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

Using fresh fish is the key, IMHO, even though the whole recipe looks good. Fresh fish has a nicer texture and flavor than canned. I'm starting to salivate as I type this. Kinds of fish other than tuna can be used too. Also, leftover cooked fish, poached or otherwise can often be used to make a very good salad. Keep this in mind next time you serve fish. Jim

Nanny wrote: "So, when Natal, or I, or someone else added those cranberries or nuts to their recipes, it was not to disobey your request, but to show others how their recipes were prepared. It's very easy to omit ingredients from any recipe, which is what I presume these women expect you to do." Thank you for replying, I wasn't going to come back into the topic but it's been bothering me all day because all I did was jokingly say "Ick" to a food I don't like. What I notice here is that others have made rude comments about Miracle Whip, a food *I* use, but were they called out on their "rudeness" to me? No. Why is it ALWAYS me, especially when I go out of my way to let you all know I'm laughing, just as I would if you were sitting before me. I'm not laughig AT you, I'm laughing at an ingredient in food! I have to disagree with you about people adding the ingredients that I specifically asked NOT to be added. Just as everyone goes into other's topics and apologizes for "hijacking" it, this was MY topic, and MY question. I'm not saying this to be mean, but I was the one who wanted some recipes which do not use fruits and nuts. Unless it was a fruit salad. :) So yes, when I get a reply I expect it to be for ME, and others are more than welcome to chime in. It's no different than if you did a topic on the other forum asking for painting advice on any color EXCEPT black, and everyone replied showing you their black rooms. lol. So I don't see how it was wrong for me to RME when I got the recipes with fruits and nuts. When we do a topic asking a specific question, should others reply for the sake of themselves, or to answer the OP's question? Lastly, I cannot believe how the word "Ick" offended others when no offense was meant at ALL. You all don't know me, but I'm known as the "Peace maker". Sure, I get my feelings hurt just like everyone else does, and I hate arguments especially if they're so trivial as me laughing and saying "Ick." I find it extremely rude to correct people on something so minor especially when it's obvious there was no intent on insulting anyone. I said it good heartedly. Just as I said the word "Yankee." Others have been calling themselves Yankees on this board all the time, but when I say it, it's considered offensive? I just get the feeling that some people here, but not all and just a minority, love to nitpick and bicker with others ad nauseum. We were having a fun and fascinating conversation about sandwiches and Miracle Whip vs. Mayonaise, until... I even found a place that sells the Mayo the "southerners" here like that I can order it online. Now, as far as being southern, I think I said this before. Both of my parents were born and raised in southern Virginia, and moved here to Oklahoma after they married. My father is a graduate of VA. Tech. Every single person in my family except my brother and myself are from Virginia. My uncle had a tobacco farm. I grew up with parents dipping cornbread in Buttermilk. ICK!!!! lol. See? I'm laughing about it, I still laugh at it to my mom when she does it! It's not a derogatory term because it's FOOD. But if you were to serve it to me, I'd be polite and eat it and if I didn't like it, you'd never know. Talking about food tastes is one thing and to turn it into nasty, nasty personal insults is another. Which I know you didn't do. I do however take offense because you are insinuating I am not "sophisticated" because I don't like fruit and nuts in my sandwiches. What? You have no idea what I eat. BTW, if anyone even cares at this point, I decided to make some Vegetable Bars and Tuna Salad finger sandwiches. :)

Janie, it might not meet up to everyone's expectations, but I love it. Finished rest of it off COLD, today. I love this stuff. I used to make it in a loaf pan, but now I bake it in a pyrex dish and scoop it up with spoon. Used to make in a loaf pan, but somehow over the years, it doesn't come out as a loaf. So as you request, here, tis 1 cup cracker crumbs i USED, TODAY, CRACKED PEPPER CRACKERS 1 small can tuna, drained Good tuna 1 cream of mushroom soup 2 eggs Combine the above, bakc in oven 350 34-40 minutes. Top with cheese sauce, which I don't do for myself, cause I just love it AS IS. Just my kind of thing that I love :o) I had sweet peas and sliced tomatoes with it, then finished it off COLD. :O) Make a cheese sauce to serve on top.