Barbeque with Friends

We had some friends and Sheila's dad over yesterday to christen our new grill.  The weather was great and it was nice to catch up with some old friends that we haven't seen since before the pandemic.

I started the day by preparing some shish-ka-bob skewers.  Cutting up five filet mignons, red onion, an assortment of peppers and fresh mushrooms was time consuming and a bit painful with my broken cut-off thumb.  Skewering everything took a bit longer and was bit more painful than anticipated too.  I left the potatoes and cherry tomatoes whole on their own skewers.  

Usually, people assemble the skewers with all ingredients on each skewer so that each person can simply eat a whole skewer of grilled shish-ka-bob.  I don't like doing that though.  Each of these ingredients requires a different amount of time on the grill so I prefer to separate them by the amount of time required on the grill.  The meat and potatoes require the most time...  while the tomatoes require only a minute or two.  I do put red onion between each piece of meat though.  

After it is all assembled, I brush on my marinade then sprinkle on some salt, pepper and oregano and let it marinate in the fridge tor the rest of the day until we're ready to start on dinner.  I usually add a couple of skewers of fresh pineapple too but, honestly, with the condition of my thumb, I had no desire to cut up a whole pineapple so I skipped that this time.

Dinner was delicious and I hope to have the little bit of leftovers today for lunch.

I still need to get used to this new grill.  Grilling times are a bit different than our old grill.  

We had a good time catching up around a fire...

The garden trains were running for most of the day too.  I let the trolley run slowly around the loop for a while and then I did the same with the steam locomotive.  They both ran great and sounded great!  It was nice to run them again...

We really had a nice time yesterday and we look forward to a few more barbeques in the backyard this season.