Seared ahi. It may have you thinking back to the days in the early 90’s when it seemed that every restaurant was going avant and serving a thick slice of almost raw tuna. We were all so amazed to be served this supremely rare piece of fish at a non-Japanese restaurant. Well the phenomenon has cooled a bit, but it seems that seared ahi is here to stay. Now home chefs, and restaurants of a lower caliber are serving up pieces of tuna, the breath barely being taken from the gills. And of course, I have something to say about it.
I have eaten one too many dry, overly meaty tuna steaks to let this behavior go on. It’s the typical story: I order seared ahi and out comes a beautiful, thick steak, grill marks dark and emblazoned. But then I cut into it. It is desiccated, parched of any moisture, [...]
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