What's For Dinner?

You may remember when I mentioned (here) the cooking schedule my husband and I came up with that has made planning meals so much more predictable. I have found that when I put thought and effort into planning a nice meal I really love to cook!

Well, here's just one more example of how this system has been working so amazingly for us:

Seared ahi tuna over a bed of green tea jasmine rice and chopped asparagus.

Green Tea Jasmine Rice with Asparagus

We have this amazing rice cooker, which makes rice recipes really easy, so basically you just cook the rice as usual, but replace the water with green tea that has brewed for a couple minutes. This gives the rice a nice, subtle tea flavor. (You may want to start your tuna marinade at this point.) You can garnish with toasted almond slivers and green onion, as the recipe I set out to follow called for, but I just added some asparagus spears chopped into one-inch pieces to the rice after it finished cooking and left it in the rice cooker for another 15 minutes or so to let them steam.

Seared Ahi Tuna Steaks

I looked up a recipe online for some tuna steaks I just picked up but ended up combining some ideas from a few different ones so I thought I'd share the recipe I ended up with.

Mix a couple tablespoons soy sauce with a couple tablespoons sesame oil, a teaspoon of lime juice, a few cloves minced garlic, and a teaspoon of paprika. Marinade tuna steaks for about 30 minutes. (Take this time to dance around the kitchen with your little one, who has probably emptied the contents of any and every drawer he or she may have access to in your kitchen by now.) Then melt a couple tablespoons of butter in a pan. Add a teaspoon crushed peppercorns (I used a couple tablespoons of hole peppercorns but Alex agreed it was overwhelming and they should have been crushed) and saute on medium heat for about five minutes. Then add the marinated tuna steaks. Sear for just a minute or two on each side, until just the outside is nice and browned. Serve over a bed of the green tea rice and asparagus (or coconut rice would also be delicious). Top with the peppercorns from the pan (I used way too many!) and flash a winning smile as your family compliments your culinary genius.

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