Sunday, July 3, 2011

My favorite thing about summer is the abundance of fresh food, especially the citrus.  I took full advantage of it for tonight's dinner.  I made margarita shrimp with sauteed spinach and pico de gallo. 
I started with the pico de gallo.  A while ago I was in a grocery store looking for ingredients for pico de gallo and asked the attendant for help.  He then asked me what I thought went into pico de gallo, and like pretty much every other American, I said it's like a fresh salsa.  The attendant admonished me, "Think about what you just said.  You called it a salsa; and that's just what it is, salsa.  Not pico de gallo."  He then told me that a real pico de gallo is jicama with oranges, red onion and serano pepper that has been thinly sliced with a vegetable peeler.  So that's what I made tonight:
So simple, so fresh, so delicious!

I then sauteed the spinach with red onion and hazelnuts in balsalmic vinegar while I marinated the shrimp in lime juice with triple sec and tequila.

Roomie cooked wild rice with some lime juice while I skewered the shirmp and grilled them up.

The end result was soooooooo good!

Finished the meal off with a nice chardonnay, and a post on dessert will soon be to follow!

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