@brucesw was asking about a canned Tuna thread – here you go!!
I use A LOT of Tuna and try to get it on sale. Lately, one grocery store has been running a 10 cans for $5 special.
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One of our new favorite easy meals for dinner is Tuna Cakes… @LindaWhit gave me a recipe for a lemon aioli which works perfect on these.
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I think he was asking for a general thread about tinned fish - I hope we can change the title to tinned fish (and for me personally tuna is the most boring tinned fish tastewise)
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I’m sure the mods can easily adjust the title to “Tinned Fish and Canned Tuna Thread for Bruce!!”
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I like Tunisian Tuna Sandwiches
and Tunisian Tuna Salad.
We really enjoyed a tuna artichoke paella last week.
I make tuna cakes / patties, too.
For a pasta made with sardines and anchovies, I like this Pasta di San Giuseppe. I leave out the fennel (the vegetable) .
I also love this sandwich
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Great thread idea! I’ll follow @ipsedixit’s example and post my own current selection … pulled from my absolutely chaotic cabinet and re-arranged on the basement floor. (With a few Pellegrino bottles in the background to help block the also rather chaotic state of the basement right behind where I took the photo…)
I mostly prefer sardines to tuna (always packed in oil), and I think they sub pretty well in just about any application. The Korean tuna with peppers is a new acquisition and I haven’t sampled it yet. Excited to give it a go shortly. That one, I don’t think will be quite equivalent to other tinned fish; it apparently contains some potato and carrot chunks, among other things.
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I was disappointed with the much-touted Fishwife brand, especially given the price tag.
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I haven’t tried it yet either. Really not a canned tuna fan. I bought it on a whim when it was on sale at Target and always reach around it for a can of sardines instead…
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Did you like the Fishwife tuna? I’ve been wanting to try it … some Costcos have it but I don’t know the price. I always buy Wild Planet tuna at Costco.
I prefer almost any tinned fish over tuna (I don’t care much for tuna, fresh or canned) — gimme herring, mackerel, sardines, mussels, razor clams, etc.
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Aldi had it for cheaper. Still pretty uninteresting. I have the one with Spanish lemon left, but have not been in a rush to open it.
I’m very fond of tuna salad made with Wild Planet (I used to buy Bumble Bee White), good to keep cans in pantry.
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My PIC is very fond of tuna salad made with the Genova brand yellowfin in olive oil, and I regularly make it for his lunches.
I have no beef with tuna salad per se — certainly not my own, which is delicious, but I find canned tuna ‘as is’ terribly boring. As I posted upthread, there’s far more interesting canned fish out there.
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I find that especially water-packed, it has a “smell” that I can’t quite get around. Oil-packed ones are much better but still have a little bit. That’s why I bought the Fishwife stuff actually - I was hoping the smell would be masked by the peppers.
All of that said: My spouse likes water packed tuna and complains that my sardines smell like cat food. So…to each their own.
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Julia Child said she always bought tuna packed in olive oil … the Wild Planet is not packed in water, just packed in a little of its own juices, which I drain and discard.
(I used to give juice and a bit of tuna to my cat but she started ignoring it so now I don’t bother.)
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Thank you for the thread title change!!
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I forgot I keep some canned fish in my “Power Outage” box. I date the cans and change them out every six months or so.
I figure during a power outage I could use the canned salmon to make some type of dinner using my butane stove or rocket stove.
I should probably add a box of minute rice to that power outage box. A “fried rice” with canned vegetables and canned salmon sounds like a pretty good dinner??
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