1. macadamia nut crusted mahi mahi
2. black beans
3. fruit salsa
4. coconut rice
5. papaya and grapes with a wedge of lime
I decided to make a nice islandy dinner for the kids to make up for going to Hawaii and not taking them and then not buying them anything while I was there. I'm nice that way.
The fish was prepared using Alton Brown's method - but I didn't use NEARLY the amounts suggested for the "crust" and still ended up with plenty. And I didn't use butter, because I didn't have any. How can it be that we have no butter? Un freakin believable. Did you hear me? WE HAVE NO BUTTER! Oh, sorry. Anyway.
The beans were a loose approximation of these beans only with canned beans instead of dried.
The coconut rice is just plain old rice but I subbed half of the water with coconut milk and sprinkled some toasted coconut flakes on top.
I make coconut flavored rice too, but I do not put any water just pure freshly squeezed coconut milk, talk about increasing our cholesterol levels, well we do it once in a while anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhat was your favorite Hawaiian dish? Mine is always the kalua pork, hands down! DELISH!
I'm sure the more coconut milk you use, the better it is, but I only had 1 cup. Unfortunately mine was not fresh squeezed either. Oh, kalua pork, my favorite too :)
ReplyDeleteLooks very yummy. Did you do the rice on the stove or did you use a rice cooker. I had trouble with my coconut rice recently. I had to run it thru the cooker twice before it was cooked through.
ReplyDeletemmm... coconut rice and i'll eat macadamia nut crusted anything. did this make up for not taking the kids?
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