Showing posts with label Avocado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avocado. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Grilled Swordfish & Peach Avocado Salsa

I have once again found myself with peaches, galore! Last time I had an abundance I made this awesome chicken salad - which I also did this time around! Man, that stuff never gets old! My goal, this time around, was another simple recipe (surprise, surprise) and I found one on Juli's website, PaleOMG. This recipe included a fish that I had never had paired with a refreshing salsa! This salsa would be good on ANYTHING. I made enough of it so that I could enjoy the salsa right out of the container for a few days.

Ingredients:
For the swordfish marinade:

  • 2 swordfish fillets
  • 1 Tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp honey
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • pinch of cayenne
  • pinch of salt & pepper
For the salsa:

  • 2 peaches, diced
  • 1 avocado, halved and diced
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1/4 red onion, minced
  • 1/2 jalapeno, minced
  • Juice 1 lime
  • salt to taste
Instructions:
  1. Place all of the swordfish marinade ingredients, minus the swordfish, in a shallow bowl, mix together. Put swordfish in marinade, flip to coat both sides, then let swordfish marinade for 1-3 hours.
  2. While swordfish is marinading, make the salsa by combining all salsa ingredients. Cover and refrigerate to chill.
  3. Once the swordfish has marinated, place a skillet over medium heat. Cook swordfish for approx 5 minutes on each side. 
  4. Plate swordfish and top with salsa. Enjoy! 

Friday, August 3, 2012

Baked Avocado

I am going to go ahead and apologize for two things. The first is that I did not measure anything while preparing this. That includes how long I baked the avocado. I am going to do my best in approximating the measurements/time, but as with all recipes, tweak to your liking, and always keep an eye on whatever is in the oven. The second thing I am going to apologize for is really two-fold. This avocado is hands-down the best thing ever. I am totally obsessed with it and will probably be spending all my money on avocados for the next few weeks. If you end up doing the same, well, I'm sorry. And because this is so good - I have to apologize to FIVE because my baked avocado is better (IMO). Not only is mine better, it is actually paleo, unlike FIVE's version. I'm not really sure why people think FIVE's baked avocado is paleo. I mean, since when has tons of cheese, butter, breadcrumbs, etc been paleo? Never. That's when.
As a validation of this deliciousness, Adam (who does not like avocado, guacamole, etc) LOVED this. I put half the avocado on his plate and he ate the whole thing!!!!!! If that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will.

Ingredients:

  • 1 avocado, halved and seed removed
  • 3 slices good quality bacon
  • 1 tsp chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp lemon juice
  • handful of toasted almond slivers
Instructions:
  1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees
  2. Cook bacon in a skillet until crispy. Remove bacon and once cooled, chop.
  3. Using a spoon, remove the avocado meat from halved & seeded avocado. 
  4. In a small bowl, thoroughly mix the chopped bacon, avocado meat, chili powder, and lemon juice
  5. Once combined spoon the avocado mixture back in to the avocado skins
  6. Top with toasted almond slivers, or toasted nut of choice
  7. Bake in preheated oven for approx 15 minutes