I make this for Memorial Day. I don't eat pigs myself, for aesthetic reasons, but DH says it's really good and I believe him.
Mix up a really big batch of BBQ sauce. I've seen all sorts of recipes involving seemingly random mixtures of orange juice, maple syrup, ketchup, mustard, whiskey, brown sugar, onions, etc. Use whatever secret family recipe you have or make one up, they all seem to be about the same anyway.
Pour BBQ sauce in crockpot. Fit as many pork ribs as you can in the crockpot. You may have to cut them into mini-racks of 3-4 bones each. Make sure the sauce covers the ribs pretty well.
Cook 7 hours on low.
Fire up a charcoal grill, preferably the smoker, with some hickory chips. Gently, very gently, lift the ribs out as whole as possible. A spatula will help, as will a slotted spoon. Set in a hot grill, plonk the lid down to hold in the smoke, and cook just until they crisp up a bit around the edges.
Eat as best you can.
Another: Venison Sauerbraten
Put in the crockpot:
1 large sliced onion
some apple cider vinegar. 1 cup? Something like that.
1/2 c. brown sugar. Or maple syrup. Or both.
some bay leaves
some cloves
some juniper berries
one tart apple, cut up.
sweet apple cider. Or hard. Or both. Or red wine might be good too.
Some butter. A couple of pieces maybe. Or olive oil works OK too.
1 hunk of deer meat. Roasts work well but so do large steaks.
Put lid on crock pot and cook for a while. A few hours, several hours, doesn't matter much. Go do something else until you remember that you had a roast cooking. Then ignore it some more while you make spaetzle, which are a type of German dumpling that is quite good when made well and like little rubber erasers when not. You can get them in a box like pasta if you want.
Serve thin slices of the sauerbraten, which should now be soft and difficult to slice, with onions and cooking juice over the spaetzle. Sandwiches on oatmeal bread the next day, with horseradish cheddar melted on top, are very, very good.