Summer Dinner

Here are the ingredients. Tuna fish made with celery, pickle relish and Hellman's; Miracle Whip; fresh local tomato; iceberg lettuce and bread. Why both mayo and salad dressing, you are probably asking? Because my husband and I are both stubborn when it comes to those items. He grew up on Mayo, I grew up on Miracle Whip - neither one of us has been able to succumb to the other's taste after all these years. People have looked at me funny in the grocery store for years when I have both of them in my cart - years ago I just told them we were "newlyweds". They grinned. Now, I just say the hubby is a stubborn old man set in his ways...conveniently forgetting to mention that I am the same way....hehehe. They still grin.




The next step...toast the bread and coat with Miracle Whip.


Add some lettuce and a dab of Miracle Whip.



Now here is the secret...ADD more lettuce and more Miracle Whip. One MUST have the Miracle Whip between the layers of lettuce. *nodding head*



Add the locally grown tomato and tunafish. That tomato looks delish! (Come on now guys, mouths should be watering). Almost finished.

Cut in half and place on plate for adult presentation.



Here is the child presentation, cut in quarters. Now, a little pretending here, please. See those toothpicks, YOU ALL need to imagine they are the frilly colored kind. Cause everyone knows, kids eat most anything if it looks fun and nice. (Good trick to remember if you are a new parent). Guess that's why I had no frilly toothpicks to be found in my house today. I've been sneaky in the past way too many times with my boys...hehehe.

In the middle of the plate is a dessert bowl filled with Granny Smith Apples sprinkled with cinnamon sugar mixture - 3 parts sugar, 1 part cinnamon. And once again, I know you are all seeing a FRILLY toothpick there, not a plain boring one. Not really sure how tunafish and cinnamon apples will taste together...my thoughts on this are that they WON'T taste good together, but who am I? *shrugging shoulders* But the presentation sure does look good! That, you must agree with.

It is just too hot to cook tonight. I had one of these for dinner tonight and it hit the spot. It was so good I decided to share. This is the second sandwich I made. I will eat that later.

While we are on topic of food, I encourage all to try to buy as many fruits and vegetables from your local farmers as possible, this season, if you are not growing your own. The food just tastes so much better! Tomatoes, corn, radishes, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, cucumbers, berries and the list goes on & on. Go on Do It! You know you want to! You wont be disappointed, this I promise.

On a final note, the only thing better would have been a BLT. But, alas, no bacon in the house tonight. Also, I wished I'd had leaf lettuce straight from a garden. One my favorites from Mom's garden, as a kid. Well, the raw peas straight from the garden were pretty good, too. Mom used to get so mad at us girls. We'd snack on them (the peas) all day, only to discover Mom had planned to have peas with warm milk and butter (those were good, too, don't get me wrong), for dinner that night and there were not enough left in the garden, ooopsies. Sorry about that, Mom, but we just could not resist. Then we'd end of having something gross like spinach. Did we ever learn our lesson? Afraid not, for those peas were just too too tempting and ohhh so good and sweet.

And before anyone says anything... No, I am not getting paid to advertise Miracle Whip by using it in almost every single picture that has been posted on this page....hahahaha.