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House Girlfriend Cooking Recipe Tuna Salad Freedom Jonathan Franzen 4 weeks ago
If you ever hear me complaining about my life as a House Girlfriend, remind me that this is how I get to spend my afternoons: eating a delicious, self-made lunch while reading a delicious book I can only dream of having written.  TUNA SALAD AVOCADO CUPS INGREDIENTS: 1 ripe avocado 1 can solid white Albacore Tuna, in Olive Oil 1 orange bell pepper, diced 1 tablespoon mayonnaise, I prefer Hellman’s/Best Foods 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard  1/4 a fresh lemon salt and black pepper to taste DIRECTIONS:  Refrigerate your avocado the morning you plan to make these, to be sure it is firm and easy to cut.  Drain the tuna and mix all the ingredients together, season to your liking> Being that it’s tuna and canned, it tends to be a little salty already, so don’t over do it with the salt as I do with the pepper: I like to practically choke on black pepper, but that’s not everyone’s taste, though it should be. Cut you avocado in half, long-ways, using a sharp knife. Remove the pit. Sprinkle each half with the juice of your lemon, to keep it from browning and to add a hint of acid. Scoop your tuna into the hole left by the pit. Unless you find a massive avocado, it’s likely to spill over, but, I say, the more the merrier for this delicious snack.  I generally like to garnish this with grape tomatoes or fresh parsley, neither of which I had today.  Will keep in the fridge for several hours- this is a favorite of The Boyfriend, so I always save him a half for tea-time. 

If you ever hear me complaining about my life as a House Girlfriend, remind me that this is how I get to spend my afternoons: eating a delicious, self-made lunch while reading a delicious book I can only dream of having written. 

TUNA SALAD AVOCADO CUPS

INGREDIENTS:

1 ripe avocado

1 can solid white Albacore Tuna, in Olive Oil

1 orange bell pepper, diced

1 tablespoon mayonnaise, I prefer Hellman’s/Best Foods

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 

1/4 a fresh lemon

salt and black pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS: 

Refrigerate your avocado the morning you plan to make these, to be sure it is firm and easy to cut. 

Drain the tuna and mix all the ingredients together, season to your liking> Being that it’s tuna and canned, it tends to be a little salty already, so don’t over do it with the salt as I do with the pepper: I like to practically choke on black pepper, but that’s not everyone’s taste, though it should be.

Cut you avocado in half, long-ways, using a sharp knife. Remove the pit. Sprinkle each half with the juice of your lemon, to keep it from browning and to add a hint of acid.

Scoop your tuna into the hole left by the pit. Unless you find a massive avocado, it’s likely to spill over, but, I say, the more the merrier for this delicious snack. 

I generally like to garnish this with grape tomatoes or fresh parsley, neither of which I had today. 

Will keep in the fridge for several hours- this is a favorite of The Boyfriend, so I always save him a half for tea-time. 

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About the House Girlfriend

A MODERN GIRL'S (ATTEMPTED) GUIDE TO HOUSEKEEPING...

That's what I need. A guide. I used to have a job (a career even!) but more often than not, I now find myself in pajamas well past the acceptable time to be found in pajamas, pondering ice cream for breakfast and which version of Pride and Prejudice to waste my afternoon on. I've worked almost every day since I was sixteen... until now. And I don't quite know what to do with myself.

I purposely never learned to clean because I never wanted to have to. I purposely never learned to cook because the idea of winning over a man through his stomach seemed archaic and insulting. I purposely never learned to garden because I’d hate to ruin my manicure- if I ever actually got one.

But here I am. Nothing to do but pull my weight around our apartment, i.e. cook, clean, and generally keep house for The Boyfriend, who lovingly doesn't seem to mind if I never go back to work again.

And when I can get out of my pajamas at a reasonable hour, I find I don't hate it, this housekeeping thing. In fact, I might love it, being a House Girlfriend- and maybe I'll write that guide myself. If only I could get up the courage to scrub out the bathtub...