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Ceviche
Tomato, Cucumber, Purslane Salad

There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

Ceviche

Still on vacation visiting friends here and here. Not much time to cook, too busy lollygagging. In the meantime, here's another favorite from the archives, ceviche, one of the best possible things one can prepare with a fillet of fresh red snapper. ~Elise

The first time I made ceviche, I was amazed. I could actually see the lemon and lime juice turning the color of the fish from translucent pink to opaque white. The acid from the limes and lemons change the structure of the proteins in the fish, essentially "cooking" the fish without using heat. I love ceviche rolled up in a freshly cooked, still warm corn tortilla with lettuce and salsa.

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Tomato, Cucumber, Purslane Salad

For the last few years my garden weeding routine has included the pulling up of a thick-stemmed ground cover plant with little yellow flowers that takes over the pathways around the garden beds. It's pretty actually, but to the gardening books it's considered a weed. What a lot of these books don't tell you is that purslane, the "weed" in question, is being sold at farmers markets to chefs for $7 a pound. Not only is it edible, something like crunchy, not-as-spicy watercress, but it is packed with vitamins, minerals, and even Omega 3. In Mexico it is cultivated, between rows of corn in cornfields. Called "verdolaga" in Spanish, it is used in many dishes, in salads, or cooked with braised pork.

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