Cooking Cheap

I put the following rub on some beef rubs tonight and I’ll smoke them tomorrow afternoon along with the hil billy bacon I had a 3.5 lb chunk of ribs and the quality below is enough, but I measured with a light spoon and I didn’t measure the coffee.

2 Tbl freshly ground coffee.
1 Tbl New Mexican chili powder
1 Tbl Kosher salt
2 tsp turbinado sugar (less if packed brown sugar)
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 shakes each of onion powder and garlic powder.

I removed the membrane on the back side of the ribs because it doesn’t look to me any rub is going to flavor the meat through the membrane. This is just a slight variation of the Java – Chili rub I used on a brisket last year and I liked that. I don’t think I’d use it on pork, but if I did, I’d up the sugar a bit more, The recipe would makes enough for a full untrimmed rack of pork spares or my 3.5 pound of beef ribs.

[Later]
The rub was fine. In fact the rub was about the only thing to eat. The beef ribs only looked like they had some meat. I also had them in the smoker too long. Tasty dry meat when you could find it. I ate all seven bones. That’s a lot and something to say about how closely the mega mart trims the beef ribs.