Gracie’s Life Experiment

The weather has suddenly turned lovely – really warm and sunny – AND IT’S WINTER here!! So after being uninspired for lunch and needing to go food shopping this afternoon I foraged about in the cupboard and this is one of my favourite meals (that I’d forgotten about). My tuna cous cous salad – in fact I used to have it or something similar everyday for lunch when I was at work. This recipe makes enough for one hungry mummy!!

1/2 tin of tuna
2 leaves of iceburg lettuce (nice and crunchy)
1 medium tomato
3 tablespoons of dried cous cous
3 small chunks of feta (approx. 1cm3 for each chunk)
1 piece of sundried tomato
1 tsp of mayo
1 tsp of french dressing (could just use some olive oil with a bit of lemon juice also)
Sprinkling of dried/fried onions/shallots

First I boil the kettle and pour out the cous cous into the bowl I’m eating from (less washing up) and I pour the hot water onto the cous cous until it is covered with water (I usually fill up to about 5mm above the level of cous cous, but convention says to use equal volumes of cous cous and water). I put a plate ontop of the bowl (and then use the plate to cut the veggies on – again can’t be arsed to wash up more than I need). I chop up the tomato into small chunks and shred the lettuce. After that the cous cous is usually done so I remove the plate and throw 1/2 the tin of tuna in (strain the liquid out of the tin first though) and I cmash up the feta into it too. I like to put in a tiny amount of sundried tomato which I decimate into tiny pieces. Put the mayo and dressing in and mix the lot. Finally I put the fresh tomato and the shredded lettuce into the bowl and give it a good stir. I finish it off with a sprinkling of fried onions (there’s something very nice about the fried onion – feta combination). That’s it folks – so simple and you can make it within the same time it takes to make a cuppa tea.