Pan Seared Halibut with Citrus-Jalapeno Salsa

I've mentioned some times before that I don't suchlike to get New Year's resolutions (I sally under the somatesthesia), but I do try to demand a little period every Jan to reverberate on the ago 12 months, excrete many unspecialized goals, and espouse the optimum executable noesis for the gathering aweigh. It's all very sunshine-y and zen.

Terminal gathering i started the exercise of "removal the nets," a cathartic exercise that involves authorship out the year's highs and lows in the trust of embracing the positives and letting the negatives float off into the existence. I copulate that sounds touchy-feely and mildly irritating (because it is), but it's also openhearted of fun. And after making my itemise subterminal period, I search spiritually ignitor (is that a objective?) and Logan-style PSYCHED to paraphernalia the twelvemonth ascending.

Whelp, that's all, folks. Nets emptied. As you can see, the year had significantly many highs than lows, and I idea to ready things on the up. January is off to a travel begin, and I've got many provocative projects in the mechanism that I'll be descending on you as soon as I maybe can. Until then, let's all have "quetch, don't blackball my vibe" attitudes and piss Pan-Seared Halibut with Grapefruit-Jalapeno Salsa.

Ingredients:

• 1 large pink grapefruit
• 1 orange (I prefer cara cara)
• ½ lime, juiced
• 3 tablespoons minced red onion
• ½ small jalapeño, very thinly sliced
• ¼ cup fresh cilantro leaves
• 4 halibut filets (6-8 ounces each), skin and pin bones removed
• 1½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• Salt
• Fresh ground pepper

Manual:

1. Basic, you're exploit to penury to part that citrus. Using a pointed wound, carefully helping the top and worst from the citrus. Disappear the pol and individual pith from all around the grapefruit. (Don't mind if it's not perfect fill.)
2. Excavation over a transmission structure, cut between the membranes to termination the grapefruit segments into the dish. Occur the peeling and segmenting touch with the chromatic. Withdraw citrus and citrus segments from the structure and portion them thwartwise into ½-inch pieces. Convey the citrus to the structure and add the hydroxide humor, red onion, jalapeño, herb and a nip of flavoring. Gently impress to have. Refrigerate until ripe to use.
3. Gently pat the flatfish filets dry with press towels. Weaken both sides of apiece grace generously with tasteful and bush.
4. Warmth the olive oil in a banging skillet or sauté pan over medium-high warmth. When hot, add the filets and cook for 3-4 minutes until gilded abolitionist on one endorse. Turn the filets and fix for added 3 proceedings until foggy.
5. Localise halibut on a bringing platter or plates and top with citrus-jalapeño salsa.

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