• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Sarah's Cucina Bella | Quick and easy recipes from scratch

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • About
  • Recipes
  • Cookbooks
  • Travel
  • Books
    • 2019 Reading List
    • 2018 Book Challenge
    • 2017 Book Challenge
  • Contact
    • Work with Me

Simple Pleasure: The Easy Fresh Tuna Salad

March 28, 2009 by Sarah Walker Caron 5 Comments

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
0shares

That salad was my reward for this week.

See, this was one of those weeks. Surely, you know the ones. It jolted to a  start at a breakneck speed first thing on Monday. After a relaxing weekend running errands and hanging out with my cousins, I realized I had some work due early-ish on Monday. I frantically worked to meet a 12 p.m. deadline on this extra project. Frantically. And that is how the whole week felt – just frantic. I got everything done on time every day, but the pace just didn’t stop. I wrote and wrote and wrote, but I never really felt at rest. I just couldn’t turn off the feeling of rushing.

Then today rolled around … and I do mean rolled. I woke up late, after accidentally hitting the off button on the alarm at 6 a.m. instead of snooze. So, off to another breakneck morning, I went and went and went until just before noon when I raised my head from my agenda and realized … I was pretty much done. A few follow up calls later (actually I took a break and then made the calls), it was mid-afternoon and I was free.

At first, I was like “what now?”

Then I just started writing. Yes, I finished writing, just to write a little more. You do realize I am a writer, right? Actually, it made sense. I channeled my peaceful feeling into a little get-ahead work. I sent out a few pitches to magazines and then drafted an essay that still needs a lot of work. But that first draft? Getting it on paper felt so, so good.

So this salad was the reward for a week well worked. Sometimes it’s the simplest things that are the best rewards . . .

The Easy Fresh Tuna Salad

It’s very simple — a nice piece of wild Alaskan tuna that was rubbed with equal parts kosher salt and fresh pepper browned for about two minutes on each side (I like it medium-rare). I cut the tuna into chunks, toss it on a bed of baby greens (with a few carrots and sunflower seeds) and drizzled it with Sesame Soy dressing from Trader Joe’s. Easy peasy.

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
0shares
Sarah Walker Caron
Sarah Walker Caron

Sarah Walker Caron is a cookbook author, freelance writer and founder of Sarah’s Cucina Bella. She is the author of several cookbooks including The Super Easy 5-Ingredient Cookbook and One-Pot Pasta, both from Rockridge Press. A single mother to two kids in middle school, Sarah loves nightly family dinners, juicy tomatoes plucked fresh from the vine and lazy days on the beach. She also adores reading and traveling.

Filed Under: lunch, Recipes, Salad, Seafood

Previous Post: « French Toasted Apple Grilled Cheese
Next Post: An Extra-Special Oatmeal: Apple-Style »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Cate O'Malley

    March 30, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    It is totally about the simple things – salad looks great!

    Reply
  2. Candelaria Silva

    March 31, 2009 at 3:04 am

    I had two friends over to watch the #1 Ladies Detective Series movies and I made a butternut squash soup and a simple salad with lettuce, english cuke, onions, carrot shaving, tomatoes and italian tuna. That and bread. Simple, delicious, quick instead of my usual more elaborate “company” fare.
    Here’s to simplicity.

    Reply
  3. Stacey Snacks

    April 1, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Sarah,
    I swear, I made a salad with chicken for lunch this week (for next week’s post) with the same Trader Joe’s sesame dressing, and I never use bottled dressing! It was excellent!
    Where can I buy Alaskan wild tuna???? not here in New Jersey for sure.

    We have the same last name……..small world!

    Reply
  4. Sarah Caron

    April 1, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Thanks, Cate!

    Candelaria, so true. That salad and soup sound fantastic.

    Stacey, I found it at our local grocery store (small chain). It was a lucky find — and on sale at the time! So funny on the last name. My husband’s family is from upper New England. Have any relatives up there?

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Seared Tuna with Avocado and Brown Rice Noodles - Sarah's Cucina Bella says:
    December 20, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    […] ago, I discovered the joys of a perfectly seared tuna steak. It’s grilled quickly in a very hot pan until the outside is browned and the inside is a warm […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to our newsletter

Cookbooks by Sarah Walker Caron

Archives

Footer

Copyright Notice | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2019 Sarah's Cucina Bella | Quick and easy recipes from scratch on the Foodie Pro Theme