Friday Feast

CPARKTX

Ended the day with a burst of motivation: Santa Maria Tri-Tip (or the closest the Cedar Park Costco could get me, apparently not enough demand so they discontinued in Texas), Bloody Mary Tomato Salad, Garlic Lemon Kale/Spinach Mix, and (thanks to SWMBO) Pao de Queijo. A very tasty meal, but maybe I set the bar a bit high, I need to top this for a valentines cook tomorrow.

Cooked the tri-tip reverse sear and pulled at 125 IT and let rest while I did the kale; turned out perfect medium rare.

Whatever the cut was, it was just about indistinguishable from a tri-tip, but the grain ran a bit different.

Walt2015

Perfect medium rare. Nailed it!

Mattman3969

Might nice looking meal!!

Dobie

Nice but a day early

Chubbs

Love a Tri tip. Nice cook. I almost grabbed one for tonight but had ribeyes Thursday night. Glad you see more of them now in stores. Skirt and Tri tip are solid

pgprescott

Yep. What they said above.

paqman

Awesome!

SmokeyPitt

The meat alone looks incredible, but you get all kind of bonus points for presentation.  After I googled "Pao de Queijo" and realize they are little balls of cheese bread, I now want to dip 4-5 of them in the beef juice on that plate.  

caliking

Pao de queijo recipe please!!

hapster

Looks damn good!

Mickey

With Hap on that. Looks damn good.

johnmitchell

Very nice...Great cook and presentation... =D>

CPARKTX

@caliking My sister-in-law was married to a Brazilian and we learned to cook them from scratch, but then they let on a secret...the store bought frozen ones are just as good. Now we cheat and use the store bought ones, which we can find here in Texas in the frozen section of HEB and Central Market.