Fuck, sometimes going paleo pays for itself. If you rock Paleo well, you eat like a king and you see huge benefits. And then the people who see your paleo benefits and also kick ass on it sometimes then they give you rewards.
Remember when Karma smiled on me? She kept it up today. My friend Carol dropped a huge piece of freshly caught yellow fin tuna on me today! The only thing to do? Cook the new roommate a ridiculous meal. Thanks Care, and Dave: here is how you sear tuna.
Fresh Wild Yellow Fin Salad
Cut a huge chunk of tuna off. Mine was like three inches on a side (cubes are great, mine had 5 sides). Coat in a substantial amount of olive oil. Make a rub for your tuna: With a mortar and pestle, grind up so whole black peppercorns. Add coarse sea salt and 3/4t ground ginger, combine. Rub liberally all over oiled up fish. Sprinkle sesame seeds over fish. Take a skillet and coat bottom liberally with olive oil (stainless would be best, but I used a Teflon pan). Heat until oil is just beginning to smoke (this is much higher heat than normally recommended for olive oil). Sear for 20 seconds per side, no more than 1.40m. Chill immediately! Put it on a plate in fridge to stop cooking.
Make a salad. I made a bib lettuce and arugula salad tossed in my favorite sesame seed dressing. I then took the tossed salad, plated it, and covered it with Roma tomatoes, thinly sliced red onion, and each plate got a thinly sliced Thai chili. Sprinkle with coarse ground pepper and salt. Go get that tuna hunk.
Thinly slice tuna (I might add that I did a horrible job with this step, this means that I need to practice, that means that I need more "Huge Tuna Donations" from loyal readers. Thanks again Care, this was awesome). Place over salad.
This was a pretty impressive first impression for me to make on the new roommie, and Carol and the Karma Gods (did I just come up with a new band name) smiled on me.
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