Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tuna Puttanesca

May 18, 2010

In an effort to eat more fish each week I looked through some old recipes to find a few main dishes that featured fish that we really liked. I came across a Tuna Puttanesca from Cooking Light and figured it would be great to use up the albacore steaks from Trader Joe’s that we had in the freezer.

 

Ingredients

 

Salt/Pepper

Olive Oil

2-4 Albacore Steaks

1 can of diced tomatoes

1/4 cup diced green olives

2 garlic cloves chopped

2 tablespoons capers

1 teaspoon of anchovy paste

1/2 lemon, juiced

Directions

 

  • Combine tomatoes, olives, garlic, capers, anchovy paste and lemon juice
  • Season tuna steaks with salt and pepper and cook for two minutes on each side in non stick pan with olive oil. Remove fish from pan and keep warm.
  • Add tomato sauce to pan and cook for 4 minutes. Top fish with sauce and serve.

 

We served the tuna with some simple roasted roasted asparagus. We drizzle the asparagus with olive oil and top with salt/pepper and roast for 12 minutes at 425 degrees. Roasted asparagus is my favorite veggie, it gets nice and crispy on the top and the salt adds great flavor. I don’t love fish but when coated in salty tomato goodness I will eat it.

 

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Dessert was a bit of Mint Brownie ice cream, nothing like real full flavor ice cream and just a bit of it to satisfy a craving. I am off to read the rest of The Help.

 

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Celebrity Sighting

May 18, 2010

The gym was quite the social place this morning; a local news station was filming a segment with O’Neal who was a contestant on the Biggest Loser this season. They were showing him working out and talking with a trainer. Every time I see him at the gym he is working HARD and I truly hope he achieves his weight loss goals. I did 30 minutes and about 4.5 miles on the running stride elliptical while paging through the April issue of Bon Appetit and today was a back and abs day for weights.

Barbell Row (3×10)

Lat Pulldown (3×10)

Seated Row (2×12)

Good Mornings (2×12)

Bosu Side Bends (3×10)

Jackknife (3×10)

Crunch (3×10)

Since I had been paging through a gourmet food magazine I was pretty darn hungry when I left the gym and close to starving when I got to my desk. The cinnamon life and a banana were satisfying buy a new flavor of tea was the star of my breakfast.

Zhena’s Gypsy tea in Coconut Chai, it has flavors of cinnamon, ginger and coconut. It has more of a toasted coconut taste than overly sweet and it smells really good!

Have you discovered any new flavors of tea lately? I would ask about coffee but I hate it. Yes,  I hate coffee. So much so that I can’t even stand the smell of it. Maybe one day I will grow to like it.

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