A Small, Light Romantic Dinner For Two

I've been wanting barbecued ribs since early March (the last time I had them...and those were takeout from a restaurant). So today, Tim delivered. He dry rubbed three racks (that's the smallest package I could get at the store!), smoked them for over 4 hours, then mopped them with sauce and finished them on the grill, so the sauce got all caramelized and baked in. I won't have to cook for days. While he was going to all this trouble to have the smoker going all afternoon, he put on a couple chickens, too. So we have smoked chickens to enjoy in salads, sandwiches and soup in the coming week. Tim delivered a half rack of ribs over to an interested neighbor, and we still have plenty left over. I looooooove leftovers.

I made coleslaw sort of like Paula Deen's on Food Network, only I didn't fry the ramen noodles in an assload of butter, and I didn't add all the oil to the dressing like in her recipe. Good Lord, that woman is the queen of saturated fat. I threw in some red bell pepper, soy nuts, and pepitas. And I made a simple, straightforward mustard potato salad. I forgot to look for corn on the cob at the stores the last few days, so we just heated up some loose kernels from the freezer.

To drink with it: Lucid Kolsch from New Holland Brewing Co. Now I'm sipping some of our homemade Petite Merde Transverse Brown Ale.

What's for dessert? Surprisingly I made nothing. Thought about making ice cream last weekend, but never did. We have dessert less and less these days. But I'm thinking a dish of sherbet in a few minutes might be the perfect thing to top all this off.