Happy Friday! I hope your week was less chaotic than mine!
On Wednesday I finally caught up with my work. Which looking back, honestly didn’t take that long, but it consisted of 2 days with a maximum of 3 hours of sleep a night (which is good, considering). Saturday I had a competition that took the majority of my day, and by the end I was so whipped out that I just called it a night. Sunday was a lost day too because I went grocery shopping, cooked, had game night (in the afternoon) and went to soccer, and by the time that was done I think my body just clocked out for the day. Monday was the first painful day — I had 2 case studies and a quiz due on Tuesday and I hadn’t started yet (poor planning on my part). Good news: I managed to finish everything. Bad news: I went to bed at 3am and had to wake up at 5 to start the rest of Tuesdays work and start/finish my study guide for my exam on Wednesday. All-in-all, would not recommend and would not do again. But I made it. Yay!
Heading into the coming week I’m going to be doing a lot of lecture re-watching to prep for my Module 1 finals. I always look forward to the end of Modules/quarters/semesters because usually by that time my schedule has been thrown out of whack, I’m exhausted, and I’m really hitting my check-out point. Knowing its ending gives me a bit of a second wind because I know at the start of the next Module/quarter/semester, I can hit the re-set button and make plans to fix things that didn’t work in the previous round. So dreading the next 2 weeks, but also really excited for the next 2 weeks to pass.
Other than that, not a whole lot of new updates. Working on applications, building my network, doing well in school, and prepping for next year with club plans and goals. This semester I definitely have a lot more work, but it feels much more manageable, probably because I already got the fall out of the way. Currently just trying to swim, while also adding more things to my load. Just trying to find the right balance.
For today’s post I decided to do a bit of a throwback recipe, one that was made over the winter break while I was home. Good news: today’s post features Master Chef: Dad! For those who haven’t read previous posts featuring Dad, I enjoy shamelessly promoting how good of a cook my Dad is because, he is. I think there’s a saying about how nothing beats a home-cooked meal? Right on.
While I was home, Dad (and I ) made two really good recipes! Today I’m going to share with you Ceviche, which is by far one of my favorite dishes from Ecuador!
To make this you’ll need:
- 4 limes
- 1/4 red onion
- raw shrimp (1 lb.)
- popcorn (no butter!)
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 2 cups orange juice
- 5 tbsp olive oil
- 3-4 scallions
- dill
- cilantro
- 1 cup salsa fresca (not the Tostito’s kind that’s thick)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
The recipe is as follows:
- Prep the onions — In a medium/large bowl:
- Save 1 half lime and juice the rest
- Add 3 tbsps olive oil to lime juice, 1 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt & whisk
- Slice 1/4 red onion, very thin; separate and add to marinade and soak onion
- Chop up 2-3 stalks of dill, add, mix, soak, set aside
- Cook Shrimp:
- Add raw shrimp to large pot, fill with water, cover and cook. Remove from heat, strain, and rinse with cold water when shrimp turn pink
- Prepare marinade for shrimp
- In a blender: 2 cups orange juice, 1/2 cup ketchup, 2 tbsp olive oil, pulse to blend
- Add 1 cup salsa to shrimp marinade and mix
- Juice leftover lime and add to shrimp marinade
- Add in shrimp, soak and sit for at least an hour (not in fridge)
- Chop up some scallions (3), cilantro and prep some popcorn
- Serve shrimp marinade mixture with onions, add scallion, cilantro, with popcorn on side.
Other than letting the marinade sit for an hour, this recipe is super quick to make. You can also make extra of the onions and add them as a side to any other meal. It delicious and deceivingly filling, even without the popcorn. But the popcorn makes it extra good, so I definitely wouldn’t skip on that. Plus, how many meals can you think of that feature popcorn?
Thinking of posting one or two of the dinner recipes I’ve made this semester. To be honest, there’s a lot lined up for future weeks and there’s a lot that’s already been made! I almost feel like I’m falling behind. I’m contemplating upping how often I post, but I also don’t want to add too much to my schedule. So for now I’m going to stick to every other week, and we’ll see how it progresses.
Stay tuned for the next post!
To be continued…
Gabriela
Gabriela Maria 