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Tuna and egg salad is a light, fish salad you can take to a potluck and impress everyone with its (easy to do) arrangement. Alternatively, it's a great Saturday or Sunday option at home. Flavorful and versatile, it was made for summer.
People keep beautiful cookbooks. My sister for example. She has a sheet protector in which she keeps hundreds of loose pages, each a piece different from another. She's collected them over the years.
There is no organization to it.
She hears of a recipe and writes it down. Sometimes someone writes a recipe for her. She puts all of this in her pile. And puts the pile into the sheet protector. When she takes them out to look for a specific recipe, it's always a happy mess. Like when she looked for this tuna and egg salad. (This tuna salad was greatly inspired by the CroChef). Although she gets frustrated going through a hundred pages - where each one could be the recipe or not at all - she derives satisfaction of flipping through those chapters of her life. Her recipes are also her memories...
There is recipe for a a cake there, written just before she made it for my nephew's first birthday, nephew who is in college now. And chocolate squares which aren't allowed a moment to cool down before being devoured by a horde of hungry us.
My cookbook is this blog. I can't touch it, but I derive pleasure from looking through it, those rare times when I'm not thinking of a new recipe, or planning something just right to share with you. I love reading each of your comments, and suggestions. I like sharing stories with you, and hearing yours.
It's now been more than two years since I started this adventure. And it wouldn't have been possible without you. Thank you for being there. 🙂
(Hungry for more salads? Check out the Russian classic Salad Olivier, as well as Chicken and Veggie Salad.)
Tuna and Egg Salad
Ingredients
- SALAD
- 5 eggs
- 10 young potatoes smaller
- 1 cup corn kennels
- 7 ounces canned tuna
- 1 yellow onion medium
- 1 to mato large
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- Lettuce optional
DRESSING:
- 3.5 tablespoons oil
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- ½ lemon juiced
- ½ tablespoon salt
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon mayo
Instructions
- In a smaller pot, bring eggs to boil on high, then lower heat and let boil for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, peel potatoes and place in another pot. Bring potatoes to boil on high, lower the temperature and check to see whether they're done. Potatoes are ready when you can stab them with a fork easily but they are not falling apart. Finally, bring corn kennels to a boil in another small pot and remove from heat.
- Drain eggs, potatoes and corn. Peel and cut eggs into rounds the thickness of 2-3 pennies stacked together. Cut potatoes into rounds the same way as eggs. Mince onion.
- Dice the tomato, mince parsley, combine and leave aside for the top of the salad.
- Make the dressing by combining all ingredients and whisking them well.
- Take a large bowl and start layering your salad. You should have a total of two to three layers of everything. Start with potato rounds, add tuna, then eggs, corn, and onion. Then top it generously with the dressing. Repeat once or twice, depending on how many ingredients you have left. Top each layer with the dressing.
- Once you are finished add the tomatoes and parsley on top.
- Keep in the fridge until you are ready to eat it, and eat it the same day.
AJ Paradis says
This is so pretty, and what a great mix in there! I'm, unfortunately, a little like your sister, minus the pleasure. My other half just forced me to transcribe the recipes that were scattered throughout (totally overtaking) my verb conjugation practice notebook. It seems that I definitely prefer one over the other. lol.
Aida says
I love that you guys have physical (recipe) evidence though! Even after you transcribe it, keep the notebook.
But it's also good to transcribe it somewhere for the sake of keeping it. How wonderful would it be to have your grandma or someone who's gone return for one weekend to teach you your favorite recipes?
My grandma made bread better than anyone I know. I wish I could make it that way, but it went away with her. I'm hoping the blog is a way of keeping these recipes alive.