I was doubtful this would work for me because I was out of onions, but it’s so good that I will be making it again soon. Obviously the tuna is not a perfectly pure food, but I like it, and I have a lot in the pantry. I’m trying to work with what I have.
Mixed Salad Greens (big pile – probably 3 cups)
4.5 oz package of Starkist Hickory Smoked Tuna
1/2 an apple
1 stick celery
1/4 of a med. green pepper
1 T. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 T. Mayonnaise (homemade!)
1 T. Apple Cider Vinegar (or Red Wine Vinegar)
Whisk the apple cider vinegar, mayo and olive oil together in the salad bowl.
Dice the pepper, celery and apple.
Add greens and veggies to the bowl that holds the dressing. Toss well. You can either break up the tuna with a fork (those mylar pack are pretty compressed) and toss it with the greens and veggies, or you can just top the salad with tuna chunks.
My mom used to put apple in tuna salad, so that’s where I got that idea. In fact, my mom used make fantastic tuna melts in the broiler on Health Nut Bread with cheddar cheese. That was, of course, the old Health Nut recipe, but you can’t get that any more. The geniuses at Arnold bought the Brownberry/Catherine Clark bread recipes and then did away with them and only used the brand names. It’s a bit of a travesty, I think. I couldn’t eat it any more, of course (gluten!), but still.
I make my own mayonnaise because otherwise, I can’t avoid soybean and canola oils, both of which I think are crap foods. There’s *one* mayo you can buy that’s made of sunflower oil (Delouis Fils), but it’s hard to find and very expensive. If you have a food processor or blender, mayonnaise is very easy to make.
This sounds really good. I’m always looking for something I can send my husband to work with that’ll make him not miss bread and crackers. I’m going to give this a try either this week or next.
(I LOVE homemade mayo. Like you, I couldn’t find it without soybean and/or canola oil, so I decided to learn how to make it myself. Frustrating at first, but I’ve got it down pat now. SO worth it.)
Hm, what’s the matter with canola oil? Sunflower oil is way high in omega-6. I avoid soybean oil too but haven’t heard anything bad about canola.
I’ve seen olive oil mayo somewhere… maybe as aioli.
It’s heavily processed, most is GMO, it’s treated with hexane, the list goes on. Someone asked Mark Sisson the same thing a while ago, and he goes over it in more detail: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-canola-oil/
Found that Mark Sisson link last week. No more canola… which means no more mayonnaise! I don’t use enough to warrant making my own, dadblammit.