On this Sunday afternoon as the summer is showing its colors in the San Francisco sky, it was time for us to show its colors on our table.

A friend invited us for a BBQ, a last minute casual gathering with good friends.

I love this time of the year, I am such a BBQ girl, I think everything taste better cooked on a BBQ!

My friend had gone to his local mexican produce shop around the corner and found beautiful vegetables: Eggplant, bell pepper, some spring onions, scallion and Asparagus. We ended up grilling pretty much everything we found!

We had some ground lamb meat, corn and focaccia bread.

I whipped up quickly a tapenade, by putting black olives, anchovies, garlic and capers in a food processor, added a bit of olive oil, pepper and blended until I had a good consistency but not too smooth. You still want some chunk of olive in there. I think I like my tapenade not to thin, but spreadable on a toast.

For the rest, I think you can figure it out on your own, just olive oil, salt and pepper and on the grill. It’s a great way to roast the bell peppers!

For the Lamb burger I brushed the olive oil from the tapenade on the focaccia bread and grilled it for a bit. Topped it with an aioli, a couple slice of grilled eggplant, the burger, grilled red onions and on my top part of the bread I had spread the tapenade and put a nice slice of roasted bell pepper. I called that my Mediterranean burger!

With a side of grilled spring onion and asparagus and a nice glass of wine, that did hit the spot!

Bon Appétit!