If you feel as groggy as I do on this rainy Monday, perhaps you’d just like to stare longingly at this lovely piece of food porn sent in by faithful blog reader Deb.

Deb promised to make something this weekend and send me a picture of it for my Fridge Magnet Flickr page, which has lately been neglected. If you’ve got any great food pics, e-mail them to me at lindsey.nair@roanoke.com or join my Flickr group.

This is rigatoni with chicken sausage and Parmesan cheese, served with a salad of asparagus, cherry tomatoes, crispy prosciutto, fresh basil and a lemon vinaigrette. That salad makes me drool.

I passed up the barbecued chicken this weekend in favor of barbecued country-style pork ribs. I’ve lately been working on perfecting my country-style rib recipe and I think I’m there. One of my favorite things about this dish is the affordability. I fed about 10 friends on Saturday night with $15 worth of ribs, and nobody went hungry.

I’ll attach my recipe below. Someone asked for my red-skinned potato salad recipe, but I need to work on the ratios of ingredients. I’ll pin that down and post that recipe later.

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