Chili Crusted Tuna with Citrus Avocado Sauce

Our friends, Stacey and Danny, brought back some fantastic fresh tuna from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  Fortunately, we were some of the lucky ones who got to share in the bounty! Since Danny is such a fantastic cook, he came home and re-created this dish they had tasted down in Cabo. It’s a perfect balance [...]

Western Caribbean Dinner Party

My friend, Janine, is from the Caribbean island of St. Croix.  We share a passion for good food, and when I heard she loved to cook, I suggested we get together for a Western Caribbean Dinner Party!  Janine is quite the cook and showed up with Fried Johnnycakes, Saltfish in Butter Sauce, Caribbean Chicken & [...]

Seared Summer Salmon

My friend, Tanji Patton, of Good Taste with Tanji, posted a video of her interview with the chef of Masraff’s restaurant in Houston.  He prepared a very nice seared salmon over some potatoes and topped it off with baby greens tossed in a citrus mint vinaigrette.   It looked absolutely delicious, and I really wanted [...]

Seared Salmon Over Zucchini Noodles and Red Pepper Coulis

Salmon is my family’s favorite “go-to” meal.  If I only have 15 minutes to get dinner on the table, salmon will be the food of choice.  Sprinkled with a little McCormick’s Grill Mate Steak Seasoning (my favorite for just about everything) and layed into a sizzling pan with just a bit of olive oil, it [...]

Tuscan Shrimp with White Beans

Here at my house, we entertain “almost” every weekend.  Therefore, I’m always on the lookout for really good, flavor-packed appetizers.  I made my  weekly trip to my new favorite seafood shop, Groomer Seafood, today and they had their shrimp on special. That was perfect since I’d been wanting to try an Italian shrimp dish I’d seen [...]

Scallops and Haricots Verts with Creamy Bacon Vinaigrette

Dinner at our house lately has pretty much been whatever Groomer Seafood is featuring as their Special of the Week! I just can’t get over the selection, quality and freshness of their fish! I want to TRY IT ALL! Any day now, I’m fully expecting my guys to announce a “Seafood Overload”! Tonight we tried [...]

Grilled Redfish on the Halfshell Topped with Watermelon/Mango Salsa

Thanks to all you readers out there who signed up for Groomer Seafood’s Newsletter and put my name down as the referer!  I won $100 worth of seafood AND my Escolar Topped with Tomato-Mint-Basil Salsa was the featured recipe in their newsletter!  If you love seafood and would like to keep up with their weekly [...]

Escolar Topped with Tomato-Mint-Basil Salsa

On a recent trip to my new favorite spot, “Groomer Seafood“, I purchased some Escolar, sometimes known as “Butter Fish”.  While I’d heard of Escolar before, I’d never tasted it and decided to give it a try.  I’d heard it was very similar to Chilean Sea Bass both in texture and taste but with a [...]

Sweet ‘n’ Spicy Shrimp and Avocado Salad with Mango Vinaigrette

Here’s another recipe that not only fits my “Main Meal” salad theme, but also has one of my favorite fruits….Mango!  My friend, Blanca, served this as a first course, but it’s so good that I’d fix it again as my main course!  You get the sweetness from the mango, the spicy from both the red [...]

Trying to hang on to summer! Mango Rice Salad with Grilled Shrimp

I have 8 more days of being able to sleep past 6:15 am!  Eight more days until school starts back up.  Ugh!  Not that I’m counting, or anything, but I REALLY DO ENJOY SUMMER!…not having to get up at the crack of dawn, not having to constantly be asking, “Have you started your homework?…Have you [...]