Sunday, May 7th.

Standard Borracho Burgers. Recipe can be found in the wonderful and highly valuable Better Homes Grillin Cookbook. These burgers stand out from your regular grilled burgers, accentuated by crushed rosemary, tomato paste and a beer bath. I used ground sirloin and kept the grilling brief due to the lean meat.

Joining the burgers were spicy potatoes (recipe can be found in the same cookbook). Since our supermarket isn't carrying Yukon Gold Potatoes right now, I went with this new Ruby Gold product. It's a yellow potato with a red skin; virtually the same. This potato mix has many fans; most everyone enjoys the soft texture of the yukon golds combined with smoked Spanish paprika and thyme. As always, a sweet onion is sliced and strewn about the foil packet. Goes well with gilled steak and benefits from the smoke (mesquite today).

Rounding out the session was some grilled corn-on-the-cob, grilled directly. White corn of course, since yellow corn is not to be found around here anymore ?

I haven't found the hickory wood chunks in Lowes this year. I haven't checked Home Depot. Chunks obviously are better for longer smoking needs. The chips go quickly but are readily available everywhere.