad

Derek made his nonpareil ribs today and I experimented (again) with sweet potato fries.  This time I tried them on a cookie sheet on the grill, and I tried two different methods: one with a kind of glaze I found on Food.com and the other with my go-to recipe of peanut oil and a combination of salt, pepper, poultry seasoning, cayenne and dried thyme leaves.  The ones with the glaze looked good and Derek liked the flavor, but even after twice as much time, they weren’t cooked all the way through, and they certainly weren’t crispy.  The broccoli salad was redolent with garlic and lemon zest, though, just the way I like it.  It’s really pretty, too.  The ribs were so good I could have cried: moist and tender, but not too tender, and with a crunchy salty sweet crust that just could not be better.

Grilled sweet potato fries

We’re watching the Indy 500 on television; it was just too hot to actually go to the track.  I already know who won, but Derek doesn’t, so I’m not saying anything yet.  This post goes out to Dan Wheldon’s widow and their kids.  God bless you.