Welcome to my Blog - Luis's Ceviche

Hello everyone!

My name is Luis Leonardo, I am originally from Guatemala and English is not my first language, but I do enjoy writing in it, even when I been told in the past by people that know me in person, that sometimes they can hear my accent when they read through my awesome English writing skills. So, for those that are looking for a laid back, not very sophisticated or perfectly written blog, you came to the right place and excuse me in advance if you can sense how English is not my first language but I hope you enjoy reading my blog posts.

A little bit about me and my awesome family. My wife, Angela and I move to Walnut Creek, California in October 2007 all the way from Minnesota, where Angela is from. In April 2010, our son, Noah, was born on Earth’s day and he has filled my life with the most amazing love I could ever experience.

Walnut Creek has become a great place to live, meet great people, make real friends (some that I consider my family away from my family) and start chasing some of my BIG dreams.

Last year, with the help and motivation of one of my friends, Kyle Leto, who is a professional triathlete. We decided to take our passion for the sports that we love and we develop a very unique concept called "Team Fitness Evolution". I figure that with Kyle’s knowledge of the sport and me been a former member of the Guatemalan triathlon team, we could join forces and offer people an alternative in coaching using our own experiences in the sport of triathlon (swim-bike-run). Now, about a year ago later, with the help of the great people that believed in us from the beginning and with the help of our team sponsors: Sports Basement, Clif Bar, Sport Stars Magazine, Inner Action Chiro, Mizuno and Club Sport we have something very cool going on with Team Fitness Evolution.  This is just the beginning or the tip of the iceberg for Team Fitness Evolution. I am confident that when you are fallowing your passion, you enjoy to the fullest what you are doing and you surround yourself with great people, the sky is the limit. With the right mix of hard work, motivation and direction I know there are great things coming and I am willing to break the mold and keep doing things in the way that I know and I believe at one hundred percent.

I want to keep this blog very laid back and I hope people that read it will understand that this is something I want to keep very fun, fresh and use it to share some of the things I love in life. By any means I want to have this blog be something that I keep just to talk about one kind of stuff “training” or become something that will drive me crazy because I need to make sure all I am writing is in perfect manner and making full sense all the time. This blog is one way for me to say “welcome to my life”, I’ll be myself and I will do my best to keep this fun and entertaining.

Ok, with all that been said. I can’t think of a better way to break the ice with some of you and share my own and original recipe to make what I consider one of the best ceviche’s in the world. I figure I only have so many things in common with some of you, non runners or non triathletes, but everyone loves good food and what a better way to use my first post to share with you guys a very healthy recipe for one of my favorite recovery foods. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do!!

Luis’s Ceviche:

Ingredients:

1 lbs of white fish fillets (corvina, halibut, sea bass, tilapia, sole), cut into small square pieces

1lbs of shrimp, cut in halfs
6 Roma tomatoes, cut into small square pieces
10 to 12 limes

1 white, yellow or red onion, cut into small square pieces
1 bunch of cilantro, chopped as finely as possible
2-3 tbs olive oil

1 or 1/2 small can of V8 juice

3 tbs of ketchup

1 tbs of Chicken Consome powder (instant soup/seasoning mix)
Salt to taste

Preparation:

1.    Place the raw fish and shrimp pieces in a dish and cover it with salt, 3 to 4 a tablespoon of chopped cilantro, 1 whole chopped onion and lime juice from about 10 to 12 limes, the fish and shrimp should be completely covered by lime juice.

2.    Cover the dish with plastic wrap, put it in the fridge and chill, let the fish/shrimp cook itself in the lime juice for at least 4 hours.

3.    Combine the fish with the tomatoes, V8, ketchup and Chicken Consome powder, mix well and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving.

4.    Serve with chips, feel free to add some good hot sauce and ENJOY!!