Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Hope you had a great Easter weekend! Now that we've caught up, let's waste no time on fluff. This recipe is yet another favorite that I have since added to my collection. It's out of Sara Forte's wonderful cookbook, "The Sprouted Kitchen - A Tastier Take on Whole Foods" which I had bought for my mother-in-law. I know it's cheap, I know, but I made a copy of the tuna salad recipe out of the book before gifting it (teeheehee). I am so glad I did.
Jhet and I took a trip to California last summer, and I brought this recipe along with us since we booked a hotel with a kitchenette. Best beach picnic food EVAR! Sara Forte reminisces about how her mom used to make beach picnic food like this, and it brought back memories of my mom packing us up in the car and spontaneously hauling us off to the beach. Jhet and I had a blast, sitting on our little blanket in the cool sand (I emphasize
cool sand because in Texas, the hot sand burns your feet until you hit the water!) and munchin' out on some refreshingly non-goopy tuna salad.
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| California! |
I am very excited to share this recipe with you all, especially since I can't seem to find it on Sara Forte's
site online. I made a few minor adjustments to it but it is essentially the same. The great thing about this recipe is the lack of mayonnaise. Too often I get a hankering for tuna salad, and get disappointed by the soupy mess of mayo and fish. Gross. This offers a split between mayonnaise and Dijon mustard, a happy alternative that I will use from this point on! The photos for this aren't the best I've done, but don't discount the recipe for lack of a better visual reference!
As a side note, this is what has been keeping me away from the blog:
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| New Orleans |
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| ...We got to ride in the St. Patrick's Day Parade!! |
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| Oregon |
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| Utopiafest |
Okay enough biography, time for food!
