Last night we had Caponata Bruschetta and Citrus Salsa Tuna for dinner. Our daughter, Ellie, and her two children are visiting for a few days so I made sure to make enough. It turned out to be enough for dinner and breakfast and lunch too! I used a good sized eggplant and a relatively large onion and tomato. The result was more caponata than we could eat but no one was complaining. The only thing we decided to do different next time is we will cook the garlic just to cut the flavor a little. The recipe calls for 8 slices of Italian bread. We used three times that many and still had left over caponata. I am looking forward to trying this recipe in the summer when the tomatoes and eggplant are fresh! Kathie warmed some up this morning with eggs and said it was great. On a charcoal fire, you can't turn your back on the bread or it will burn. Lots of turning to get it nice and toasty brown.
We also had tuna steaks with a salsa made of cut up oranges, limes, jalapena pepper, red pepper, honey and cumin. Make sure you have some water on the table when you serve this one!
All you purists out there (Jess, Gabe and Brit - that means you) can stop reading now.
The recipe calls for cutting the skin and outer white pith from the oranges and limes, "sliding the knife down one side of each orange segment, then down the other side, removing the segments as you go." Right. I did a couple of segments and then reverted to hacking away most of the white stuff and wanging it into the bowl. Good enough! Ellie very helpfully held up her ipod so I could watch a video of some 20-something California Martha Stewart wannabe showing how easy this is to do while sipping cappuccino and tweeting with your Facebook friends. I must say that when I served the dish, not one person said, "You know the tuna was really good, but it would have been better if you had slid the knife down one side of each orange segment, then down the other side, removing the segments as you went."
Mark
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That sounds great! What did you eat for breakfast? Tuna omelettes?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have the first idea how to prepare oranges that way. Does it mean to remove the skin from each section?
That's exactly what it means Steve. Here is the previously mentioned helpful video so you can practice!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ohCswzf59o
Dinner was delicious. Especially the bruschetta! - Ellie
The caponata bruschetta was the hit of this meal. The grilled ingredients were chopped together, and put atop grilled bread, for a sensational combination. As a side note, some members of the family used the leftover bruschetta mix the next morning in their scrambled eggs, and that was great too.
ReplyDeleteThe jalapeno citrus sauce on the tuna steaks was fine, but would never make the hit parade. It was a lot of trouble, and not as good as other sauces would have been.