Glad to know you liked the tuna salad recipe, Linda! I think it's very tasty and so creamy but with not so much mayo. It's still my favorite and I've got cottage cheese on the grocery list. Who knows when I will get to the store? They are calling for snow tomorrow and Saturday, so the store will be a zoo! A zoo I tell you!!! Maybe I'll just rough it and live off what I have on hand for the weekend? Just the thought of a mobbed store after work makes me cringe. Teresa

No one should be eating ANY tuna to excess: Excerpted from the EPA website (URL: http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/advice_index.cfm): "By following these three recommendations for selecting and eating fish or shellfish, women and young children will receive the benefits of eating fish and shellfish and be confident that they have reduced their exposure to the harmful effects of mercury. 1.Do not eat Shark, Swordfish, King Mackerel, or Tilefish because they contain high levels of mercury. 2.Eat up to 12 ounces (2 average meals) a week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury. ◦Five of the most commonly eaten fish that are low in mercury are shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish. ◦Another commonly eaten fish, albacore ("white") tuna has more mercury than canned light tuna. So, when choosing your two meals of fish and shellfish, you may eat up to 6 ounces (one average meal) of albacore tuna per week. ....6. The advice about canned tuna is in the advisory, but what's the advice about tuna steaks? Because tuna steak generally contains higher levels of mercury than canned light tuna, when choosing your two meals of fish and shellfish, you may eat up to 6 ounces (one average meal) of tuna steak per week. 7. What if I eat more than the recommended amount of fish and shellfish in a week? One week's consumption of fish does not change the level of methylmercury in the body much at all. If you eat a lot of fish one week, you can cut back for the next week or two. Just make sure you average the recommended amount per week." From Consumer Rpts (URL: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/january/food/mercury-in-tuna/overview/index.htm) "Results from our tuna tests (canned, all kinds), conducted at an outside lab, underscore the longheld concern for those people. We found: Every sample contained measurable levels of mercury, ranging from 0.018 to 0.774 parts per million. The Food and Drug Administration can take legal action to pull products containing 1 ppm or more from the market. (It never has, according to an FDA spokesman.) The EPA compiles fish advisories when state and local governments have found high contaminant levels in certain locally caught fish. Samples of white tuna had 0.217 to 0.774 ppm of mercury and averaged 0.427 ppm. By eating 2.5 ounces of any of the tested samples, a woman of childbearing age would exceed the daily mercury intake that the EPA considers safe. Samples of light tuna had 0.018 to 0.176 ppm and averaged 0.071 ppm. At that average, a woman of childbearing age eating 2.5 ounces would get less than the EPA's limit, but for about half the tested samples, eating 5 ounces would exceed the limit. In 2006 we scrutinized the results of the FDA's tests in 2002 to 2004 of mercury levels in hundreds of samples of canned tuna. The agency's white-tuna samples averaged 0.353 ppm; light tuna, 0.118 ppm. But we found that as much as 6 percent of the FDA's light-tuna samples had at least as much mercury as the average in white tuna - in some cases more than twice as much. Given the uncertainties about the impact of occasional fetal exposure to such high levels, we urged the FDA to warn consumers about occasional spikes in mercury levels in canned light tuna. More than four years later, the FDA still hasn't issued such a warning. When we asked why, an FDA spokesman indicated that the agency had already taken the spikes into account when formulating its mercury advice. " ******************* ******************* BTW, if you think these guidelines ONLY apply to children or pregnant/nursing women, that's not true. A few years ago there was a report of an NFL football player who was trying to move to a healthier diet of less meat and lower cholesterol. As he didn't really like fish as a rule, he switched to canned tunafish. He was eating a can of tuna almost every day. After a few months he started to have numbness in his limbs (parethesia) and muscle weakness. A doctor finally diagnosed his illness, and got him on a natural detox diet. Extreme? Yes. But mercury poisoning is just as real a threat as lead poisoning. Heavy metals toxicity is something to always be aware of.

Like beesneeds, I like an Asian spin on it. Usually ginger, lemon or lime juice (depending what's ripe on our trees - have one or the other pretty much year round), scallions (or a bit of other onion if I don't have them). Sometimes put some type of heat in it - mustard seed, horseradish or cayenne. Sometimes I put in chopped vegetables (tomato, bell pepper, or whatever else I have on hand that sounds good. Two of our grandchildren are staying with us for a few days* and I made Pizza al Tonno for grandson. Tuna with some lemon zest and juice, fresh rosemary and thyme mixed in. That would be good on a sandwich too. I'm not a mayo fan and find it holds together well enough without mayo. *Both parts of the family have been strictly sheltering in place for weeks so we decided that it was safe enough to have the grandchildren over to give them a change of scene and their parents a break for a bit.

Glad to hear it Jana, that has been on my rotation at least 10 years! We had guests last night and had a summer roll party (each family had their own buffet). I never know what to serve "with" it so I made Lars' sesame green bean and mushroom salad. It was very good. Lars can you estimate quantities? I just kept adjusting the vinegar and sesame oil to taste, and I am not sure what ratio I ended up with so I am afraid I won't be able to repeat it.