Holy ingredient list – Grilled fish tostada salad
Um yeah, check out this list of ingredients:
- 4 each 6 ounces Fresh Salmon (or fresh fish of your choice) Fillets
- 1 teaspoon Creole seasoning blend
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 8 small flour tortillas
- 12 ounces finely shredded cheese (Mexican blend)
- 6 cups spring mix of lettuce, washed, dried and torn
- 1/2 cup Citrus Vinaigrette (see recipe below)
- 1/2 cup cooked corn kernels
- 4 ounces sliced roasted peppers (red, yellow or poblano)
- 8 ounces Tomato Salsa (see recipe below)
- 1/4 cup Chimichurri Sauce (see recipe below)
- 1 ripe avocado, quartered and cut into fan
- CITRUS VINAIGRETTE: 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon minced shallots
- 1/2 teaspoon Creole seasoning
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- CHIMICHURRI SAUCE: 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 bunch (1 1/2 ounces) flat-leaf parsley, stemmed and minced
- 1/2 bunch (1/2 ounce) cilantro, stemmed and minced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- Scallion tops, thinly sliced
- 4 teaspoons minced garlic
- TOMATO SALSA: 1 1/2 pounds plum tomatoes, seeded and diced
- 1/2 cup finely diced red onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 fresh jalapeno (about 2 teaspoons), stemmed and finely diced
- 1 teaspoon Creole seasoning blend
- Kosher salt, to taste
- Juice of one lime
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Yep, that’s what you need to make this:
Now admittedly, it does look good. But that ingredient list seems excessive is insane. And if you actually look closer, some of those things are already prepared and you may have to make your own (like creole seasoning blend), adding to the ingredient list even more.
The recipe is from Food Channel (not Food Network) and says that it’s from the Bahama Breeze restaurant, so maybe this is one of those occasions where you’d be better off just ordering dinner instead of making it yourself, hehe. You ‘could’ just use salsa instead of making yours fresh, but there don’t seem to be too many other shortcuts to ‘really’ replicate this one.
I could never survive on a cooking show
A couple months ago, my sister was watching me take pictures of food. It’s nothing out of the ordinary, but I’d actually bought a set of cheap plastic dishes for the sheer sake of picture some food on the colors.
Foodies present on white. Food bloggers present on white. Chefs present on white. Food looks great on a white background and cameras can capture their colors best with the white. That’s just the way it is.
All the more reason she giggled at me when I gave her the option of blue or pink (okay, it was magenta, but I didn’t know if she knew what color that even was, hehe).
She watches Chopped on a regular basis and told me how she thinks of me sometimes when she sees the dishes.
“Except yours would never be picked because you’d do it with smiley faces or something. They’d think it was really cute, but you’d never win.”
Lol! It’s true! The conversation went on and we joked about me serving meatloaf rats or arranging the foods into funky shapes. She said sometimes I make them look like the chefs do and talked about how sometimes the chefs end up making a dish look really gross.
All the while, I was arranging bowls of shrimp alfredo into a pyramid.
Sure, the color is off, but the more important thing is the milk on the table you can see on the left hand side. I can get by with this because I’m not a food photographer. Or a chef. Or a photo editor.
I’m Quirky Jessi and kids like building things, even if it’s just a tower of funky colored bowls. :P
Cupcakes or TV dinner?
I love that these cupcakes were made to to look like TV dinner food.
After some hunting and link following, I’m pretty sure this is the original source, and a commenter there said at first, he/she thought it was really tv dinner food made to look like cupcakes instead, hehe.
Either way, this is right up my alley and makes me start thinking of similar things I could make. If you go to the link, the photo is tagged with what the ingredients are (like starburst carrots).
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