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White Bean and Tuna Salad
Behind the Scenes at Simply Recipes

There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

White Bean and Tuna Salad

Some items that you will almost always find well stocked in our pantry are canned beans (white beans, garbanzo, kidney) and canned tuna packed in olive oil. We also keep well supplied with onions, including at least one red onion. So when we are looking for a super-easy-I'm-hungry-now-and-I-don't-want-to-spend-time-cooking meal we're prepared. This combination, canned tuna with white beans and onions is classic, and so easy. It helps to have a high quality canned tuna, packed in olive oil. If you have water-packed tuna it will still work, but you'll need to add a lot of olive oil to help it come together. An herb or bitter of some sort is a bright addition too. Mint, parsley, arugula are all growing around our garden at some point, and depending on the season we gather what we can find. You could also use cilantro, tarragon, or rosemary. A little Tabasco or chili pepper will give the salad a bit of zing. Try substituting the white beans with garbanzo beans. This salad is designed for improvisation.

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Behind the Scenes at Simply Recipes

Times, they are a changin'. If you are a regular follower of Simply Recipes, you may have noticed that we've been posting a bit more than usual. I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know what is happening behind the scenes here, and to give you a little more back-story about the site.

From lemons to lemonade

First the back story. Around 9 years ago I got sick. I had been helping to run an Internet start-up in San Francisco that went bust. That was the first dot-com crash, back in 2001. I developed a flu that just wouldn't go away. Around the same time I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue, my dear friend and roommate was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Elisabeth lost her battle with cancer, as well as two other close friends. I eventually moved home with my parents in Carmichael, still sick (2 years later), unable to work, and overcome with grief. Well, even if you're sick, you still have to eat. I figured if the powers that be determined that I was going to stay at home for a while, I might as well learn how to cook. And that, my friends, is how Simply Recipes got started. A day does not go by that I'm not deeply appreciative of my parents, for being there, for taking me in, for encouraging me, for feeding me, for teaching me how to cook, for everything.

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