I didn't realize it 'til last night, but tuna is such a comfort food to me.
We had tuna salad sandwiches for dinner. I went to the salad bar after the gym to get celery and onion, and in the interest of adding more vegetables where ever I can, I added bell pepper and radishes to the mix too, so the salad had some good crunch. Then when I got home, I realized we were almost out of mayonaise, so I had to improvise with the dressing...a squirt of yellow mustard (which was all we had...how often do you run out of multiple condiments at once?) and some olive oil. I figured tuna gets packed in olive oil, right?
It worked well. It was moist enough, it tasted really good, and it calmed me down a bit after a sad visit to the vet.
I have bad reactions to a lot of fish (salmon, unfortunately, being the worst) but I can eat tuna. When I was a kid I ate it all the time...I'd actually take it right from the can and spoon it onto slices of cheese and eat it that way. When we had something for dinner I didn't like (like pork chops) I'd eat tuna instead. (The deal at my house was, if you didn't like what mom made, you didn't have to eat it, but you had to make your own dinner without getting in her way and you still had to eat with the family.) One of the few foods my dad made was tuna salad, which he served on toast with a pickle spear and a milkshake. One of the first "dinners" I cooked was the mock tuna casserole...a box of macaroni and cheese, a can of peas, and a can of tuna. I kept making that into adulthood; my ex-husband called it "chunky puke" but ate it anyway.
Victor makes me the Tom Servo special sometimes. You need to know your Mystery Science Theater to understand:
Mmmm, this tuna melt sammich
Really tastes quite nice.
[spoken] Ohh, I got sesame seeds in the bun.
Plus it comes with cole slaw n' a pickle,
And I must say it's reasonably priced.
I've gotten a little more fancy with my tuna lately, grilling real filets or making Fagioli Toscanelli con Tonno. But sometimes simple is best. I have the rest of the tuna salad with me for lunch today, and bread to toast for my sandwich. If I had a pickle, it would be perfect.
Posted by Nic at February 27, 2004 08:16 AM | TrackBack