How About A Tuna Salad With Movie Star Gene Tierney!
You see, when people think about making a tuna salad, they remember all of those old-fashioned retro dishes like this ad shows…but the modern tuna salad is much different!
A modern tuna salad is fresh and delicious….and changes the narrative of what a tuna pasta salad can be:
There’s a scene in the film “As Good As It Gets” when Jack Nicholson challenges the notion that we all have a sad story to tell using a pasta salad as an example.
“That’s not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad …. A lot of people. That’s their story. Good times. Noodle salad.”
With his words ringing in my ears, time for a fast, easy and delicious tuna pasta salad!
The Washington Post had a great article about the simple enjoyment of a tuna pasta salad… She wrote:
“I went with little elbow macaroni because it allows the fork to capture a mixture of the varied ingredients in each bite.”
The key is to prep everything – have it all cut up so when you are ready to make the salad it’s not cooking, it’s compiling!
Here are the ingredients:
one small diced onion
five cloves of diced garlic
six cherry tomatoes chopped
one stalk of diced celery
1/2 diced cucumber
one box of macaroni shells
one cup of roasted corn
two eggs
whatever dressing you like – I used chik-fil-a sauce!
After prepping all of the ingredients, I boiled two cups of macaroni noodles and hard-boiled two eggs and let them cool. That’s really all the cooking there is!
I thawed some roasted corn and added it to the cooked macaroni noodles…then all of the other ingredients into a bowl.
For crunchy contrast, the chopped onion and celery work nicely… then, I added some Chik-fil-A” sauce and mixed it in!
It’s light, fresh and delicious, and you can have it
I spent an entire year doing a “52 In 22” cooking challenge – a new recipe from one of our cookbooks every week, and I only tackled a salad a few times – but I did make this one:
It was a unique and delicious recipe using roasted chickpeas and more!
Click here for the recipe:
Yes, there are so many unique ways to make a salad – like this one:
Well, this one came with a roast chicken on the side!
Click here for the classic Zuni Cafe’s recipe!
That recipe was part of my “52 In 22” cooking challenge from last year. I also cooked a traditional Italian “Sunday Gravy”, with an interesting assist from Actor / Cookbook Author / Food Travel Host Stanley Tucci:
I learned a fascinating bit of information about how you are supposed to serve this dish, and you can see how I did by clicking on my story here:
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Here in Spain tuna is added to most salads. This one looks very good.
What does chick file sauce taste like? I use that line often to describe a bad day “I’m not eating noodle salad today”. Loved that movie.
The kids love tuna salad and I think mine needs an update adding celery and eggs would give my very basic tuna and sweetcorn salad a boost it sounds delicious, John 🙂
Sweet corn is something to be sure – I am a bit obsessed right now with roasted corn! Thanks for commenting, hope all is well!
All is well thank you John and I am definitely going to roast my corn next time thank you for the tip..I hope you are keeping well 🙂
I don’t like the smell and taste of canned Tuna, but my wife eats it all the time in salads and sandwiches.
Best wishes, Pete.
Tuna is a very polarizing food…even if you buy very expensive upscale versions it still tastes basically the same!