This recipe is almost cheating.  I hesitated to even list it, but these ribs have become a favorite around here, so I thought it only fair to share my secret.

I start with the San Luis cut of pork ribs from the La Italiana deli on Solano Ave. These really do seem to be the best ribs in town, and several other friends that like to BBQ ribs say they use the same starting package.

I then use whatever BBQ sauce I want to try — the Hunts Hickory sauce seems pretty good. Coil the ribs into a crown in a pressure cooker, and empty a bottle of the sauce over it.

Close, set the pressure cooker for 50 minutes, and go enjoy your guests while it cooks.

Really, there isn’t anything more to it than that.  The simplest recipe I have found, the results are very repeatable, and produce the best ribs I have been able to make for years.

In case you missed the “Cooking Made Easy” blog post, this is the pressure cooker I use.  Electric and fully automatic. Just set the time you want to cook (50 minutes in this case), and it goes to work, turning itself to ‘warm’ after the assigned time.