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Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad

Quick and easy to make for lunch or even a light dinner, this healthy Tuscan salad puts high protein front and center with chunks of albacore tuna and white beans tossed with arugula and more Mediterranean flavors.

It’s not every day that a salad wakes me from a dead sleep. But this morning, this one did. Not because I was hungry—because I wasn’t—but because I sleepily woke to the words, sentences, and phrases for this blog post forming in my head.

Why I didn’t write it all down at that moment instead of rolling over and going back to sleep is a choice I’m regretting now.

But this salad? There’s absolutely nothing to regret about this salad, nothing at all.

How to Make a Healthy, No-Mayo Tuna Salad

This easy, all-in-one-meal, tuna salad is made with simple ingredients and pantry staples to create a lunch that’s totally fresh and filling.continue to the recipe… about Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad

Ahi Tuna Poke and Mango Salad

A simple three-ingredient dressing tops fresh ahi tuna, mango, and avocado on a bed of spring mix in this flavorful tuna poke salad, perfect for lunch or dinner.

I was reading the latest issue of Food and Wine and an interview with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the actor who plays Mitchell on TV’s Modern Family—the show that in my opinion is the funniest on television. In addition to having impeccable comic timing, apparently JTF is an avid home cook.

“I’m really interested in creating things the way that chefs do…I bought a chef jacket, and when I put it on I get superambitious for some reason. It’s like a Superman cape. I just feel like I can do anything. I can’t, but I feel like I can.”

Don the jacket. Wield the knife. Learn the technique. Then make the recipe your own.

Isn’t that what cooking and creating in the kitchen is all about? It’s about finding inspiration, putting on that cape and believing you can.

This tuna poke salad recipe comes from one of my favorite chefs. His name is Mike and he is the owner of our favorite local sushi bar, Kobe Sushi, here in Salt Lake City. Mike does a great job with sushi and also makes the best ramen in SLC.

But when we go Kobe and I’m trying to be a really good girl, it’s salad that I order. This fresh tuna poke salad.

Mike’s original version calls for seared tuna. But I’m such a fan of tuna sushi and poke that I always ask him to switch it up for me. He’s always amenable. And the inspiration that made me want to put on my own Superman cape and envision myself as the chef at home that Mike is in his restaurant.

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Seared Ahi Tuna with Asian Avocado Salsa

Are you a dinner recipe planner or do you fly by the seat of your desires once your cute striped TOD’s hit the front door of your favorite grocery store?

I wish I was a better grocery shopping planner. But then if I was, I wouldn’t have found these amazing tuna steaks at the good old Costco. And because I would have had a list I was compelled to follow, I probably wouldn’t have deviated from said written word. And then, I wouldn’t have shared these lovely meaty fishes with you. Meaty fishes? Oxymoron. But still.

When we lived in Venice, we didn’t have to buy fish from the good old Costco. We had Santa Monica Seafood which for anyone who has a crush on fish is like a the sparks that fly between Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Lining Playbook. Why oh why did he not win Best Actor. His baby blues deserve their own award, stat.

SM Seafood had a plethora of fish, every single day. Stuff you’ve never heard of. But the tuna was crazy good. But given we were on the pacific coast, we didn’t always have to get our tuna from the store.

Nope, we had Jimmy for that.

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Ahi Tuna Poke and Mango Salad

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