Another post in which I talk about food. With pictures.

San Francisco is often cold in the summer - June and July are months of layering clothing, often a sweater under a jacket under a scarf and hat. Which is why, naturally, we get really excited when the temperature goes above 70 degrees. So excited, in fact, that we celebrate - and what better way to celebrate heat than with a fiesta?

One freakishly warm Wednesday night I left work while the sun was still shining and the air was sweet. I got all the groceries I needed: cod fillets, flour tortillas, a few ears of corn, avocados, watermelon, peppers sweet and spicy and vibrantly colored, a tin of fava beans and lots of limes. Twenty to be exact, because there's a green grocer near us who sells them $3/20 and I can't be bothered to do the math and buy fewer. I tossed those groceries around with some mangoes, red onion, cabbage, jicama and tomatoes we had lying about the house and turned the radio on. After an hour or so of leisurely cooking we enjoyed a feast of fish tacos with re-fava'd beans, mango/corn salsa, jicama/cabbage citrus slaw, homemade guacamole (is there any other kind worth eating?) and watermelon.

Sure the fog had rolled in by the time we went back for seconds, but it still felt like Summer to us.

Recipes coming soon - but here are some pictures of our feast!

Cod cooked in taco seasoning, orange, lemon and lime juice.

Final products - fesh burrito, citrus coleslaw, guacamole, corn/mango salsa.

Ready for dinner... pre-seconds!