Can take the chopped onions and pecans but NOT the pickles

glenda_al

15 years ago

Craving tuna salad and crackers, so off I went to one of my favorite deli's.

Never had their tuna before, everything there is excellent,

BUT won't get the tuna salad again.

I just don't like sweet pickles, period, in anything, and particularly my tuna salad.

How do you like your tuna salad?

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cbtexas
15 years ago
Same here. I like dill pickles in mine and dill pickles in my potato salad.
wanda_va
15 years ago
With chopped onion, celery, and lots of sweet pickles (and pickle juice)...and just a little mayo. I wouldn't want pecans in it.
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I am doing all my prep work tomorrow...did all the shopping today. Turkey-chop all the vegies,cube the bread and crumble the cornbread, make the compound butter and shove it under the skin, boil up the turkey wings I bought for stock (I like lots and lots of gravy, so I want extra stock to add to the drippings). Rolls-make dough, and refrigerate after first rise. Vegetables-clean & chop the kale (and make the bacon), chunk the parsnips, carrots, beets & turnips to be ready for roasting (and decide at last whether I will add the yams to this mix or roast them in their jackets), mince a load of garlic and herbs(for many things)and boil and mash the potatoes, ready to reheat Thursday. Soup....I've got to make the soup. And I haven't decided what kind of soup to make yet. I'm leaning towards French onion because I've never met anyone who doesn't like it, and though time consuming, it's easy. That or my broth based tomato soup with quinoa and veggies...it's light, easy to make, and a bit spicy to egg on the appetite. Pies-make the pie crusts, chop the pecans, measure out ingredients so they'll be ready to throw together and into the oven. I'm making a Kahlua pecan pie with chocolate chips and a pumpkin. I think I'll bake them Thanksgiving morning, before I put the turkey in...the smell will make me feel festive and drive my husband crazy. :D As for appetizers, I think I'm going to keep it pretty simple. Some cream cheese and olive stuffed celery because I've had it every Thanksgiving of my life, and so has my husband. Gouda & Cheddar with crackers. Spiced nuts and olives. I have some yogurt cheese balls marinated in olive oil and fresh herbs, garlic & red pepper flakes that I will serve with some crostini. I have prepped like this for many years, and it makes Thanksgiving day a much more fun, relaxed celebration rather than a hot, hectic, stress fest. My husband's mother and brother will be a couple to three hours late as usual, but I told them I was serving at 1:00, when I'll actually be serving at around 4:30. Hey, you gotta handle these things...better to be crafty than waste time being annoyed. We have fun, making bets as to when they'll actually show up as we have our sippies and gradually begin not to care when they show up, or if. :D
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Lindsey_CA
15 years ago
I don't like onions in my tuna salad! I don't like raw onions at all, except for sweet Maui onions.
caroline1947
15 years ago
Chow mein noodles,cashews,celery,boiled egg and mayo...makes a great meal!
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
The only thing I don't like in my tuna salad is too much mayo. If I order a tuna sandwich, I always say mustard, no mayo on the roll.
marygailv
15 years ago
I just had a peanut butter and sliced sweet pickle sandwich for lunch.
sue_va
15 years ago
I like tuna and just onions with mayo sometimes.

Mostly though I use mayo, onions, boiled eggs and pickle juice. Don't like the pickles.

I wish I could buy pickle juice without the pickles.

Sue
susan_on
15 years ago
I just like it with celery, onions, salt, pepper and Miracle Whip.
jannie
15 years ago
Just a little mayo, some finely chopped celery. My mom adds sliced olives (pimento-stuffed).
patti43
15 years ago
I never make it, but I think I'd like it with pecans (toasted) and a little celery and a lot of mayo. I like those things in my chicken salad, so why not?

Marygail, that's one of my favorite sandwiches--right up there with bologna, potato chips and mayo! LOL!!
patti43
15 years ago
Oh--I bet chopped green olives would be good in it!
jeaninwa
15 years ago
I make "clean out the fridge" tuna salad.

I put any and all leftover fresh veggies in it.
shredded carrot, minced radish, diced cucumber...
shredded cheese is good too.
teresava
15 years ago
Tuna with mayo, celery, onions and black pepper. Hard Boiled egg is good if I have it. My friend uses cut up grapes too. Sounded gross to me, but actually was quite good.

I like dill pickles ONLY, but I've never tried in tuna before. I used to drink the pickle juice as a kid!

I don't think I'd like the texture of pecans-too crunchy!
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15 years ago
I like the sweet pickles, & onions and sometimes eggs in mine. Celery too.
Jamie_MS
15 years ago
Love sweet pickle relish in mine! Tuna, sweet pickle relish, boiled eggs and mayo! Yum... I may have to make some..
sheilajoyce_gw
15 years ago
Ohhh, Glenda, it has to have Del Monte sweet pickle relish!
jennmonkey
15 years ago
ew, I hate sweet pickles, but cannot have tuna fish without dill pickles. hmmmm, now I really want that for dinner. :)
vicki_lv
15 years ago
I don't do tuna anything. But chicken salad, I love. I like it with mayo, onion, pecans, bread and butter pickles, grapes...you name it...I'll take it. Except boiled eggs.
glenda_al
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15 years ago
Getting old and set in my ways. I don't like pickles whatever in my tuna.
Granlan_TX
15 years ago
The only pickle I do like is sweet, but the pickle business would go bust if they relied on folks like me to buy any.

And I can live without pickles in anything..even tuna salad.

Can take the chopped onions and pecans but NOT the pickles

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