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Posted by Moriah on August 27th, 2009. Filed under: Foodie Finds.I was one of those kids who grew up in a home where NPR followed you from room to room and always in the car. It was Wyoming, after all. The only alternatives on the radio were country and christian. Luckily, I loved and still love NPR, so imagine my delight when I received for Christmas last year The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper…a cookbook from their award winning food show.
Not only is this book filled with engaging anecdotes and some of the best cooking tips I’ve come across, the recipes are all exceptional.
Here is one of my favorites (so YUMMY! and healthy), and it is super easy to make which is quite important in my sub-par economy-size kitchen.
Provencal Tuna Salad
Serves 2, 15 minutes prep
Three 6oz cans water-packed albacore tuna, thoroughly drained
1 cup halved grape tomatoes
1/2 cup whole Kalamata or Nicoise olives, preferably pitted
3 heaping tablespoons of drained capers
1/4 cup red onion
1/4 to 1/2 light packed cup chopped dill leaves
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice (about 1 1/2 large lemons)
Salt and fresh-ground pepper
Just mix it all together and leave at room temp for about an hour. Jason and I eat it on toasted slices of baguette.
I can not stress enough how delish this is! Must give it a try.
*For a vegetarian version, replace tuna with 2 cans of chickpeas and the dill with 1/2 light-packed cup of torn fresh basil leaves. Grate zest from one quarter organic orange directly over the dish.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I have tried with everything but the grapes…sound like a winner and what my tun was missing all along.
What do you think?
October 29th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Here’s a question. You are gifted in the kitchen, my dear Moriah. So my question is this: Will this cookbook be relatively idiot proof? Because I can handle recipes like the above listed; whereas they don’t take all day, and have very tasty ingredients. But if the majority are like, simmering sauces and such…I will be ripping my hair out. Would I be able to handle these recipes?
October 29th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Maybe Rainey! But I am not convinced that you would try anyway. I know your husband probably won’t eat them, since he is the picky eater, and YOU, well, you just don’t usually get too excited about cooking. But, I think you more than could handle the recipes, if you decided to go ahead and do so. Loves!
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