Meat and potatoes

My brother has had to work a lot of the time that all this family has been here but has been coming over after work to hang out with us and have dinner which is so nice of him since he has to drive an hour each way. When he was leaving one night I asked him what we should have for dinner tomorrow night and he immediately said, Ribs and fries! I love him so I did it. I'd made that before and he liked it but we have some non-pork eaters and some non-meat eaters so I added a big salad and some barbecued chicken.
For pork and chicken I made a spice rub with brown sugar, cayenne, paprika, Coleman's mustard, salt, pepper, cumin, blah blah blah and rubbed it all over and let it sit for a few hours then grilled the whole thing realy slow over indirect heat for a couple of hours. I warmed up some Jack Daniel's barbecue sauce which was surprisingly good and slathered it all over the meats when they came of the grill. Doing that was like shoving your face in a cake. So weirdly satisfying.
For the fries I cut a bunch of russet potatoes into strips and fried them in corn oil and then strained them onto paper towels and seasoned them with Tony Chachere's, kosher salt and togarashi. Togarashi on fries is a real winner.


This is my favorite salad:
Mixed greens, basil, avocado, fresh corn cut off the cob, sugar snap peas, English cucumber and cherry tomatoes cut in half with Girard's caesar dressing and lemon juice. Crunchy and refreshing and you can shovel it in fast while everybody else eats fries and not feel like a hippo. I still feel a little like a hippo, but a healthy hippo who eats vegetables.