A few things that always happen here on Sunday's are Clean Head/Clean Bed - meaning every Sunday night new sheets go on the bed (including the dog beds) and a nice hot shower closes out the week while the lavendar oil pumps out the defuser and gets the room ready for optimal sleep! Laundry is completed before going to bed, but most importantly for this fat kid is meal planning. As I mentioned in one of the inital posts before my passion for cooking started, I used to plan which fast food place I was going to drive thru. Now, I have a chalkboard wall in my kitchen that has every meal listed on it. This doesn't mean that I have to stick to it, but it maps the week out which helps me wrap my head around what needs to be done, and what I need to get at the grocery store. I'm too lazy right now to get up and take a picture of the board but dont't worry you will see it at some point!
So once I got home from my routine, I mapped out the week thinking about everything I still had from the farmers market and how I could make sure nothing went to waste. In looking at all the produce I knew I wanted to make the ROW today which would give me leftovers tomorrow for lunch and I could create something else new and exciting tomorrow night!
Well I got right to work and started cutting up veggies. Started by using my awesome corn thingy (showed you that yesterday) put all those little kernals in a saute pan with some black beans and about a teaspoon of harissa.
While they were getting all toasty I used another one of my favorite kitchen tools - the jalpeno corer to get a fresh jalapeno ready to add! Here is the link to that badboy - http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/jalapeno-pepper-corer/
Now, I must also share that I am not independently wealthy - remember I work in public education and always have! lol So when I find these trinkets, tools, pans, electrics I put them on my wish list, buy when I can and save giftcards people give me so that if something big and expensive is on my list I can get it. This has helped me to truly appreciate all of my purchases!
Back to the food... While the corn mixture was warming I started chopping up veggies. These will be used all week long -- I totally recommend doing this for time saving purposes. They can now be used in any salad, side, stir fry you name it!
Once those were all cut up I got the fish ready, dried it off with a paper towel then rubbed it down like I was putting sunscreen on a baby! While the fish was getting to room temp, I let mygrill pan get nice and warm! Another great purchase (she was on sale) I love grilling outside but with today's humidity and intermittent downpours this pan was the shit! Here is the link to it..
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/le-creuset-rectangular-skinny-grill
While the fish was on the grill, I made the crema - which I liked but I made a few changes, I added some olive oil to thin it out, added some cilantro for a better taste, and some additional salt because the greek yogurt is a little strong. I used the pancake thingy my mom gave me in order to properly squeeze the crema on the salad!!
As everything finished up I assembled the bowls first layering the lettuce on the bottom - I used lettuce instead of the quinoa that was suggested in the recipe because I had a weird allergic reaction the last time I made quinoa. Then all of the veggies, some of the fire roasted salsa I made yesterday, then the fish, crema and cilantro. Not going to lie the shit was good! Pretty sure I nailed it!
I hope you decide to dabble in this deliciousness - Happy Cookin'
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