Groundhog's day (or Woodchuck Day, or Marmot Day, or Whistle Pig Day) is also Candlemas. We celebrated with a recipe from The Wicca Cookbook. I selected Blood Orange Mahi Mahi (for which I actually used tuna steaks from Kyler's Catch). The most difficult part of this was making the salsa, which really wasn't hard at all, it just took a lot of ingredients and a lot of chopping and dicing-more time consuming than difficult.
The salsa consisted of:
1 sectioned blood orange
one half of a decent-sized chopped red onion
1 cubed avocado (James found a perfectly ripe one at the grocery - dark green skin, and lovely "Grinch green" inside)
1 t. dried cilantro
1 minced jalapeño pepper
juice of one lime
The tuna steaks were cooked in a skillet on medium heat for about 5-6 minutes per side. The recipe said to sauté in olive oil. Lucky for me I had a big bottle of Blood Orange Fused Olive Oil from Lebherz Oil and Vinegar Emporium. The recipe also called for salt and pepper for seasoning. I used coconut-infused black sea salt and lemon pepper, which really was the right thing to do. In addition to the salsa, the steaks were sprinkled with some crumbled feta cheese.
A beautiful presentation with an explosion of colors. The bite of the red onion and jalapeño complemented the sweetness of the orange and the creamy avocado and salty feta perfectly. This may become an annual tradition.
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