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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