This is not the typical ‘Tuna Hot Dish / Casserole’. We like that but it’s more of a winter comfort food.
This is more of a spring / summer dish with a glass of good wine while watching a gorgeous sunset.
It is, of course, not the traditional version so food police can relax. I freely admit my transgression.
Tuna is not traditional, nor are the Greek olives. What is traditional is using the food that’s available and preparing a dish that suits your tastes.
What suits us is a more substantial dish for a main course. In Italy, this would be served without tuna, as a pasta course.
We were happy.
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This is an easy, main course pasta dish based on a classic Italian recipe. We added the tuna… and a few other things.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups (4oz, 120gr) bite-size pasta
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1/2 green pepper, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tbs capers
- 1/3 cup anchovy-stuffed green olives, cut in half
- 1/3 cup dry-cured Greek olives, cut in half
- 1 tsp basil
- 1 tsp oregano
- 15oz (450gr) whole tomatoes, chopped
- 12oz (350gr) tuna, canned
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions.
- Heat oil in a medium nonstick skillet.
- Add onion, pepper, garlic and paprika.
- Sauté until onion is tender.
- Add chopped tomatoes with their juices from chopping, capers, olives and herbs.
- Simmer, uncovered until thick, about 10 minutes.
- Drain and flake tuna.
- Add to sauce and heat through.
- Drain pasta, toss with sauce and serve.
Notes
Substitute pimiento-stuffed olives for the anchovy olives, or skip them.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
- Calories: 603
- Sugar: 10.4 g
- Sodium: 1267.9 mg
- Fat: 16.5 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 63.2 g
- Fiber: 9.5 g
- Protein: 51.5 g
- Cholesterol: 71.4 mg
Prefer ‘comfort food’? Tuna & Cauliflower Casserole
It didn’t rain today. We even had a bit of sunshine.
It’s not supposed to rain tomorrow, either. More sunshine.
I have hopes that I can get the tomato plants in the ground, and maybe some seeds planted. I considered it today, but when I stuck the how in the ground I realized it was still heavy mud. I’d like to be able to plant without sinking or losing a shoe.
I cleaned out all the pots around the pull that I plant annual herbs in so I’m ready to do that. They were a bit of a mess as I used them as birdfeeders for the doves all winter long.
They may have been a mistake.
Too late now.
In honor of the sunny afternoon I gave Hector a ham bone. They’ve been on sale at the garden store in the dog food section. He was thrilled. He raced around the yard, tossing it into the air, then rolling around in the grass with it.
Since he was so happy I went off to work.
15 minutes later I went back to check on him, expecting to find him happily gnawing on the bone.
I found his butt sticking out from under the hedge with a pile of dirt next to him.
He was burying the bone.
I yelled, I may have delivered a swat to those buttocks, then crawled under the hedge to dig out the bone. I washed it off. He asked for it back and, after a stern discussion, I gave it to him. He laid in the shade, happily gnawing.
I turned my back.
When I looked again he was burying it under the wisteria.
Either he has to stop digging or I have to stop caring.
I’m sorry, but I’m really laughing here. I told you what my husband did. We only had one Dobe that dug holes. He got hold of that dog’s collar while he took the hose, filled that hole with water and then held the dogs head under until it just about stopped struggling. It never dug another hole. I’m not saying I agree with it, but it did work. I’m still sorry though.
We had tornados through the state yesterday as well as Ohio and a few others. It was pretty bad. And a ton of rain. I have started working in the yard, but the weather has been hit or miss so it’s more miss than hit still. I don’t get it, this is May for heaven’s sake! And today, I’m sick. *sigh*
Dogs so love to dig …I have filled in endless holes, just part of doggy ownership for me. The punishment of a dog in one of the other comments here has really shocked and upset me .
I’m sorry that shocked and upset you. I won’t make excuses for it. I will say I was not home at the time. My husband told me after so who knows how much is true? We lived on a postage sized lot on a very busy road and most of the holes were directed at getting under the fence at a time when there weren’t things such as training collars that were affordable, or other tools that worked. We were at wit’s end so for my husband, it was try that or see the dog killed by a car when he got out since it only took him three minutes and a turned back. The dog was perfectly fine after, we loved him dearly and he never dug another hole. Sometimes, desperation makes you do things you wouldn’t ordinarily consider. That’s the one “bad” thing any of our dogs have ever experienced with us.