Tuna steak and more quinoa

If you ever get sick of chicken, get thyself to Costco. Go straight to the frozen food section. Find the frozen seafood. Buy some frozen, un-batter or spice-covered tuna steaks. Praise the American geniuses who invented Costco and individually frozen tuna steaks. You never have to eat chicken again.

This is seared tuna. Yeah, its not a great picture, so you can't really tell, but it is. And it is SO much better than chicken. I covered it in a REALLY THICK coating of paprika and garlic powder. I picked those two because I bought paprika especially for the chili, and it was towards the front of the spice box.

Yeah, I have a spice box. Its in my bedroom. So I don't want to hear about how small your kitchen is until you have been forced to store your curry powder in a box on your bookshelf, behind your bed. Its incentive to keep stuff clean, let me tell you. I don't put away spices with ANYTHING on the lid, or I smell it for DAYS.

So like I was saying.

I rubbed the tuna down with SERIOUS amounts of paprika, garlic powder, salt and black pepper. Then I got a pan going REALLY hot. Poured some olive oil in it, ran and hid behind the table after it almost seared my eyebrows off, then ran back, dropped the tuna into the pan. Ran away again, cussed a bunch, ran back, flipped tuna, ran away, ran back, jerked heat down, pulled tuna off, and wondered how chefs have eyebrows. This whole process took less than 3 minutes. Once you have tuna thawed, it cooks really fast, and the pre-frozen kind tends to over-cook really fast. And rare tuna is yummy. I don't love the raw stuff as much as I should (being a cool hip, 20-something, I feel like I should love shushi.... and yet I don't). But rare it is good.

The salad is a re-dux of the previous quinoa salad. Rather than using peppers, onions, carrots, and spinach with pesto, I used potatoes, carrots, and onions. Because that is what I had. And i made dressing with more paprika and garlic in the mayo, plus more goat cheese.

Believe it or not, I still have some goat cheese. I don't know how I have convinced myself to not go inhale all that stuff right now. It is so good.