When Kidd O’Shea of Good Morning Washington stopped by the house for some backyard grilling I shared a few recipes and some simple tips to up your grilling game this summer.

How do you improve upon the classic New England pot roast? Enter the turnip - like a potato with more flavor. Slow cooked, the tender turnips give this dish a pleasant boost, while mushrooms and homemade stock give this inexpensive, tender cut of beef, rich, deep flavor.

Rich, caramelized sirloin steak and earthy Portobello mushrooms are the perfect foil for crisp, sweet, spring asparagus. A rich yet light-tasting Béarnaise sauce flavored with tarragon would be perfect over any of these ingredients and is particularly magical over all three!

Tangy, spicy and warmly flavored Tunisian Harissa paste flavors a sweet, complex marinade paired perfectly with bright summer tomatoes and rich sirloin that get a smoky hit from the grill.

How to make a rich, hearty-textured, fully-flavored beef and pumpkin stew in under an hour? Wrap quicker cooking sirloin for tough stew beef, use sweet carrot to highlight the flavor of the pumpkin and build a complex flavor base with miso paste and Brandy. Trust me, you won’t miss the other two hours of cooking time!