Fast and Easy Delicious Meal

I was browsing around my local Giant store looking for something interesting to make for dinner and found these babies, Bourbon Black Pepper Marinated Beef Sirloin Tips. Now, I don't usually buy stuff like this because I am always afraid the meat will be tough, but I broke down and bought a pack of them anyway to try them out. I have to say they are one of my new favorites! They are so easy to make, flavorful, tender and delicious.  Some of the different ways to serve them - you can make shish kabobs, mix them with vegetables, serve over rice or noodles, or just add some sides dishes like I did.  All in all I give them an A++.

 Here is my pack of beef tips. One pack served two of us.

The tips were cut in rather large pieces, so I cut them into about 1 inch pieces.  I caramelized them in a little extra virgin olive oil, took the tips out of the pan, and sauteed my favorite portobello mushrooms to mix in with the tips when I served them.

 OOOH, looking tasty!

 I served them up with a brown and wild rice vegetable mix, roasted asparagus and a garden salad, YUMMY!  This meal took about 20 minutes to make and it looks like it took longer.  So browse around your favorite grocery store, you never know what good things you might find.

Bourbon Beef BBQ Shish Kebabs

The hubby wanted steak on the grill for dinner on Sunday, to cap off the week.  I thought I took whole steaks out of the freezer, but it was steak tips.  Oh well, had to change gears just a bit and figure out what to do with those.  We just had pork kebabs and I wasn't sure I wanted to make kebabs again.  But, I did, and boy were they fantastic!  He was swooning all over these.  The meat was like buttah!  You could cut it with a fork and all the other flavors going on, you didn't need anything else to accompany them.  Can you say yum?

  Recipe below.

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Here are my delicious kebabs!

And this is what I used to marinate them.

 Now, this sauce is awesome too.  Traders Joe's Siracha and Roasted Garlic BBQ Sauce.  I used this on my son's (who is vegan) vegetable kebabs.  I just skewered all the same vegetable on his, minus the meat.  Grill veggies a little bit first then brush on the BBQ sauce to coat as you are cooking them.

Bourbon Beef BBQ Shish Kebabs

Ingredients

1 - 1 1/2 lb package of beef tips

1 bottle of bourbon flavored BBQ sauce or glaze

1/2 large portobello mushroom, cut in chunks

1/2 red bell pepper, cut in chunks

1 green zucchini, cut in half, then cut into thick moon shapes

1 yellow zucchini, cut in half, then cut into thick moon shapes

1 red onion, cut in half then quarters

2 ears of sweet corn, cut into eight pieces

Directions

Two hours before grilling, cut the beef tips into 2 inch pieces.  Put the beef  in a resealable bag and pour about 1/2 of the BBQ sauce over them, reserve the remainder for basting. Toss to coat, and put into the refrigerator.

Take the beef out of the refrigerator about 30 minutes before grilling. When you are ready to start grilling, heat the grill.  String 3 - 4 pieces of beef (discard the marinade), corn, zucchini, onion, pepper and mushroom until the skewer in almost full, leave about an inch at the top of the skewer with no veggies on it. Repeat until all meat and veggies are skewered.  Lay them out on the grill and baste with some of the reserved BBQ sauce.  Cook, turning and basting, for about 10 minutes on each side.  Makes 6 kebabs.

NOTE: For the veggie kebabs, repeat all the steps except for the beef.