Summer Food

I love cooking. I have recipes I make only in the summer. It’s not that I eat them so much I am tired of them by winter. It is just that they taste best when the sun is shining, when you’re shoes are kicked from your feet and a chilled sangria is cooling your throat, comprende?

Ingredients

Grilled tuna, maybe two steaks, chopped

1 lime, zested

1 chopped red onion

2 crushed jalapenos

5 ripe avacados

A handful of cilantro, chopped

Some pepper sauce

Salt and pepper

Mix everything together, but do not taste it yet. Cover it, pressing the plastic wrap into the paste to keep it from turning color. Let it sit in the refrigerator for an hour, then taste. Season again. If you taste it too early, the flavors will not have mixed and you will over season. 

This is a loose recipe. Most of mine are.

You should play with the dish. Leave out the Tuna, but add shrimp. Or use tomato and chopped iceberg lettuce. Try adding jicama and oranges.  It’s best eaten on crackers or pita chips. A glass of sangria or pinot noir.