Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Can't-Sleep Emergency-School-Lunch Tuna Salad

For some reason I can't sleep. There are too many things on my mind, and one of them is not having figured out school lunches for tomorrow. I didn't get to the grocery store, but with a few cans of tuna in the pantry, I thought I'd make myself useful at this time of day and make a tuna salad for school.

Here's what I tossed together:

1 6-oz. can water-packed tuna, drained and flaked
1 hard-boiled egg, chopped
1 stalk celery, minced
1 scallion, minced
1/4 cup cilantro, minced
2 Tbsp. canola mayonnaise
1 Tbsp. sour cream (only added because I didn't have enough mayonnaise…)
1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
sprinkling of kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

The first taste test was encouraging. I really love the fresh cilantro in the mix. The salad will be refrigerated until the morning when I will put it on sandwich bread. Hopefully, the flavors will blend even better and be a tasty little lunch for the girly-whirls.

Somewhere, I have a recipe for tuna salad that is entirely dairy-free. I'll try to find it in the morning and make that recipe for comparison. :)

Update: Just wanted to add that the girls and dear hubby really liked the tuna salad and gobbled it all up, leaving nothing for me to taste, not even a teaspoon. I guess that's a good sign.


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