Food Request: Mahi Mahi Tacos

I have never made fish tacos, and I have never cooked Mahi Mahi. Mission Accepted.

With the help of Bobby Flay's Fish Taco Recipe I headed to the kitchen.

With so little counter space and food covered hands I often tape the recipe to the cabinet above the counter.

Printed out, with my grocery list on the bottom.

My friend Sam made the food request, and was nice enough to pick up the fish on her way over.

While waiting I started on the corn and black bean salsa, a favorite among friends.

2 - can black beans, drained and rinsed

2- cans yellow whole kernel corn, drained and rinsed

1/2 a bundle of cilantro chopped

1 yellow onion chopped

1 lime juiced

Few dashes of salt

1.5 tsp of ground cumin

1/4 c. vegetable oil

I rarely measure ingredients for this recipe, so you may have to adjust a little to taste.

This recipe often calls for tomatoes, but I find it:

a) doesn't need them

b) the salsa doesn't keep as long

c) I just love the cilantro, corn and bean coloring together

Salsa - CHECK.

Onto the Mahi Mahi marinade.

Here comes the fish!

Bobby's recipe suggests cooking the fish all the way through so it flakes, Sam and I however were impatient and looking forward to fish a little more... raw.

Searing on both sides for a mere minute, we were done!

Lime, cilantro, onion (red and yellow) and some sour cream. Yum!

You have been "Aproned & Wined"

Come Autumn, these are a few of my favorite things...

My dog, Woodie.

Changing leaves!

Lentil Soup

Fig Balsamic Vinegar with Dates

Steak and potatoes

Gingerbread cake with home made whip cream

Eating.

A perfect family reunion/trip home. Sometimes it's nice to sit back and enjoy the cooking of others. Thank you mom.

A quick dinner in a pinch!

Pears are in season, and boy do I love a good pear. For this seasonal salad I grabbed a bag of mixed mesclun greens, walnuts, a bosc pear, craisins, and saga blue cheese!

Scrumptious.

A salad is always better with croutons

I cubed the bread and threw it in the skillet with butter and a dash of black salt.

After toasting in the skillet for a bit, I threw the croutons in the oven for a final toasting

(You can't see much in the photo, but trust me they're there!)

Salad for me +2. Thanks to my forever hungry eaters.

When wine is picked solely on the name and art work, you get Il Bastardo.

Let dinner begin!!

We have one little table in our apartment, and this is what's sitting on top of it.

I took a few minutes to move furniture and relocate everything to our windowsill, with a meal like this we were going to dine at a table, even if it meant sitting on a disproportionately low couch.

Yum!

Plating dinner.

Table is set!

Three bottles of wine. Three people.

Makes sense.

I think everyone enjoyed their meal!

Time for dishes.

And a clean kitchen.

Cheers!

A big thank you to my brother for taking pictures and my hungry friends for eating, not only on this night, but indulging in the leftovers as well.