Short ribs

We had some short ribs that I needed to figure out what to do with. Came up with two ideas. Both involved seasoning the ribs and browning them. 

First up Old-Fashioned Vegetable Beef Soup from the Fix it and Forget it cookbook.

Gather up some mirepoix ...

Throw a bunch of stuff into the crock pot...

And call it soup!

Last up, an attempt at a rustic pasta sauce. I'm not sure how it was supposed to turn out, but I'm betting it wasn't quite like this. I missed a key point in the directions: turn the meat a couple times during the two hour braising.