Fresh Red Snapper. Fresh Corn. Delicious Spicy Salad. Ice Cold Beer. Yum.
It was an easy meal to make, and both delicious and healthy. Wish I had taken a picture before I devoured it.

• Snapper
  
  • 1 fresh Pargo Rojo (as big as you can fit in your pan), scaled, gutted.
  
  
  • White Onion, diced fine. (about 1/2 cup)
  
  
  • 1/2 head of garlic. Diced fine.
  
  
  • Several stems cilantro, whole
  
  
  • Several stems Coyote, chopped
  
  
  • 1 tabasco pepper, chopped.
  
  
  • enough oil to cover the bottom of the fry pan
  
  Stuff cilantro and some onion into fish. Add everything to pan, add medium heat. Cook 3 minutes, flip, cook 3 minutes, cover, cook 3 minutes, flip, cook 1-4 minutes until white and flaky. Use your judgement*. Generally speaking 10 minutes per inch of thickness should be enough. Overcooked is not yummy. Baste the fish w/ the onion/garlic/herb/peppers that are simmering away nicely as you cook it. Use tongs to pull the fish out, use a slotted spoon to pull the rest. Plate with yummy stuff on the fish.


• Corn. Shuck it. Boil it. Till its done. Serve w/ butter and salt.


• Spicy Salad
  
  • 1 avocado
  
  
  • 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
  
  
  • 1 small jalapeno. Seeded and chopped
  
  
  • 1/2 lime
  
  
  • cilantro to taste, chopped
  
  
  • some of the chopped onion from the fish recipe (raw)
  
  
  • 4 or 5 lettuce leaves
  
  Put avocado, jalapeno, onion, and cilantro in bowl w/ lime juice. Mash it into very chunky guacamole. Put rinses and chopped lettuce in a serving bowl. Add a layer of chopped red bell. Put chunky avocado mix on top. Drizzle with olive oil if wanted. Sprinkle with salt if wanted. Not too spicy, because you seeded the jalapeno. If you like it hotter, leave some seeds in.


• Ice Cold Beer. Put cold bottle of beer in freezer while you are cooking. Open, drink. Enjoy.

That's all. Just enjoying good, local food.

*Aside: Apparently there is controversy over the "proper" way to spell judg(e)ment. Blogger's spellcheck thinks we should omit the e, but Webster's accepts both spellings as correct. Click this link for more. I'm sticking with the e.

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