Feast your eyes on these beautiful shish kebabs as they cook on the grill. When we finished grocery shopping this morning, we came home and cut up a tri-tip (bottom sirloin) roast into chunks, removed the stems from some fresh mushrooms and put them in a marinade consisting of extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, chopped rosemary leaves and minced garlic.
We also boiled up some red bliss potatoes, Brussels sprouts and diced acorn squash chunks. We only boiled them until the potatoes were just barely fork-tender. These were drained and set aside to cool.
While the vegetables were cooling and the meat marinated in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, we watched some football and visited with the family at a nearby eatery. We didn’t order any food, though, since nothing on their menu could possibly compete with what we were planning to have for dinner.
At the left, you can see the meat and veggies on the skewers before we put them on the grill. Notice the rich deep-brown color of the marinated beef and mushrooms.
Click on either picture to see a closer view.
On the side, Damsel prepared a pasta salad with orzo, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, olives and artichoke hearts. I have to tell you, this was a great meal – and certainly better than anything on the menu at the eatery where the family gathered.
Ahhh… grilling and chilling. Ain’t nothing better on a weekend.
Charcoal or propane? I use both, depending on what’s on the menu. I’ve even used pineapple on my kabobs. I see a new “What’s for Dinner” theme coming soon.
I got your 911 tribute, thanks for making that available.
Aloha!
Hey Kini,
The answer is neither charcoal nor propane. The grill is hooked up to the natural gas line. Technically, that would be analogous to propane, I guess. For smoke, we use hickory chips or, in this case, fresh rosemary stems from one of several large blue Tuscan rosemary bushes in the garden.
We have prepared barbecued kebabs with pineapple and pork loin before – and used rosemary sprigs used as the skewers. See our post at
http://capnbob.us/blog/2007/07/08/rosemary-skewered-shish-kebabs/
Love to grill out back when the weather is good – and it sure was today. No competition to Hawaii, but pretty good for winter on the mainland.
Hope you guys aren’t affected by the lava – saw a brief news story on some homes being threatened there.
OK on the tribute – it’s about to go over 35 million hits in the next couple of weeks. Thanks.
Aloha Guys,
The lava hasn’t effected us…, yet, but I don’t think we’ll have any problems. I blogged a story about that here.
We live well above the subdivision that is effected by the lava which to date has stalled. There are only 2 people known to live in the Royal Gardens subdivision. One actually runs a B&B, can you believe that? Unless something really radical happens, this lava will probably find it’s way out to the sea and not pose any problems. Although at night, when the clouds are just right, you can see the glow of the lava. Eerie!