Our neighbors from across the street came over tonight to visit- none of us were traveling tonight.. So we decided to do a little pot-luck dinner action.
J is a fantastic chef from South America-He has a dayjob that involves food- specifically seafood- but not cooking- tho it's his passion and he'd phenominal at it!!!! He and wife M (who is three days over due with their first baby...) brought over some lobster tail and amazing looking shrimp and oh my oh my!!!!! talk about incredible!
Here J is deveining the monster shrimp and lobster tails....chopping cilantro and veggies for the dishes... and his salsa- OMGosh! He made a cooked, hot salsa- dried chile de arbol, fresh jalepenos, onion, tomato, garlic... sauteed... and blended in the big blender.... so texture is like a creme fresh- only it's all veggie..... so good! I'd eat it on anything- but it was particularly good on the seafood- especially drizzled on the scallops! Tho I'm thinking that it would rock drizzled on scrambled ham & eggs..... mmmmmm.
Ron threw together his bacon wrapped scallops, grilled and topped as they come out with a bit of Kosher salt and brown sugar...... oh- so good!
What a fun impromtu dinner party! And such is the way it tends to happen around here.. if the weather is good- everyone is here to bbq... if the weather is bad..... the whole neighborhood still ends up here.... and we love that. That's the one thing that sold this house to us two years ago- was the space- our kitchen/dining/living rooms- are all one- and it fits everyone comfortably..... designed with entertaining in mind.We are blessed to have such good friends, nieghbors and family to enjoy our lives with!
Merry Christmas!
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