BBQ Ribs And Seduction
James L. King III
Outfoxing The Foxes <outfoxing...@juno.com> wrote:
> Some Guy Writes:
>
> >I make a mean sparerib. It's not easy to do this by any stretch
>
> oh great, now he's an expert on cooking.
>
> <----Damn right I know how to cook!! Women LOVE guys who can cook well.
> Plus, if you cook for them, you're already at their place......it helps a
> great deal. Heck, one Fox even liked it when I'd make her a tuna salad
> sandwich with a 75-cent can of tuna.......can't beat it for gimmick
> value.
Portions of this statement are found virtually verbatim in "Eating In
-- The Single Man's Guide To Cooking and Romance" by Rich Lippman and
José Maldonado, copyright 1990:
"But above all, you'll discover that women are truly impressed by a man
who can cook." (p.20)
"And you'll side-step the big question, 'Why don't we go back to my
place?' because you'll already be there." (p.13)
Among similar statements within the book. I recommend it if you wish to
learn simple, foolproof, elegant meals.
But Ray didn't come up with it first, as much as he'll try to claim to
(in fact, Lippman/Maldonada weren't the first to write a book filled
with recipies for two for bachelors. I'll have to find it, but my
grandfather had a cookbook dated about 1918 filled with recipies a man
could prepare to impress a woman while courting her.)
Oh, and spareribs are among the easiest of entreés to make. Slow
cooking with a marinade. You don't have to pay a lot of attention to
them unless your oven isn't calibrated properly (and even then, that's
why you use an oven thermometer.)
Even a simple stir-fry would be harder to prepare than ribs. I simply
don't prepare ribs (or other meat dishes) often because most of my
dates are vegetarian.
I ran the nutritional numbers of Ray's recipe through Mastercook. He
doesn't offer a side dish, so I'm assuming that the meal is strictly
the ribs and a beverage: probably beer or soda.
In which case, you would prepare about 3/4 pound of ribs per person
(that's about 1/2 pound of actual meat per person).
THe nutritional numbers will vary depending on the nutitional value of
the barbecue sauce, but the numbers won't vary much:
Ray's BBQ Spareribs, Per serving:
1429 calories
91.2 g. of fat (140% of daily value, assuming a 2000 calorie diet --
114% of daily value assuming a 2500 calorie diet.)
32.4 g. of saturated fat (162% of daily value)
266 mg. of cholesterol (89% of daily value)
868 mg. of sodium (36% of daily value)
91.5 g. of carbohydrates (30% of value)
2.1 g. of fiber
64.4 g. of protein (129% of daily value)
Vitamin A: 12%
Vitamin C: 15%
Calcium: 14%
Iron: 27%
So, in one dish you get your entire day's fat intake and saturated fat
taken care of, and get a head start on the next day, and get most of
your daily dose of cholesterol without getting a lot of nutrients or
fiber. It clogs my arteries just thinking about it. At least the sodium
content's reasonable, and you do get more than a day's worth of protein
in the dish.
James King
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