{"id":2123,"date":"2009-08-30T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/30\/santa-maria-style-tri-tip\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:05:02","slug":"santa-maria-style-tri-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/30\/santa-maria-style-tri-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Maria Style Tri Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooked up on the grill this afternoon. Man, was this good. Verna will be making Marc Antony salads for my lunch this week with the leftovers. I am the luckiest dude on the planet. Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tri-tip.jpg' title='tri-tip.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tri-tip.thumbnail.jpg' alt='tri-tip.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tri-tip\">WikiPedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the United States, this cut was typically used for ground beef or sliced into steaks until the late 1950s, when it became a local specialty in Santa Maria, California, rubbed with salt, pepper, and other seasonings, cooked over red oak wood and roasted whole on a rotisserie, smoked in a pit, grilled, or braised by putting a pot on top of a grill, browning the meat directly on the grill surface before and after the braising. (The tri-tip is still often labeled the &#8220;Santa Maria steak&#8221;.) Most popular in the Central Coast region of California, it has begun to enjoy increasing popularity elsewhere for its full flavor, lower fat content, and comparatively lower cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooked up on the grill this afternoon. Man, was this good. Verna will be making Marc Antony salads for my lunch this week with the leftovers.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}