fish salsa
Mmm… holiday weekends! I love me some 3-day weekends. I took the opportunity on Sunday to really work on the house and cook. I think the best day for cooking was Sunday.
I started with French Toast. And not the wimpy kind made with sliced sandwich bread… I used that thick cut texas toast. I remembered reading in a cookbook a recipe that used orange juice as part of the liquid for the french toast batter. I didn’t want an overpowering orange-y taste, so I grabbed an orange off the tree out back and grated 1/2 the zest into the egg batter dippy stuff. It worked - as the zest clung onto the surface of the bread and the taste wasn’t “ORANGE!”, but “ooo - do I detect a hint of orange?”
Then for lunch we made tuna fish. Oh - not some boring tuna fish. Glenn makes really yummy tuna salad - mayo, mustard and aleppo pepper. Then he took a few pieces of the texas toast (we didn’t use for breakfast) and brushed garlic butter onto 1 side, then pressed it into parmesean cheese. Then he threw that onto the griddle and made tuna melt sammiches!!!! OMG - they were totally delicious. All melty on cheese-y garlic-y toast. <insert yummy sound here>
For dinner we were totally healthy, but didn’t skimp on any flavor. And it was one of those dinners that’s really too easy to prepare. I bought some salmon fillets and Glenn threw those into a little glass dish with butter and then into the oven to bake at 350. I asked him to not season the salmon with anything since I was going to attempt a fruit salsa to put on top. Here’s the salsa!
In a bowl combine:
1 shallot - minced
1 jalepeno - seeded & diced (if you like the heat, leave the seeds)
2 tsp cider vinegar
2 tsp honey
2 tbsp olive oil
stir and let it sit for 15 minutes while you prep the fruit
dice
2 peaches
2 plums
take 1/2 a cup of the peach/plum and mash it in with the bowl of other stuff. Then fold in the rest of the fruit. Maybe throw some fresh chopped basil in with everything too - like 2 tsps.
Done. keep it out at room temp. Use before 4 hours are up or else the fruit gets mushy and icky.
