Tuna on Mayne Island
A delicious fail forward!
Content Editor: Alice On
Are you familiar with the phrase “fail forward”? Its the belief that when you have to fail, which we all do some time, we can work to find gratitude in the lessons that lead to innovation and training in agility to stay relevant and competitive.
This happens in big and small ways throughout our lives and affects every aspect. In many ways, our relationship with failure either unlocks our full potential, or keeps us from ever realizing it. A small way we can start to practice is right in the kitchen!
Prepping for my Mayne Island trip I saw the unusual kitchen on its Airbnb's intro and decided to put it to good use! In Vancouver I use GoodFood, a meal-kit company that aims to deliver healthy and locally-sourced ingredients for a meal right to your door. Once a week they send three bags to the house - one bag is equal to two meals per person. You can choose the menu on their webpage on a weekly bases to keeps the selection novel. I’ve tried a variety of colourful and easy to follow recipes. With just one of the bags we were packed for the island, at least when it comes to meal prep, no mess, pre-cut, no leftovers groceries left to waste! The one I’m about to show you is from the delicious and healthy low carb menu!
Dinner
Thanks to a happy accident, we ended up adding some local Fresh Tuna from the Miner’s Bay Tuna Boat to the menu. Despite the guiding wisdom of a digital Jamie Oliver, It didn’t quite work out but I’ll share my valiant first try cooking tuna with you anyways.
There are several ways to thaw. One is to keep the steak refrigerated for a day, or for eating immediately, you can use the microwave's defrost function. I didn’t have a microwave at the Cob Cottage, so I used a cold water thawing method, where you change the water the steak is submerged in every 30 minutes.
The term Tuna “Steak” comes from the fat content, the sweetness of the meat and the cross-section- which when cut, looks very much like steak!
If consuming tuna raw, look for the freshest, highest-quality fish available. If you want to cook sashimi grade tuna, try pan-searing- the classic method for quickly cooking the outside of tuna while leaving the inside raw. Too thoroughly cooked will end up tasting like canned tuna.
If you are roasting or frying your steak, keep the heat at medium, and make each slice around two inches thick.
Fresh tuna is usually frozen immediately after it was caught, to maintain the least potential for containing parasites. After thawing the freshness is not affected, however, cooking directly without thawing will be the easiest way to cook Tuna .
I knew that the portion of veggies was enough from the Goodfood kit, I couldn’t resist picking up a little more kale from the Farm Gate Store’s beautiful arrangement!
Breakfast and Brunch
Cooking Beautiful Eggs
Deceptively simple, scrambled eggs are easy to learn and difficult to master. In How To Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs - 3 ways Jamie Oliver demonstrates three different styles - American, French and British-style scrambled eggs. Following along, I chose American-style scrambled eggs, because it seemed the most forgiving. Aside from my shells falling in, not a bad performance at all!
DaisyCode kitchen rule: If Fried Eggs fail, scrambled eggs will do.
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