Today's lunch was simple, but quite tasty, nonetheless:
Romaine lettuce leaves with tuna salad.
This was inspired by something I had a a restaurant some time back, it's a good way to boost your veggie intake a little bit. The basic concept is to take some firm romaine leaves and put a little tuna salad along the inside of the rib- kind of like what you do to stuff a piece of celery with peanut butter. This would work with chicken salad or egg salad, as well. If you use the floppier leaves of lettuce, you can roll them around the salad of your choice. Personally, I prefer the firmer leaves (they're less of a mess to eat).
It's kind of like a tuna salad sandwich without the bread. Because the lettuce leaves are somewhat scoop shaped, they hold the tuna salad nicely. It's tasty, quick and usually not terribly expensive (depending on the price of the head of lettuce).
It's also lunch box friendly, if you can assemble the tuna salad just before you eat (though this makes it a little more expensive). Wash your leaves, wrap gently in paper towel and place inside a zipper bag. Then put a pouch of drained tuna, a packet or 2 of mayo or a little cup of ranch salad dressing, a small dish and a fork into your lunch box/bag, along with a freezer pak. Place the bag with the romaine leaves on top, as they could be damaged by the weight of the other stuff. If you like any other stuff in your tuna salad, like relish or onion, just put it in a little container or zipper bag (the 'snack size' is great for this) and add it to the bag. Personally, I like to add dried minced onion.
So anyway, that is one simple lunch option for those who don't have a problem with lettuce, fish or mayo (ingredients include egg, vinegar and oil, and usually some other stuff).
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Great idea! I've done this on occasion but I usually just eat my tuna salad out of the bowl... I forget I can put it on lettuce.
ReplyDeleteI love the dried minced onion in my tuna salad...hate raw onion, but the dried doesn't have that nasty "bite" that raw does.
Another add for tuna salad is something my friend Fifi does... she adds blueberries or other small fruit/berries to her tuna salad. I didn't think I would like it, but I was really hungry so I ate it... and it was delicious! She also sometimes adds nuts or seeds.
I often forget to do it too, but I do so enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteAs for the fruit, well, I'll have to take your word for it. The concept is quite unappealing to me, to put it mildly, LOL. Though I have had chicken salad with cranberries, and that wasn't terrible...