Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!

Anya ,'Showtime'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Aug 21, 2015 3:58:53 pm PDT #3838 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I just started eating tuna salad once a week, to get more fish in my diet (I eat salmon for dinner about once a week, so instead of eating it twice, I decided to just make one lunch a week be tuna salad). The cats are VERY happy to get the tuna water.

You could always alternate with chicken salad swapping in canned chicken for the tuna in your usual recipe.

A chicken salad recipe I like is just canned chicken, mayo, and halved red grapes. If you feel wild and crazy, add a dash of curry powder and/or slivered almonds.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2015 4:03:12 pm PDT #3839 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I should give my friend credit: when she said she was "leaving now," it was her house around the corner, not her parents' a mile away, where I thought she was, so she was really only ~20 minutes late. And dinner was delicious! And I was home by nine. So all in all, a good one.


-t - Aug 21, 2015 4:09:37 pm PDT #3840 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The most recent recommendation on tuna I've seen depended on your age, I think with older people "allowed" to have more? Where did I get that?

Huh, maybe that was some other fish, I can't find anything referencing it. But I found this [link] and this chart [link]

Now it's gonna bug me, what was the age-related dietary seafood guideline I almost remember?


-t - Aug 21, 2015 4:17:30 pm PDT #3841 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Glad to hear it, Jesse.

I eat tuna salad, egg salad, chicken salad, crab salad, and shrimp salad regularly, which are all basically the same recipe just swapping the protein. And they all freeze fine, afaic,so I can make larger batches and not have to eat it all up before it goes bad. I just divy it up into single-portion-sized containers so I can pull tomorrow's lunch out of the freezer in the evening to let it start thawing, and dump it over greens (actually into the bottom of a mason jar which I then fill with greens because I am all about salads in jars these days) or into half an avocado, or maybe wrap up in a tortilla.


sarameg - Aug 21, 2015 4:18:02 pm PDT #3842 of 30003

Yay, Consuela!

I think I've retrieved all stray tomatoes and tomato carnage from this morning's Great Tomato Massacre. God, I hope so. Would be bad otherwise. I should've taken pictures, but it was 7:30 and I was trying to get to work. Epic, epic mess from less than a pint of super ripe cherry tomatoes.

2 more days swimming @ Druid. I'm not minding it other than the driving (it's close-only 10 minutes-so only marginally longer than my walk-but I got stuck behind a stupid beer truck on the way home and the light at Charles is horridly timed and I was chlorine itchy!) I'll probably swim there on occasion next summer. Especially if I've moved to the new building.


Maria - Aug 21, 2015 4:36:50 pm PDT #3843 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

The Mid-Atlantic team in the Little League World Series is my hometown team. They are currently beating the Midwest team from Missouri 18-0 in the bottom of the 3rd. The game is on ESPN. This is a special team with some serious mojo going on.

Glad you were able to find a good alternative, sara.


Beverly - Aug 21, 2015 4:40:48 pm PDT #3844 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I'm with -t on salad recipe, mine is basically my (former) potato salad without the potatoes*, also my egg salad, with tuna, chicken, diced or shredded cooked ham. I have used leftover turkey white meat, it's not as successful. The important ingredient in all, though, is coarsely chopped hard-cooked egg, with green and or black olives, and/or chopped dill pickles, or chopped sweet pickle, mayo, mustard, onion* and garlic powder, black pepper, horseradish to taste, if desired, and paprika on the top for color.

My boss' near-hysterical younger sister was amazed to learn my emergency shrimp salad recipe: equal amounts canned shrimp and drained cooked small pasta shells, add cocktail sauce, toss, serve.

*I can't eat potatoes or onion solids


Beverly - Aug 21, 2015 4:41:54 pm PDT #3845 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

And also: YAY, Consuela!


Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2015 5:22:33 pm PDT #3846 of 30003
brillig

Hmm, ham salad, hadn't thought of that. I could put grated cheese in that. I do love me some ham.

I love egg salad, but I hate the prep. Yes, boiling water annoys me. First World problem for the win.


shrift - Aug 21, 2015 5:31:01 pm PDT #3847 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

In other news, I found the missing mouse for my desktop computer!