Ceviche from Heaven!

How to make incredible ceviche that will impress your friends and tantalize your taste buds!

Ingredients: 1 lb. pacific snapper -boned and cubed, you can also make a mix of
1/2 lb. diced deveined shrimp and 1/2 lb. diced fish
3 large finely cubed tomatoes
1 onion -finely chopped
1 large avocado-diced and sprinkled with black pepper
1 can embassa jalepeno peppers-2 oz.
fresh cilantro-1/2 C. diced, leaves
juice of five limes
1/4 C catsup
1 T. olive oil
1 tsp. salt

Marinate the fish overnight in lime juice, olive oil, 1 tsp. of salt. Drain the next day. Add all remaining ingredients Mix it up....Let it sit in the fridge for at least thirty minutes for the flavors to blend...This will stay fresh for two days in the fridge.

Serve with Mexican tostados ...sold stacked up in bags in many grocery stores...already fried...crunchy....or tortilla chips. Have some hot sauce, like Marie Sharps...handy to drip on each bite before eating...


This recipe came from Teresa C. a good friend of mine who lives in Salt Lake City... A real kick too! I miss her and her antics on the tennis court!

Great Drink from Belize

I have never been much of a beer drinker...it has to be really hot weather, I have to be very thirsty and the beer has to be really cold...even in these "best conditions" I have trouble finishing a beer.....Johnny and I visited a great restaurant in San Pedro, Belize...Last night I dreamt of San Padro.....Madonna...La Isla Bonita..anyway, we had just finished a snorkeling 1/2 day trip ..swimming with Nurse Sharks, holding sting rays..incredible...saw a manatee! and it was about 1:30pm...we jumped off our dive boat in San Pedro...found a hose by a dive shop and took a hose shower ..had to get the salt off our bodies....We were famished and very thirsty ..this was the summer and the heat was smoldering...We found a place called Carambas, on the second street from the water ..signs are everywhere in San Pedro...and the locals can direct you to Carabas...we were lucky because Carabas closes for siesta from 2:00-5:00. During the day they can't run the A/C, fans are everywhere and the owner put one right on us at our table! We ordered two Lighthouse beers ..Belizian beer...Belekin is the other popular local beer), a combo. cerviche ..mixed seafood...they had several choices of cerviche on the menu) and one dinner of grilled snapper fillets, beans and rice and salad to share....While we waited for our food...I was starting to gag on the beer ..as usual..about half way through. and our wonderful waitor suggested we have some Michaladas...they also make Chiladas...I will tell about them later. Anyway, he brought out two Micheldadas and I can't believe I have never had one in the states! I love them! They are a bloody mary for the beer drinkerd...and maybe a way to get a vegetable serving in for the day!!! Here is the recipe: Take a tall glass, rimmed with salt- rub lime juice on the rim and give a spin in some margarita salt, fill it up with ice, add 1/2 tsp. of season all spice, the juice of 1/2 lime, 2 dashes of tabasco, 3 dashes of worcestershire, and fill with beer (not a dark beers.) Stir well and enjoy! Very Yummy!!!! We enjoyed our meal, two Michaladads each for about forty dollars American. vs. 80 dollars Belize...1-2 ratio...

Yummy drinks and great food. We can eat cerviche every day without getting sick of it. I like to squeeze extra lime on my cerviche, put a big scoop of it on a warm homemade tortilla chip, sprinkle a couple of dots of Marie Sharps sauce on it and down it goes....That sauce will make the lining of your mouth and lips swell and burn a bit, but, it is worth it...pain and pleasure....I hope you get to try it sometime!

It is common to speak about money like thisin Belize, "eighty dollars Belize" or "forty dollars American"...pretty simple exchange rate....even I can do it without a calculator!

Back to Belize we go on November 22!

Our trip to Belize was quite an experience. We had been warned that Caye Caulker was very rustic...after spending one week there, we decided to revisit the area...but stay near San Pedro within walking distance of restaurants (that we like) and some comforts that we are used to (like being able to flush your toilet paper!) We are preparing to go back this Thanksgiving.

Belizean Shore Summer 2008

Belize is a beautiful place. We were fortunate to be able to spend a week there, flying direct from Atlanta into Belize City and then in a small plane to Caye Caulker. Every evening the sky was georgous and we had good weather every day. Some new experiences included- swimming with nurse sharks (kinda scary for me) and holding a stingray while snorkeling.

I love to go!!!!

I am excited about my first blogging experience. I have not participated in much blogging and am looking forward to this as a creative outlet and as a way to make contacts with those who share some of my interests.

I love to go......and do things that challege and stimulate me.......visit new places........and push myself to grow.....I hope that I will be able to draw inspiration from contacts that I will make here and to inspire others....