CTRC E10 Intimate Tuna

Hi Coverdollers!  Chef Toy-R-Cees here.  Fixing a little something that you can share with someone you care about.  Now, this month, I am here in the Den all alone (no assistants this issue).  Since I will be the only one talking, we can make this a quickie!   (OK??)  And…..the recipe is……Tuna salad.  

Now, I wanted to make something with the easter eggs we had left over from last month….but I highly recommend that you use some fresh eggs, and get them boiled up the way we described in great detail last month.  You will also need some celery, onions, pickles, salt, pepper, a little mayo, some bread,  and a few cans of tuna (or a single big can).  

Peel the eggs, and then go to town with your dicing knife.  Everything will be sliced into small pieces.  Do this with the eggs, the celery, the pickles, and the onions.  As you slice up each ingredient, you put them all in a big bowl.  It is ok if the pickles get some egg mixed with them.  Ultimately, everything will make it into the bowl.  

Add the tuna straight from the can(s).  Add a little mayo!  Actually, you add mayo to your own tastes.  Foxy has told me that some buffets he has been to are under the assumption that many in the western culture love mayo, and he has seen many a good dishes ruined with too much mayo…….but to each their own.  For our salad,  we are adding just a little mayo (perhaps a tablespoon’s worth), a pinch of salt and pepper to taste. Stir it all together with a big spoon.  Cool kitchen this month…..no need to heat this, in fact some people like it chilled.  You can stick it in fridge if you wish.

Finally, grab a few slices of bread.  You may choose to toast it, or not.  For us, we like pita bread (it makes a wonderful little pocket that you can stuff with tuna salad).  You could even eat tuna salad on crackers (if there is not bread in the house).

Tuna salad is easy, tasty, simple……and yes…..it can have that sexy ‘A’ effect on some people.  You could have it with wine under candlelight if the mood is right.

And that brings me to the ‘intimate’ portion of this episode.  Friends, the world seems to be so unhappy these days.  If you follow the news, you may find yourself feeling this way.  While we here in the kitchen absolutely refuse to politicize anything going on in the world, it does affect us (like it does everyone).  So think of this month’s message as a reminder——>  All you need is love……..(and something good to eat).   

Join me again next month for more cooking fun.  Keep those cards, letters, and comments coming.  Enjoy the heat…………mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!