Jerk Ribs With Brown Sugar Rub
"I like food from warm climate places; like the people, the flavors are bold and loud, full of spice. They use a lot of flavors, colors, spices and I just have an affinity to them. One day, I was especially craving Jamaican jerk, a seasoning blend that includes allspice, garlic, thyme, and other spices — every version’s a bit different. I’d given up on finding decent Jamaican food in L.A., so I experimented to make my own. Jerk is normally used with chicken but, since I’m a huge rib lover, I tried the same idea with ribs! I first rubbed them with a spicy brown sugar mix and then coated them in sauce made with soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, garlic, thyme, molasses and allspice. I brought the ribs to the studio one day when I was recording my last album. The whole band went wild over them. It’s all we could talk about all afternoon, so I named the song we were working on that day “Jerk Ribs.” It was the first single released off that album. The ribs are great. The song is pretty awesome too. You’ll have leftovers of the Brown Sugar Rub, which you can put on bacon, steak, lamb chops and other meats...."