Tarte and Parcel: The Blue Period

Let's change things up and get to the recipe straight away.

Seared Tuna Sandwich with Blueberry Wasabi Sauce

* Ingredients *

1 pound tuna

1/4 cup cornmeal

1 tablespoon olive oil

Salt and pepper

1 tablespoon honey

3 teaspoons wasabi

1 tablespoon oil

1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1 cup fresh blueberries, slightly crushed 

1 cup arugula

Crusty Baguette - toasted if you like it that way. 

* Instructions * 

1. Heat olive oil in pan. Coat fish in cornmeal. Seer each side of the tuna until brown, leaving center rare. Leave tuna rest in pan for 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove and cool completely.

2. Mix honey, vinegar, wasabi and sugar. Stir in blueberries.

3. Slice tuna into thin steaks. Serve on baguette with blueberrry sauce and arugula.   

If you are looking for an appetizer option, this sandwich could also work nicely as a bruchetta. 

At turn of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso entered what is known now as his "blue period." Grieving the death of a friend lost to suicide, Picasso spent 3 years focusing on palettes of blues and greens. Today, these paintings are some of the most famous and beloved works in his collection.

I hurt... but challenging times can help you build resolve, strength and confidence. Like Picasso, I like to vent my emotion via creative outlets. This weekend I have experimented with my own blue period - blueberries, blue corn flour and blue cheese. The recipe above turned out best, but not sure it helped my mood. Hopefully, there won't be 3 more years of this. Blue cheese is stinky.