Ocean puddle stew

Rich stew with a variety of sea food ingredients.

Ingredients (serves two):

• 1lb sea food mix. Fresh or ready to cook, as seen below.

This one in particular tastes very fresh and has a good variety of ingredients, octopus, squid, cuttlefish, clams, shrimps.

• 1 tsp minced garlic.
• 2 TBS oil.
• 1/2 chopped onion.
• 1 TBS chopped parsley.
• 1 TBS copped cilantro.
• 1 TBS chopped green onions.
• 1/2 cup chopped green peppers.
• 1 cup chopped variety of red, yellow, orange peppers.
• 1/2 cup chopped carrots.
• 1 tsp Chipotle pepper sauce. Or more if you like to kick up heat a bit.
• salt to taste.
• juice from 1/2 lime.
• 1 tsp soy sauce.
• 1 tsp fish sauce.
• 4+ cups water.

Steps:

1. Whether fresh or previously frozen, squeeze juice form 1/2 lime and mix with seafood.
2. Add oil to pot, onions, cook until soft. Add garlic, cook on medium-low heat for a minute
3. Add the seafood ingredients, bring heat to high and fry for 1 min, mix often
4. Add water and rest of ingredients, simmer for 30 min. Test bite a piece of squid or octopus to check, if too hard, simmer for another 10 min.
5. Complete with water if needed, salt to taste.