Grilled Ahi Tuna with Lime Tomato Garlic Sauce & Smothered Okra & Tomatoes over Rice

I have finally tweaked the Lime Tomato Garlic Sauce recipe to perfection. It was absolutely perfect tonight. The Grilled Ahi Tuna was grilled to a rare, perfect in our book. And the Smothered Okra and Tomatoes over rice was great tasting too! Dinner was great tonight. I need to figure out what I plan on cooking this next week so we can do our shopping for the week. We are both off tomorrow for the holiday, MLK, Jr. day and are going to try to ride up to Snoqualmie Falls to see the waterfall. It is supposed to be "raging." We were busy today cleaning up the house and going through stuff to consolidate / give away. But we actually got one project completed. Our spice collection is quite large and we buy as much as we can in bulk. A couple of weeks ago I bought a Food Saver vacuum packager and it came with a wide mouth mason jar sealer. We've been using the small half-pint mason jars for some of our spices but today we packaged up all of our bulk spices in both pint (vacuumed sealed for shelf storage) and half-pint (for daily use and stored in the drawer) jars for storage. Even without using the jar sealer, the spices are sealed better than they were in their original packaging. However, the jar sealer sucks out all the air and gives them that freshness vacuum and will hopefully extend their shelf life. We usually go through a lot of spices because we believe in seasoning our food both in the marinating process and in the cooking process. I love our Food Saver and believe it will definitely pay for itself. Menu Fourteen for 2006: Grilled Ahi Tuna with Lime Tomato Garlic Sauce Smothered Okra and Tomatoes over Rice 0 new recipes today 12 new recipes for 2006