Friday 7 June 2013

{9 of 10} Beef Tenderloin and Grilled Veggie Skewers & Herb Potatoes

The weather has been like a yo-yo lately and it is starting to drive us crazy. Last week the weather was so hot (reaching a high of 36oC some days) and this week it feels like fall (at night it is dropping down to 6oC). I'm keeping my fingers crossed we do not get a frost warning again. I am also hoping the Weather Man is wrong with today's forecast and it warms up a bit more for our annual ice cream trip that we always go on {it's a tradition}. If it does not warm up I think we will have to eat our ice cream in the car with the heat blasting like we did a couple years ago!

On the super hot days, it's so hot that we really do not feel like cooking inside, so we try to prepare most of our dinner on the BBQ. Another favourite at our place is grilled beef tenderloin and veggie skewers, which work great on the really hot days.  Whenever there is a good deal on beef tenderloin we usually grab it and cut it into steaks. When we are done we are usually left with chunks of beef which work out great to make a meal of beef skewers. This meal does take a bit of planning ahead because we marinate the meat in Italian Dressing the night before. It is also a bit time consuming chopping up the veggies and assembling the skewers, but the end product is very enjoyable!

For the veggies I use different coloured peppers (we prefer red, orange and yellow - we find they taste great when they are grilled), cherry tomatoes, red onion and if we are serving it to guests I add mushrooms.

 
 The finished product ...
 
 
We usually make herb potatoes wrapped in tinfoil on the BBQ also when we have these skewers (the entire meal is prepared on the BBQ -- BONUS).
 
For the potatoes we drizzle a bit of olive oil over top of the chopped potatoes and then sprinkle some chives, oregano, parsley, basil, garlic, cumin, red pepper and black pepper.  Then we throw them on the BBQ about half hour before the meat goes on and that's it!
 
 
 
Do you have a special marinate or seasoning you use on your meat? What do you add to your herb potatoes? 
 



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