Well, maybe not. I saw thunderstorms in tomorrow’s weather forecast. But yesterday was very nice so I decided to kick off summer with a Mexican dinner. I made a delicious shrimp cocktail with jumbo shrimp, tomatoes, cilantro, green olives with pimentoes, garlic, serrano chilies and lime juice and zest. The recipe is from epicurious.com. We had made it once before for a family dinner and everyone just loved it. I love it and I don’t even like tomatoes or cilantro! I made a black bean, rice and corn salad flavored with cumin and oregano. Then, I made my famous “Mexican” green salad with romaine lettuce, avocado, orange wedges, jicama and pumpkin seeds (except that I only had sunflower seeds so I used those instead.) I also chopped up a pineapple and heated some homemade-style flour tortillas from Trader Joe’s to round things out. Oh, and I made margaritas much to Robert’s delight. It was quite a feast and certainly put me in the mood for summer.
That shrimp sounds great, I’ll have to suggest it to Katie. Or to me! Nice to see you post here.
Twice in last couple of weeks I’ve made halibut in parchment. Salt, pepper, throw in some fresh veggies and some sprigs of lemon thyme and rosemary from the garden, and voila! The fish is always nice and moist (oops, maybe a bad choice of words there). I’ve been using How to Cook Everything’s instructions for fish in packages as a jumping off point.
Yesterday I was hankerin’ for cioppino and suggested it to Katie, who conveniently enough already had cioppino broth in the fridge! So all she had to do was stop by Uwajimayi for some misc. seafood (and fight the M’s traffic home). Yum!
Comment by ttop — June 23, 2005 @ 10:27 pm