My best friend's wife and fellow foodie had a birthday yesterday. Seeing how she is carnivore her husband and I conspired to make her a nice birthday dinner. My wife made her eclairs; her favorite. Mrs Juju also made twice baked taters and a wonderful tossed salad. I wanted to make beef ribs with a mustard rub... not sure what made me "crave" that, but I did. I had 3 racks so I did 1 with the mustard rub and 2 the way I usually do them-- S & P only. I had a little pecan in the egg and I ran it at 300 to 325 for about 2 hours. While both were delicious I was looking for a "hotter" punch from the dry mustard, maybe Coleman's next time, but that needs more work even though it was quite tasty. I made a texas style sauce and a white bbq sauce... both were used sparingly as the ribs really didnt need any sauce. I also made stuffed mushrooms, stuffed jally's, and I took a shot at the turtle eggs Griffin made. I made my turtle eggs with crispy bacon, sauteed shallots and 2 jallys-- seeds and all, cream cheese, shredded cheddar, my general purpose rub, and chorizo. Then I basted them with the texas sauce I made for the ribs. They were delicious and the hit of the night until the ribs came out.

I will update my site with all the recipes as soon as I get them written down. Here are the pics I took along the way...
The jally's and eggs were stuffed with the same mixture...
These are the ribs that got the dry mustard rub...
