Food Friday - Tuna with Pear Salsa

Hello friends :)

First off I'm going to apologize for the horrible quality of the photos in this post.

I'm SORRY!

I was hungry... so hungry I couldn't pull myself away from the kitchen long enough to hunt down new batteries and my other not so great camera... so I used my cell phone..  lets just say, lesson learned...

Today's fancy meal (and by fancy I mean quick and tasty) was tuna steaks with a pear salsa on top of some greens... baby spinach and kale to be more accurate.

I winged the pear salsa... I had made a mango salsa for salmon one time, but it lacked the sweetness that the restaurant version, which I was attempting to recreate, had originally won me over with... but it gave me a good base for fruit salsa.... while sitting here this morning, I decided I was gonna give it another  try with my favorite fruit... PEARS! And I must say... it'd be hard not to eat this on all of the fish that I make... Something about fruit and fish that really makes my taste buds happy. :)

One of my favorite things about making your own salsa is how well it can be tailored to fit your taste. I used 2 tomatoes, a ripe pear, a yellow hot pepper, 1/3 of a red onion, Some green onions, lemon juice and zest, and some fresh cilantro....SO GOOD!

My favorite thing about this was how quickly it was done. The tuna steaks just take a few minutes on each side, so once my salsa was made things were ready to be eaten in a matter of 10 minutes! As I mentioned I had this on a bed of greens which was a decision made on my laziness...my other option was asparagus (which was on sale today for 0.99/lb, just sayin'), but I had this spinach and kale sitting around. And for those of you who are like "kale wtf? isn't that basically inedible"... yes, I cant imagine just sitting down and chomping on leaves like that... steam it a little... then its really quite delicious and frankly, it's hard to find a vegetable that is as packed full of nutrition. I mean lowering your cholesterol and risk for cancers kind of good. The list of benefits kale has are amazing!

ANYWAY!

This turned out to be a really satisfying meal. Next time I'm gonna have my asparagus with it... eat the tuna and salsa separate from my greens because it was that good!

And next time there will be better pictures :)

I didn't make it to Costco today :( it's tomorrow for sure! quite the procrastination for my care packages. it will be done! But i did take care of something else I've neglected for a while. I started this project a while ago when I was trying to get organized... I needed a place to put my necklaces and earrings without paying for something.... So armed with an old frame from my grandmothers house, some thumbtacks and twine... TA DA! Now to just get it hung up...