Summer is a good time for comfort foods. Childhood memories of hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill, corn on the cob, potato salad, and watermelon in the backyard picnic come to the minds of many. How about hand churned ice cream? Family recipes abound of summer specialties. Grandpa Anderson still cooks ribs on the grill.

Images of picnics are often associated with summer time comfort foods. The Andersons had four generations of families gather every year to celebrate fourth of July in Sunnyvale. Great grandpa Joe and great grandma Sue provided baby back ribs. They used a rub that is supposedly a family secret recipe. It was so well-guarded that it is documented only in the family will.

The family secret recipe for the baby back rib barbeque (or BBQ as youngest Anderson kids say) is prepared only by Joe and Sue. Their three children do not even know what goes into the rub. Rumor has it that sun dried tomatoes (grown in their own garden) is powder ground and is added to the recipe. The cloves of garlic and chopped sweet onions are added to the mix at the very end. The meat is marinated overnight or longer before the ribs hit the hot grill.

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Cheer up wisely: Comfort foods can be made healthier (Asheville Citizen-Times)
By definition, comfort foods are generally not the healthiest.
Remaking comfort foods: Cheddar and beer soup (South Bend Tribune)
Healthful eating and comfort food don't have to go together like spinach and brownies.
Back to basics: Experts predict food in 2009 will be comfort driven with more...
ANDREW SULLIVAN/STAMFORD ADVOCATEFrugal fare such as bean soup can be a reliable comfort when money's tight in uncertain times. Food trends are fickle. They ebb and flow with economic times and over the past few years they've run the gamut...
The Recipe for Cool Weather Comfort Foods (Today's News-Herald)
(ARA) - As the weather gets brisk and the sun sets earlier, we find ourselves yearning for food and beverages that are simple, familiar and home-made. Comfort food is as soothing as a warm sweater, but it doesn't have to be boring if you add a little creativity.
Recipe Makeover: chicken-fried steak and gravy (San Jose Mercury News)
In making over chicken-fried steak, "we skip the deep frying, but with rich country gravy as consolation, you won't miss it," writes Jessie Price in "Comfort Foods Made Healthy.
Coffee and Chocolate Holding Up in Down Economy (AG Weekly)
In the United States, the true comfort foods are chocolate and coffee -which may provide relief for investors battered by plummeting prices for oil, gold, wheat and other products.
Comfort foods can be healthy too (The Charlotte Observer)
(By Heather Lalley, Chicago Tribune) Healthful eating and comfort food don't have to go together like spinach and brownies. It's just that we've become so accustomed to thinking good-for-you dishes can't be warm, gooey and soul-satisfying. But Jessie Price and her fellow editors at Vermont-based EatingWell magazine want to prove that conventional wisdom wrong. They've compiled nearly 200 ...
Feel-good Foods to Battle the Winter Blues (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - It's that time of year again when temperatures hit single digits, clothing gets heavier and it can be difficult to resist the urge to curl up all day under a warm and comfy blanket with an engaging book.
Cold comfort (The Age)
Justine Costigan savours a range of flavours that take some licking.
Kettle adds sweet onion chip (The Portland Business Journal)
Kettle Foods added a new flavor to its line of ?Big Game? chips.