Hi blog buds!

Wow, long delay there since my last post – the past week went by in a complete blink.  MSP was out of town all last week at an annual conference for work (the one I wrote about when I went along last year to Vegas).   I picked him up at the airport Friday and we spent a bunch of time together, eating out, ‘window shopping’ for furniture and home goods for fun (nothing purchased), catching up on the DVR’d shows and then Sunday what had started as a sore throat for him became full fledged SICK.  He sounds terrible!

So between playing nurse, wrapping up studying for ServSafe, spending all day in class Tuesday and taking the test, then recipe testing yesterday, here we already are at Thursday!  And the last day of the month no less!

When I last wrote, I had mentioned some beautiful tuna that I had purchased and couldn’t wait to sear.  I cut the piece in half so that I could have part of it one day and part of it the next, but freshly seared each time.

On the first day, I pressed the tuna first into wasabi powder then into toasted sesame seeds and seared it.

I sauteed some broccoli slaw in the juice of a blood orange along with some sesame oil and soy sauce.

It was heaven on a plate.

Then on the second day, I simply seasoned the tuna with sea salt and pepper, and then seared it, sliced it, and served it with salad, mango, avocado, wasabi, ginger and a little sweetened soy dipping sauce.

Despite all the nasty things I learned about raw fish in my ServSafe certification course, I just don’t think I can give up seared tuna.  It’s much too delicious!

Both of these meals were literally ready to go in less than 10 minutes.  Those are always my favorite meals!  Fast, fresh and restaurant-delicious!

While on the subject of ServSafe:  after taking that course let me just tell you that eating out will be much more difficult for me to stomach.  Our instructor was a ton of fun, and really loved telling us horror stories that she has gathered during the years.  And the attendees in the class got a kick out of telling their stories as well.  One guy talked about a pigeon that flew in through an open door and divebombed straight into the fryer!!  Can you imagine?  There was another story of wood chunks being tossed into a wood-burning pizza oven and watching a mass exodus of termites right before they incinerated.  (And these were stories told by the LOCAL participants in our class – not even the doozies the instructor shared!)

Makes you want to run right out and eat at a restaurant, no?

I told my friend from school who was there with me that this could be a great marketing key for our personal chef businesses!  ;)

Well on that appetizing note, I’ll leave you to consider what you’ll be having today for breakfast or lunch!  Hopefully you are making your OWN food today!  Now that the class is done, I promise not to share any more ‘grossness’ like that!  (For at least 5  years until I have to recertify anyway!)

Make it an AWESOME day friends!

– Shari B. =)

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