What's in your perfect tuna salad sandwich?
Mine is tuna, finely chopped celery, white onions and dill pickles in equal volumes. A small amount of mayo to hold everything together, a small squirt of yellow mustard, plus salt and pepper. Serve on buttered bread.
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Tuna mixed with olive oil, a squeeze of lemon and a dash of harissa, plus sliced cucumber, all in a fresh, warm baguette.
That's a tasty sounding sandwich 😋 greenhouse season starts soon and I'll have too many cucumbers, I'll give it a try 👍
Thinking on this still, hours later. Sounds kinda like a banh mi sandwich, which I love
I would never have thought to add celery but that's a good tuna crunch.
I think I've only ever had tuna, (huge amount of) mayo, finely chopped peppers and red onions, salt, pepper.
Yours sounds better.
I am pretty simple when it comes to tuna salad
Mayo cornichons capers salt pepper mix well and then eat with pickled red onion
Yeah mine ends up with a good crunch. Sometimes I'll throw some sweet peppers in if I have some around, that's a good mix too 🤝
Mayo, mustard, pickles, boiled egg, and apples.
Whoa. That's a wild one. Might have to try it 🤔
I've had it with grapes in it, but I like the crisp apples. And adding boiled eggs to any salad makes it better...except maybe fruit salad 🤔
That's why I like the celery, extra crunch!
I hate celery 🤢 I wish I didn't, but I do.
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Yep! Glad you had this handy, I didn't feel like searching 😂
I gotcha 😂💜
I consider myself fortunate I grew up with a Granny who's attitude was "eat it or starve". No one ever got a special dish 😂 Opened my palette at a young age.
We were not well off when I was young and at one point my mom got us on welfare. When you have to eat what you get because you can't get naught else, you don't grow up icky nor do you develop "food allergies"
Pineapple and celery just for Yarnlady & Marie 😤😂🫂
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I was expecting my gelatinous meat post earlier to get more people angry about food.
Needed pineapple I guess 🤷♂️
There is a version of this that is a Polish delicacy 🇵🇱
I'd eat pineapple on pizza before I'd try this 🤢🤮
I'm not down with this either, looks like a bad combo. 😂
You'll eat it and you'll like it. There are starving kids in Africa.
Maybe if there's a layer of peanut butter under the pineapple though 🤔
Still hard pass 😂
I don't think I ever got that line as a kid, only saw it on sitcoms 😂 Granny was hardcore, if you complained she would just say "Fine", and hand your plate to the next grandkid. Of course if you didn't eat your meal you got no dessert, so you ate it. 🤣 The desserts were worth it. Smart lady.
Lol I don't think we ever got it either, but we did get you can eat what I'm cooking or you can have a mayonnaise sandwich or a you can just starve... I ate a lot of mayonnaise sandwiches and had a lot of rice with ketchup as a kid. Let's just say my dad had a shitty idea of what food is and my mom had to cook what he liked. It's the reason I like to cook fun "exotic" food for the kid. Both parents wrinkle their noses and are shocked the kid likes some of it.
I was extremely lucky that way growing up. Granny lived in the same yard on the ranch, and both my parents are good cooks, though mom was a picky eater. A huge garden plus homegrown beef, pork, poultry, eggs, and milk helped too.
I sometimes have friends families over for supper, and it's not uncommon for them to be worried their children won't want to eat what I'm preparing, only to be surprised when they finish the plate. Knowing how to cook is a great skill to have. I especially like it when kids appreciate it, they are very unfiltered 😂
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I put the remainder of the sandwich filling on another stalk of celery as part of my lunch today. Love it, especially combined with onions 😋😂
I like to use mustard powder instead so I can control the wetness with the mayo. Garlic powder and onion powder and black pepper. Dill pickle on the side (again to control moisture).
I get that. I barely use any mayo, just enough to bind things together. Maybe 1.5 tbsp for 2 sandwiches.
If I have good Mayo on hand (no seed oil nonsense), I go pretty hard on the mayo for myself, but not so hard that it's offputting if I'm sharing, but I fucking love good mayo.
Everything sounds good but I am surprised nobody loves the extra mercury!
Replace tuna with sardine filets, I do that often.
Now you are talking! But, why ruin the flavor with bread and condiments? Hell, why even cook them when they taste so delicious fresh?
almost the same as mine, except, replace mustard with a squeeze of lemon for acidity.
Gotta have that acidity, hence the pickles. I'm a weird one that doesn't like lemon on fish 🤷♂️
If I had to say my perfect tuna salad recipe is a copy cat of Whole Foods and it’s not $12 per pound.
2 cans of solid white tuna in water (5 ounce cans)
1/4 cup mayonaise
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper
little pinch of sugar
tuna, hold the salad, hold the bread, and don’t cook it (I like sushi)
A little Tapitio and you're good.
no bread tho
A lot of people seem to not tolerate bread well. I guess I'm lucky.
Tuna, mayo, celery, Dijon, pickles—on toasted sourdough.
A little Dijon adds a nice tang 👍
what's the butter's job here?
Being delicious.
Unless you're buttering the bread before you toast it so it enhances the browning of the bread when it becomes toast then you're just repeating the job the mayonnaise is doing. Both add fat and moisture. You're double lubbing your sandwich when one layer is sufficient for fewer calories and basically the same flavors.
Make your own sandwich, I'll make mine 😂
