Category: No Cook


Jan
2014

Green Apple Cucumber Tuna Salad

categories: Healthy, Low Carb, Lunch, No Cook, Salad, Seafood
There are some things that people swear are good.
For instance:

Birds.
Tapenade.
Downtown Abbey.
Crocs.
Tuna…
 
Some of them kind of gross me out.
Some of them scare me.
And one in particular puts me into a deep coma when I try to watch it.
I leave the mystery of which one is which to you.
 
However, I am not one of those people who say, “I don’t like ______”, then never try it again.
(Except for birds…that fear is straight up diagnosable.)
So when a friend brought out a big bowl of tuna salad,
I politely put on my best fake smile & told myself to just eat it & hold my breath so I wouldn’t taste it too much…
Yeah, like a 5 year old.
Don’t judge me.
 
So I took a bite of this so called “amazing” tuna salad…
then I chewed it a little…
then I took a breath.
And I am SO GLAD that I did.
It was friggin’ delicious!!
I mean, who knew canned fish could taste like springtime in your mouth!

This recipe has tart green apples & sweet dill relish that adds equal amounts of sweet & sour, fresh & crunchy cucumbers & celery, a light dose of yogurt for creaminess & a hit of lemon juice to brighten all of the flavors up!
Ok, so I know it sounds like a weird combo, but trust me.
This tuna salad is probably one of my favorite meals now & if it can convert a canned fish hater like me, I think it’ll be a hit with you, too!
Not only is it good, but if you omit the crackers/bread, it makes for a nice little protein packed, low carb lunch!
P.S. You can put it in a sandwich or eat it with crackers.  I like eating it with saltines because they are my favorite cracker & apparently somewhere deep inside of me there is an 80 year old woman just drying to get out.

Enjoy!

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Apr
2013

Nayarit-Style Shrimp & Crab Ceviche

categories: Mexican, No Cook, Seafood
This is a recipe.
I swear.
But first a letter to those who didn’t make the cut but deserve an honorable mention:

Dear Ex-Boyfriends,

Thank you for teaching me the following things:

  1. How to kiss with my eyes closed.  Yeah, it used to be a problem…a really creepy, adolescent problem.  It has since been rectified, thank you.
  2. How to recognize a jackass/pushover/train-wreck/mama’s-boy from 500 feet across a room.  I have shared this knowledge with my girlfriends as needed & by the way, they would like to thank you, too.
  3. Don’t snoop & don’t look at emails/webpages left on the screen.  Most of the time you are going to find a lot of sketchy stuff that should really go unfound…um…I’ll leave it at that. Yuck.
  4. You are probably not crazy & I am probably not crazy but the weird combination of you + me sends us flying into whack-a-doodle status & therefore we can not be friends. Like, don’t even follow me on twitter/instagram/facebook.  It’s that deep.
  5. Your grandmothers, mothers, & even fathers are some of the best cooks I have ever met.  I’m glad I paid attention in the kitchen all those years because quite frankly, sitting next to you on the couch while you watched SportCenter re-runs never really sounded all that appealing.
You are probably thinking, “Why the hell did she just over-share?”.
Well, as I was making the Shrimp & Crab Ceviche that I am sharing with you today, my fiancé came into the kitchen & asked, “Where did you learn to make this? You aren’t even Mexican.”

I hesitated….”Um, my ex-boyfriends’ mom taught me…”

He blinked at me & I cringed awaiting his reply…
“Fair enough”, he said & walked away slurping up his ceviche without a second thought.
Wow.
Leave it to a guy to look past anything having to do with an ex as long as it involves a good meal.
As I stood there, chopping away, thankful I had dodged a potentially awkward bullet, I had a flash back to a time long ago, standing there in the kitchen with countless “mama’s” as they shared their knowledge with me.  I couldn’t help but be reminded of all of the valuable life lessons (like the ones above) I learned along the way.  Fortunately, each one of these memories is also accompanied by some really great recipes.  So great, in fact, that I couldn’t possibly feel good about posting any of them without acknowledging them in some way.
So here you go: An excerpt from a chapter in the cookbook which is my life…

& Lord knows I’m nowhere near finished writing it…

Enjoy!

 Nayarit-Style 
Shrimp & Crab Ceviche 

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