If you don’t know what Toblerones are, they are these triangular shape chocolates made with milk chocolate, almond, honey and nougat. If you’ve never tried it, I highly recommend that you do. You can find it in any grocery store these days.

All I needed was some dry rub. I found a recipe by Bobby Flay and it was DAMN good! The ribs were really flavorful, but of course I needed some BBQ sauce on the side. I had Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce which made the ribs over the top.

Bobby Flay’s Rib Dry Rub

Ingredients

1 tablespoon cumin

1 tablespoon paprika

1 tablespoon granulated garlic

1 tablespoon granulated onion

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 tablespoon brown sugar (I added 1 1/2 tablespoon of brown sugar)

2 tablespoons kosher salt

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon white pepper

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Store in an airtight container. Pack on the dry rub onto your next rack of ribs.

Ingredients:

1 chopped up garlic clove

1 cup of leftover rice

2 slices of cut up bacon

half a cup of chopped Chinese broccoli

soy sauce

Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce

In a skillet brown the bacon. I didn’t cook it until it was crispy, because I didn’t think crispy bacon would work. I just wanted it cooked. The bacon that I used didn’t leave a lot of grease (which is a good thing)  in the pan, so I added a little bit of olive oil and then added the Chinese broccoli. Stir fry until the broccoli is all toasty. Remove the bacon and broccoli. In the same skillet add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil or olive oil. Once heated, add garlic. When the oil is hot, add the rice. I stirred it around a bit before adding soy sauce and Sriracha. I didn’t measure and did it to my taste. I probably could have used a little more Sriracha to make it spicy, but I didn’t want to get crazy. Add the bacon and broccoli back to the pan and stir fry a little bit more.

Weird, right? It was delicious! Of course, you’d have to like bacon to want to make bacon fried rice.

So, it’s actually kind of fun trying to come up with different meals to make every night. It’s like being on Food Network’s Chopped or Iron Chef. I’m limited to the items that I currently have. Which is pretty sad, because there’s no rhyme or reason to my fridge and pantry. I have random stuff all over the kitchen. Like honey powder. What the frick am I suppose to do with honey powder? I’ll figure something out.

I’m craving chewy Chips Ahoy cookies so bad right now. I’m not allowed to go to the store so I’m going to have to tough it out.

Chips Ahoy. Chips Ahoy. I miss you…..

Brittany Murphy (I loved her) was the lead in that movie. It’s about an American woman who goes to Japan and decides to learn how to make ramen. Random right? Well, it’s actually a really cute movie. You should check it out.

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Anyway, I didn’t feel like soup soup, so I decided to make ramen noodles. I didn’t make it from scratch like they do in this movie, but I think I did a pretty good job using leftovers and ingredients I had on hand.

I only used 4 ingredients (not counting water). Notice how the ramen noodles are a spicy shrimp flavor and I am using grilled pork. I did have fresh shrimp in the freezer, but I really needed to use the leftover pork. That’s literally all I had left. Besides, you really can’t tell that the broth is shrimpy. It’s spicy and that’s fine with me.

This meal literally took only 10 minutes. I didn’t have to cook anything, but the noodles. The pork was already cooked and the only prep I needed to do was cut up the green onions. I heated the instant ramen noodles in a pot until cooked. Then I added the pork and bean sprouts. I kept the pot on the burner until the pork was heated all the way through. Then I poured it all in a bowl and added the green onions on top.