June 3rd. Family visiting. Requested the tri-tip specialty. Made one spicy and one sort of....well, also with same spice rub. Potatoes. F. Mclintocks Trail Camp Beans. (was there anything ever made that went better with tri-tip ?. corn. all-in-all a fabulous evening of food.

Used the leftovers to make a thai-steak like salad.


June 10th. Rosemary hamburgers and some hot dogs and hot links. This is the easiest recipe for turning ordinary hamburgers into something special for your guests. They may be expecting ground beef made into patties, but add some sauted onions and roasted garlic, crushed dried rosemary, tomato paste, Jamaican allspice, Jurassic salt and some fresh pepper and there you go.

The tomato paste mixed into the ground beef not only adds a lovely element but it also makes the grill marks jump off the burgers. Must be something about the sugar in the tomato paste and that chars a bit off the 500 degree grill bars on the Weber Platinum.

No wood this week. Pressed for time. World cup will do that.