Red meat appetizer challenge?

[Shuley]

So Skreef through me for a loop with this challenge. When I do appetizers, I have never thought to do red meat before. I'm happy with how this turned out but not sure how it will do in the voting over on the guru- so this is what I am thinking of posting. Smoked tri tip crostini with roasted tomatoes, blue cheese and balsamic glaze.  First I got my tri tip

Made up a quick delicious rub

then rubbed it all over

and got it on KoKo for a lo and slow to pick up some flavor of the pecan wood 

while that was getting happy I started prepping some delicious tomatoes for roasting

my three year old helped season them tomatoes and asked to cook on the little grill. Right after this picture he ditched me for something more entertaining. Here they are looking good

meanwhile I was reducing some balsamic to make a glaze

then I sliced up a fresh baguette and brushed with olive oil and grilled

got out the cheese

then seared the tri tip

after resting I sliced then started assembling

this was bomb.com. We ended up eating the rest of our dinner with these toppings because it was soooooo good. Only thing I'd change was making the slices cleaner. My hubby got me a slicing knife recommended by Aaron franklin for brisket for my birthday so I'm looking forward to breaking that in this weekend!!!   Anyway this was a lot of fun and definitely tasty 

[Bruce Pearson]

 Those look absolutely delicious, can I have some? What kind of meat slicer did you get? 

[ckreef]

That's a good looking red meat appetizer. 

 

[Shuley]

11 hours ago, Bruce Pearson said:

 Those look absolutely delicious, can I have some? What kind of meat slicer did you get? 

Thanks, unfortunately it is long gone. He got me a dexter slicing knife.  Looking forward to trying it out

[Shuley]

6 hours ago, ckreef said:

That's a good looking red meat appetizer. 

 

Thanks!  Not sure it will even get one vote in this challenge. I've been doing so poorly lately! Ah well, at least I got a good meal out of it. 

[MacKenzie]

That appetizer has my mouth watering, 

[CeramicChef]

WOWZERS!  Talk about a gastronomic feast!  Major kudos on a major league home run!  

[tony b]

Excellent! That tri-tip looks perfectly cooked. And, everything is better with blue cheese on it!!!

[Aussie Ora]

Nicely done that had to have tasted so good

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[cschaaf]

Looks delicious!

And this part cracked me up!

21 hours ago, Shuley said:

my three year old helped season them tomatoes and asked to cook on the little grill. Right after this picture he ditched me for something more entertaining.