Tuna
Tonight some tuna showed up unexpectedly. My mom has a way of getting ideas that something or other would be cool to pick up at the store, and then it’s up to me to turn it into dinner. It’s our own home-version of Iron Chef, I guess. Today’s surprise ingredient was a package of three tuna steaks from Costco. ALLEZ CUISINE!
So, I marinated them in soy sauce, rice vinegar, ginger, garlic, sugar, and a little sesame oil. Then I seared them in a cast-iron grill pan. YUM. I took the marinade and reduced it on the stove to use as a sauce. (Added some more sugar to cut through the salt.) The flavor was great.
The best way to enjoy tuna steak is to cook it rare. Only problem is, this fish was packaged four days ago. Not so thrilling a thought now, huh? But what could I do? I made mine rare anyway. I mean, come on, it’s tuna.
So now I count down the two- to eight-hour incubation period for food-poisoning. We’ll see if I dodged a bullet or not…