Joie de table
Joie de table
Summer BBQ
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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!
Menu
Grilled vegetables
Lamb Burger