Spring 4-Course Meal: Kiwi-Blueberry Salad, Potato-Ham-Cheese Hash, Scallop Ceviche, Tilapia

A tasty and easy meal for spring . . .
1. Zesty Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

-Kiwi (chopped)

-Pineapple (chopped)

-Blueberries

-Crumbled Feta

-Tiny Dash Chili Powder
-Dash Cinnamon
-Dash Nutmeg

Toss together and voila!

2. Delicious Ham Hash

Ingredients:

-Red and Yellow Fingerling Potatoes (1/4ths)

-Chopped Yellow Onion

-Minced Garlic

-Chopped Fresh Dill

-Chopped Fresh Basil

-Canned Ham (cubed)

-Butter

-Olive Oil

-Grated Organic Vegetable Farmers Cheese

-Grated Gruyere

Add all ingredients (minus gruyere) onto a baking pan and heat for 20 minutes at 400 degrees.  When done sprinkle the grated gruyere on top of the dish.

Sprinkle more grated gruyere about halfway through the cooking time.  Then, once the cheese is fully melted, the potatoes are ready to eat.

3. Scallop Ceviche

Ingredients:

-Scallops

-Smoked Oysters

-Quartered Radishes

-Pickled Shallots (chopped and placed in red wine vinegar for 5 min)

-Yellow Onion (diced)

-Poblano Chile (diced)

-Chopped Cilantro

-Chopped Dill 

-Orange Juice (splash)

-Lime Juice (splash)

-Olive Oil

Slightly cook scallops (cut in half) in olive oil  and garlic.  Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.  Let sit for 10 min in refrigerator. Keep ceviche ready to eat with next dish.

4. Tilapia in a Light Mushroom Cheese Sauce

For the cheese sauce:

Start a pot on medium.  Add butter and flour until it mixes.  Add light cream.  Add fresh basil, pepper, poblano chiles (chopped), salt and chile powder.  Add package of mixed variety mushrooms (buy from store).  Heat until almost as thick as you would like it to be and then add pepper jack cheese to finish consistency and taste.

Ingredients (Tilapia over Spanish Rice)

For this recipe I just used boxed Spanish Rice.

-Tilapia Filets

-Lime Juice

-Cilantro

-Black Pepper 

Season tilapia with lime juice, cilantro and black pepper.  Set aside for 15 min. Cook Spanish rice.  Put spanish rice and uncooked, but seasoned tilapia in a circular baking pan so the rice spreads throughout the bottom of the whole pan and the fish rests on top.  Cook on 350 for 5-10 min. This way the rice is crispy and complements the texture of the tilapia filets very nicely.

Plate the fish and rice on a plate and drizzle the cream sauce with mushrooms over it.  Place the ceviche on the plate as well. Put the ceviche over a bed of spinach for garnish (see below).  Enjoy.