Alliteration

Tomorrow I have something that I am rather excited about.  In the meantime, I had to be a good boy tonight.  With that in mind, a quick trip to Hyde Park Fish Market provided what I needed for the Southwest Swordfish With Fresh Tomato Salsa (enough s's for you?).

This was an easy recipe.  I made the marinade and then went to work on the salsa.  While I bought the fish at the Hyde Park Fish Market, I also stopped by Findlay Market for tomorrow's supplies, and came across some heirloom tomatoes (bottom left in the above picture).  I'll be honest, I've never had an heirloom tomato before.  Long story made short, I now get all of the hullabaloo.  The salsa was easy to compile, but I wasn't fond of the texture.  For lack of a better explanation, it wasn't "soupy" enough.  It was just an amalgram of solid pieces of fruits/veggies.

A quick visit from Mr. Immersion Blender took care of that issue.

This was more along the lines of the texture that I prefer in a salsa.  The coals were ready at this point, so I placed the steaks on the grill, along with some halved pluots that I found in my kitchen.  I figured they would be a nice dessert.  The Bride made some impromptu mushroom and cheese rice.  Everything came off the grill looking good.

We plated and moved into the living room to catch up on some TV shows.

At first I was concerned because I licked my finger after arranging the food.  It was rather spicy, and so I was nervous about how The Bride would react.  However, this proved to be a fluke, and the meal simply had a large amount of flavor instead of heat.  On a scale from one to ten, with ten being the hottest, I would say that this was about a two.  I'm glad I gave the salsa a whir, it loosened up a lot of the juices which helped integrate the flavors.  The salsa worked well with the swordfish's marinade, and my pluots rounded off the meal.  In all, I liked this recipe, but there are some other recipes that we have done involving swordfish that were far more interesting.  Now if you'll excuse me, I have some work to do for tomorrow.