nothing is so important like a good breakfast.

so lets make a classic tri-tip sandwich.

Sandwich:

2 - 3 lb tri-tip
baguettes
salad
onions
...

Dry Rub:

salt
pepper
thyme
chayene pepper

Sauce:

bbq sauce
coconut milk

Recipe:

take the spieces and mix them. Mix the cocnut milk with the bbg sauce to taste. Afterwards remove unneccessaery fat from the tri-tip and rub it with the spieces.
Let it rest for 2 hours at room temperature. Preheat the oven to 350F and roast the tri-tip for 70 minutes. Brush it from time to time from both sides with the sauce. When the meat is medium done turn on the broiler for 5 minutes each side. To give it a nice sizzeling crust. Than take it out of the oven and let it settle for at least 20 minutes! This is important, so that the meat can collect its juices and don't dry out when we cut it.

Slice the meat in the thinnest slices possible. A slicer would be prefered, but you can do it with any sharp none setteratted knife in your kittchen.

now build your sandwich and enjoy!

the last weeks in california,

at first my parents visited me and toured a little around and discovered vacaville...

A little bit later they produly showed me what nice stuf they got there and how cheap it all is. It reminded me a little when my girlfriend was in berlin and discovered how "cute" shoes you can buy at deichman ( cheap ass shoe store in germany )

anyway I'm glad my parents had fun and so we drove a little bit arround with them to sonoma county, lake berryessa, san francisco ( we joined them there for a couple of hours only) .

Shortly before they left, I got me a new toy, called Xbox360. I'm kinda suprised about myself to spend money on such a toy, cause I always preferred a pc. But after playing with it for nearly 2 weeks I really have to admit: It just do the job...

so a short review:

graphics: wounderfull in HD mode, kinda weak in SD
noise: this thing is very noise so you need to set 8 - 10 Feet away or turn the tv very loud
games: I just got oblivion, and I love it
demos: its very nice that you can download demos for free, so I tried a couple of games sofar.
online: battlefield 2 online is just a hell of fun. But still unsure if I gonna pay 60$ for it
media extender: I didnt had a windows media center available, so I just used the windows vista demo and its way to slow to navigate with it. Sofar I need to find somebody who has a mediatester to see if its worth the 100$ to stream movies and dvd from harddisk.