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| Photo from Taste of Home |
(Interestingly, you know how photos will sometimes pop up on your device from one year ago today? I happened to glance at my "one year ago" photos and found they were of fiddleheads, which we tried last year for the first time. We were eating fiddleheads on the exact same date this year!)
Anyway, back to the salad. I like to double the quantities of pasta and tuna (I use Ronzoni gluten free elbow macaroni), and leave the dressing quantities the same. The single recipe makes plenty of dressing, even with the additional pasta and tuna. I also use chives (since I have a plant in my backyard) rather than green onions.
Mr. T declares this to be "one of those meals I just can't stop eating." (Now you know why I double the recipe.) It's a good basic main-dish salad and calls for no ingredients that wouldn't be on hand in most pantries. We enjoy this meal and I hope that you will, also.
OOH fiddleheads! It has been a long time since I've had any! It was a favorite dish we always looked forward to in spring at my grandmother's. And that tuna pasta salad sounds wonderful, a great dish for the upcoming summer months too :)
ReplyDeleteMMM-mm, fiddleheads are indeed tasty. Did you have them on PEI? What about Idaho? Do you have the same types of ferns there?
DeleteHope you enjoy the salad if you try it. That's a great frugal recipe as well ... very inexpensive and makes a large bowl full.
I've never heard of fiddleheads! What do they taste like? Thank you for the recipe link. Sounds yummy.
ReplyDeleteSome say that they taste a bit like asparagus. I don't really think so, but can't really think what to compare them too. A bit like spinach, maybe.
DeleteHope you enjoy the salad if you try it. It's a favorite here!
Well you had me singing along with your post that no longer exists. 🤦🏻♀️ I have been having such trouble with posts that now one is up twice. Some people could see it; some couldn't. Suppose your story is the same?
ReplyDeleteI like tuna casseroles, but fiddleheads are an acquired taste. 🙂 Very nutritious I am sure. Have you got a secret patch or must you buy them? My mother had a secret spot. She never even told me!
Oh, I am so sorry to get a song stuck in your head ... and there is nothing particularly edifying about that one. The post published itself somehow before I was anywhere near ready ... and I now know that happened to you as well.
DeleteThese fiddleheads came from someone else's secret patch ... a relative of one of my hubby's co-workers. He collects grocery bags full of them every year and gives them away! I would be nervous about trying to identify fiddleheads myself, but I will gladly take a bagful if a seasoned forager is giving them away!