I recently attended the “Fancy Food Show” in San Francisco and had an opportunity of meet lots of great BBQ people. One of my favorites were the guys at Jake’s. And I came away with a sample of Jake’s Steak, Rib & Tri-Tip Rub.
Tri-Tip is one of my favorite cuts of beef to cook outdoors. There are a variety of different “tri-tip” rubs on the market today. Some good, some bad. Most of these tri-tip rubs are a Santa Maria type seasonings of some form or another. Now there’s nothing wrong with Santa Maria style seasonings but there are only so many things you can do with salt, pepper, parsley and garlic. It does get a little boring after awhile.
On their website Jake’s calls their rub a “Santa Maria” style rub, but they’ve added a little twist that allows the rub to work on ribs and steak as well. My preferred method of cooking tri-tip is to sear and smoke the meat. Normally, I’ll sear the tri-tip and then move the meat to a “low & slow” method with some wood smoke. The high heat from the sear part of the process sometimes causes a bitter aftertaste. You don’t get that with Jake’s.
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On my recent vacation at Lake Goodwin, Washington I had the opportunity to do a little cooking.
I brought along my big 14 inch dutch oven and had to come up something to fix. The rest of the family didn’t have any preferences so I took a trip to the local Haggen Market and
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I have a freezer full of smoked meats. Everyone once in awhile I’m told that we really need to eat more of the meat so it doesn’t go bad. After helping my oldest daughter move into a new apartment and doing some yard work I wasn’t feeling like whipping up a big meal. I
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I love tri-tip! I grill tri-tips more than any other cut of meat. My normal method is just to season with a little salt, pepper and garlic so when I was given the chance to try the “Santa Maria Style” seasoning from “The Rub Co.” I jumped at it.
If you are not familiar with “Santa Maria” style tri-tips you are missing a treat. There are variety of excellent histories on the internet. One of the best can be found at: http://www.lospadrescounty.net/et/smbbq.html
My first impression upon opening the bottle for the first time was that it was loaded with garlic. Maybe too much. I love garlic, as much as the next guy, but the garlic smell was a little overpowering. I ventured forth and seasoned my tri-tip with a good dose of the seasoning. In the end my fear of to much garlic was unfounded. It was perfect
As you can see there are a variety of other seasoning in addition to the garlic, salt and pepper you would normally expect to see. Once it was on the meat and had sat there for a while it because to take on a nice little “crust” for lack of a better term.
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I love Tri-Tip Steaks from Costco. They are one of my favorite cuts of meat. I recently received a bottle of Spicewine Gourmet Blend All Seasoning direct from Jay at Spicewine. I figured there wasn’t a better thing to try it out than the Tri-Tips.
I sprinkled a good helping of the
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I enjoy eating great BBQ and rarely do I find great BBQ in restaurants. One of the exceptions would be Yunece 61 BBQ on Folsom Bvld. in Sacramento. I had the chance to eat a late lunch there yesterday and it was well worth the drive from Rocklin.
The food was fantastic. You could
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