In starting the project of switching my diet to organic and whole foods, I discovered a love for cooking at home...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tuna Casserole
When I was a little girl my parents worked different shifts - my father worked the afternoon shift and my mother worked the day shift. For as long as I can remember my father has been the cook of the house - my mother rarely cooked if my father was around. During the week though, when it was time for dinner and we were on our own, my mother would make one of three meals. Dinner was either Kraft Dinner, Rice-a-roni and some kind of meat, or tuna casserole. As a child I HATED tuna casserole. I have memories of my mother nearly having to force feed it to me. Then, years later when I was a teenager, I started really enjoying tuna and wouldn't you know it, my mother would rarely ever make it. Oh well... Anyway, I decided to forgo the Tuna Helper mix and made it from scratch the other night. Oh how I've missed homemade tuna casserole. I made enough for about four servings but it was so good we ate it all.
Pretty simple to throw together:
Pasta of choice 2 cans of tuna 1 onion, chopped 1/2 green pepper, diced 1/2 cup mushrooms, chopped 2-3 tbsp butter 2 tbsp flour 2 cups milk Salt and pepper to taste Cheese of choice shredded over top 350F for 20 - 25 min.
I wanted to diarize the changes in my diet because this is a really important 'project' for me and I wanted a way to look back at what I tried and how my tastes expanded and evolved by broadening my nutritional horizon.
The quasi-recipes I'm posting are more for my record than for anyone to actually follow. I'm sure much better recipes could be found in books and online, these are just my experiments that my partner and I have enjoyed. I mostly free-style while cooking, occasionally looking up a recipe online to get a better idea of a measurement of something. I find that the more I wing it, the more fun it is to cook.
All ingredients used are organic unless otherwise specified.
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