Everybody cut Footloose! The movie Footloose** seems to have made a comeback with the tween crowd, so much so that Drummer Boy took it upon himself to learn the drums to the song on his own and play it for a friend.
So with slightly better weather, and since someone is upstairs playing my 1985 jam, I thought I’d be a little loose by going with no actual recipe for a big tuna steak. Not from a recipe? Jump back!
My favorite easy-peasy literal lemon-squeezy recipe when I don’t know what to do: Board Dressing. You can do this with whatever you can find on hand that goes well together and with whatever kind of meat or fish you have.*** I had a large lemon, 3 frozen crushed garlic cloves (yay Trader Joes!), 1/2 cup fresh parsley, a few stray basil leaves, 1 tsp dried oregano, 1 tsp kosher salt and pepper to taste. Chop it all up in a pile on a cutting board:
Juice the lemon into the pile and pour about a 1/4 cup of olive oil into the mix, Push about a quarter of the pile onto a plate where you will ultimately put the finished, grilled tuna. Take uncooked tuna steak and roll it around in the board dressing.
Then grill until desired level of doneness. For a thick one like this, it took about 18 minutes. While it is still hot, put it on the plate or new board with the remaining dressing and turn to coat. Try it and add additional salt and pepper if necessary. Or if you are my sister, just salt it without even trying it. You’re just that sure.
Served with mixed rice blend and carrots. Now go cut a rug or thrash about in a warehouse. Your choice.
** The real Footloose, not the remake. I love me some Blake Shelton on The Voice, but Blake, that song did not need to be re-sung. Let Kenny Loggins shine forever.
*** My husband believes that by my owning this book:
it makes me the equivalent level of nerd as he is, just a food nerd. I ask you, even if there were the food equivalent of the comic book store to hang out in on Saturdays with the boys playing Hero-Clix, and I created DIY my own food Hero-Clix figure, wouldn’t we just call that “a restaurant”? I know you guys are with me on this one, right?
