When i was in high school, I used to like to spend the night at a friend's house. Her parents were from Italy. We'd get up early to get ready for Church, and her mother would already have dinner getting started. when we got back to their house we had the most awesome antipasta and the second course was beef ribs slow cooked in a smooth, home made garlicy- tomato sauce with lots of grated Romano cheese grated right onto them, and dry home made bread on the side with a little glass of home made red wine that was soooo good with the sauce.
That meat fell right off the bone, and it was the flavor from the rib bones, she said, that made the sauce exceptional. I never wanted Sunday dinner to end when I was there!
She used to slow cook them in the oven darn near all morning in that sauce and somehow never burned it (maybe low heat?). She had a very heavy roaster, though, like a turkey roaster, so it probably had an insulated bottom. I don't know if she maybe seared them first, or just put them directly into the sauce because she always had that part done by the time Lori & I were up!
I can still smell them in my dreams! I've made the like a few times, but never as good as hers because everything came out of their garden except the beef and the Romano!
Oh man - now I'm drooling on the keyboard
