If you are going to throw an authentic Santa Maria style barbecue, you had best serve it with salsa, not barbecue sauce. The traditional condiment for that smoky, garlicky, and juicy Santa Maria Tri-tip, is a fresh and punchy salsa. Santa Maria style salsa is similar to your typical salsa fresca, but typically includes celery,…
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Santa Maria Style Pinquito Beans
If you’ve never had Santa Maria style pinquito beans, you owe it to yourself to give them a try at least once in your life. Pinquito beans are small pink beans that look somewhat like stunted pinto beans. The flavor profile is similar to pinto beans and they could be used interchangeably. However, if you…
Smoked Potato Salad
Potato salad isn’t usually an exciting dish, but you can count on it showing up at most backyard barbecues. Most of the time it ends up being a tediously bland version that I push around my plate and discreetly shuffle into the garbage when its maker isn’t paying attention. But potato salad doesn’t have to…