Grilled Fish Tacos with Mango-Avocado Salsa
May 6, 2008 by Andrea
Filed under Main Course, Mexican, Salsas & Dips, Seafood
I wish I could come home after picking up the kids from school and have time to cook a nice meal. I long for a calm, zen-like cooking experience each day, but instead I find myself chasing after my sons who prefer to run amok, trying to keep them from raiding the refrigerator and the pantry even though I fed them a snack as soon as we got home. We had to put locks on to keep the Three Amigos from eating us out of house and home. Yesterday’s meal was supposed to happen on Monday, but the events of the day and the constant distractions left me disorganized and frustrated at dinner time and I pulled out some leftover pasta sauce and boiled some spaghetti. Now there’s nothing wrong with that, and in fact spaghetti with tomato sauce and/or meatballs is Michael’s favorite meal, but I had a grilling recipe up my sleeve for Cinco de Mayo which I had to grudgingly postpone.
I thought I could start some of the prep for dinner on Tuesday morning, but Monday night we remembered Top Gun, our three-year-old, had a project due for school the next day and I needed to finish some prep work on that before we could do it in the morning. So Tuesday morning was spent cutting photos and pasting them memory-book style onto a piece of paper describing his favorite things, and then we wrote our story about Spike’s visit (Spike is the class mascot, a stuffed kangaroo) and pasted more pictures onto that story. Read more
Steamed Mahi-Mahi with Stir-Fried Vegetables
February 10, 2007 by Andrea
Filed under Seafood, Vegetables
I first tasted mahi-mahi when I lived in Saipan, and I fell head over heals for it. Until that time my experience with seafood was rather limited, and I didn’t realize that fish could taste so good and have such a nice texture. I enjoyed plenty of mahi-mahi and wahoo during my four years on the island. When I came back to the U.S. in the late 90s, I was thrilled to find mahi-mahi available in Midwest grocery stores. Now I buy fillets in freezer packs from the warehouse club and keep some on hand at all times.
This is one of those meals that I almost never make the same way twice. It’s a great dish for cleaning out your vegetable drawer, and I usually just pull out whatever is in the frig. This time I happened to have some broccoli, bell peppers, and snow peas on hand, so that’s what went into the pan. For the wine Read more
