Grammie Beas Tuna Spinach Loaf Recipes

GRAMMIE BEA'S TUNA SPINACH LOAF

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, over med. heat, cook onion in oil until tender, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat.
• Meanwhile cut lemon in half and refrigerate half. With the half you are using, thinly slice half of that lemon into slices, for garnish, and set the other piece aside until later.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease a 8 1/2x4 1/2" loaf pan.
• Drain tuna. In a lg. bowl, finely flake tuna with a fork.
• Break up bread into crumbs, and add to tuna. Mix well.
• Add onion, lemon juice from the piece left over after slicing, spinach, sour cream, eggs, salt, and pepper. Mix well.
• Spoon tuna mixture into greased pan.
• Bake for 50 mins., or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• When tuna loaf is done, cool in pan, on wire rack, for 10 mins., for easier serving.
• Put tuna loaf on warm platter.
• Garnish with lemon slices.

WHITE BEAN TUNA SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, add the tuna, reserving the olive oil in a separate small bowl. Break tuna into bite-size pieces with a large fork. Add the beans and capers. Into the bowl of olive oil, add the red wine vinegar. You should have 1 part vinegar to 2 parts oil - add more extra-virgin olive oil if necessary. Season with salt and pepper. Pour dressing on the tuna, bean and caper mixture and allow the flavors to infuse while slicing the vegetables. Add the onion and tomatoes to tuna mixture and toss gently.
• Place the arugula on large decorative platter and top with tuna mixture. Tear fresh basil leaves over the top and serve immediately.

GRAMMIE BEA'S TOMATO SOUP CAKE

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Beat 2 eggs and add to mixture, mixing well.
• Add walnuts and raisins, and mix in well.
• Mix flour, baking soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon together.
• Mix in with creamed sugar mixture, and add tomato soup. Mix well.
• Bake in a greased and flour dusted loaf pan, at 350, for 25 minutes.
• Note: *Make sure you soak the raisins in warm water for at least 1/2 hours before adding them to the other ingredients. Take the raisins out of the water, and flour them, just before mixing into cake mix.

GRAMMIE BEA'S SCALLOPED POTATO AND TUNA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Heat butter in a sauce pan, and saute onion, for about 5 minutes Blend in flour and salt.
• Gradually stir in milk, and cook and stir over med. heat, until thickened.
• Stir in tuna.
• Put potatoes in a greased 10x6x2" casserole, and stir in tuna mixture.
• Cover, and bake in a 350 oven, for 1 hours.
• Uncover, and continue baking for 30 mins., or until potatoes are tender.
• Garnish with parsley.

TUNA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a large loaf pan.
• Mix tuna, cream of chicken soup, milk, cracker crumbs, bread crumbs, onion, egg, and black pepper until thoroughly combined and spoon the mixture into the prepared bread pan. Smooth top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the loaf comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

TUNA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, stir together tuna, breadcrumbs, egg, bell pepper, and onion. Then add milk, Worcestershire sauce and Tobasco, and salt and pepper, mixing with your hands.
• Pack ingredients into a large, greased loaf pan.
• Bake about 45-50 minutes, until top is golden brown and center is thoroughly cooked. Allow to cool about 10 minutes before slicing and serving. Enjoy!

CANNED TUNA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Prepare a glass loaf pan with cooking spray.
• Beat eggs, mayonnaise, horseradish, parsley, paprika, cayenne pepper, and black pepper together in a large bowl until smooth. Add tuna in water, bread crumbs, and onion; mix until evenly moistened. Pack tuna mixture into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until hot and fully cooked in the center, about 30 minutes.

LARGE WHITE BEAN, TUNA AND SPINACH SALAD

Steps:

• Rinse the beans and combine with the water in a soup pot. Add the halved onion, the crushed garlic cloves, the bay leaf and the sage leaves. Bring to a gentle boil, add salt to taste, cover and boil very gently for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until the beans are tender (sometimes they take longer, about 2 hours; it depends in part on the age of the beans). Remove from the heat. Set a colander over a bowl and drain the beans. Discard the bay leaf, onion, garlic cloves and sage. Some of the beans will have slipped out of their skins and fallen apart, but most should be intact. The broth can be used for a soup or pasta sauce.
• Meanwhile, prepare the spinach and the dressing. Whisk together the vinegar, lemon juice, minced or puréed garlic, mustard, salt to taste and the olive oil.
• In a large bowl, gently toss together the beans and the tuna. Don't worry if some of the lima beans fall apart. Add the mint, half the chives and half the dressing and toss again. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Toss the spinach with the remaining dressing. Line a platter or wide bowl with the spinach, top with the tuna, and sprinkle the remaining chives over the top. Garnish with red onions and black olives if desired, and serve.

MAKEOVER SPINACH TUNA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Cook noodles according to package directions. , Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise and lemon juice; set aside., In a large saucepan, melt butter. Stir in flour until blended. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat; stir in 1/3 cup cheese, stirring until melted. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream mixture. Add spinach, stuffing mix, bread crumbs and tuna., Drain noodles and place in a 13x9-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Top with tuna mixture; sprinkle with remaining cheese. , Cover and bake 35 minutes. Uncover; bake 5-10 minutes longer or until lightly browned and heated through.

GRILLED TUNA WITH SPINACH LINGUINE

Steps:

• Wash and dry the tuna.
• Roughly chop the herbs on their branches and mix with the oil, salt and pepper.
• Lay the tuna in a shallow dish and pour the oil mixture over the fish. Lay a piece of plastic wrap directly on the fish. Turn after an hour, cover and continue to marinate for at least another hour.
• To serve, have charcoal very hot. Drain the tuna of excess oil and lay the tuna on the grill, allowing four minutes on each side for rare.