Grammie Beas Tuna Spinach Loaf Recipes

Steps:

• Rinse the beans and combine with the water in a soup pot. Add the halved onion, the crushed garlic cloves, the bay leaf and the sage leaves. Bring to a gentle boil, add salt to taste, cover and boil very gently for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until the beans are tender (sometimes they take longer, about 2 hours; it depends in part on the age of the beans). Remove from the heat. Set a colander over a bowl and drain the beans. Discard the bay leaf, onion, garlic cloves and sage. Some of the beans will have slipped out of their skins and fallen apart, but most should be intact. The broth can be used for a soup or pasta sauce.
• Meanwhile, prepare the spinach and the dressing. Whisk together the vinegar, lemon juice, minced or puréed garlic, mustard, salt to taste and the olive oil.
• In a large bowl, gently toss together the beans and the tuna. Don't worry if some of the lima beans fall apart. Add the mint, half the chives and half the dressing and toss again. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Toss the spinach with the remaining dressing. Line a platter or wide bowl with the spinach, top with the tuna, and sprinkle the remaining chives over the top. Garnish with red onions and black olives if desired, and serve.

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, over med. heat, cook onion in oil until tender, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat.
• Meanwhile cut lemon in half and refrigerate half. With the half you are using, thinly slice half of that lemon into slices, for garnish, and set the other piece aside until later.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease a 8 1/2x4 1/2" loaf pan.
• Drain tuna. In a lg. bowl, finely flake tuna with a fork.
• Break up bread into crumbs, and add to tuna. Mix well.
• Add onion, lemon juice from the piece left over after slicing, spinach, sour cream, eggs, salt, and pepper. Mix well.
• Spoon tuna mixture into greased pan.
• Bake for 50 mins., or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• When tuna loaf is done, cool in pan, on wire rack, for 10 mins., for easier serving.
• Put tuna loaf on warm platter.
• Garnish with lemon slices.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a large loaf pan.
• Mix tuna, cream of chicken soup, milk, cracker crumbs, bread crumbs, onion, egg, and black pepper until thoroughly combined and spoon the mixture into the prepared bread pan. Smooth top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the loaf comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Place an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-5-inch nonstick loaf pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
• Place the eggs and milk in a large bowl. Add the bread and stir to combine.
• Heat the butter in a large, high-sided skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, 1 teaspoon of the salt and 1/2 teaspoon of the pepper and cook until soft, about 6 minutes. In batches, add the spinach and cook until wilted, about 15 minutes. Drain in a colander. Press gently on top of the spinach to release excess moisture. Set aside to cool slightly. Transfer the spinach mixture to a food processor and blend until smooth. Pour the spinach into the bowl with the bread mixture. Add 3/4 cup of the Parmesan, the remaining salt and pepper and the nutmeg. Stir until smooth.
• Spread half of the mixture on the bottom of the prepared pan. Lay the hard boiled eggs, end-to-end, in a line along the center of the spinach mixture. Add the remaining spinach mixture on top and press gently. Sprinkle the remaining Parmesan on top and bake for 1 hour. Cool 15 minutes, then run a thin metal spatula around the edges of the pan to release the loaf. Invert the loaf onto a cutting board, remove the parchment paper, and cut into slices.

Steps:

• Heat butter in a sauce pan, and saute onion, for about 5 minutes Blend in flour and salt.
• Gradually stir in milk, and cook and stir over med. heat, until thickened.
• Stir in tuna.
• Put potatoes in a greased 10x6x2" casserole, and stir in tuna mixture.
• Cover, and bake in a 350 oven, for 1 hours.
• Uncover, and continue baking for 30 mins., or until potatoes are tender.
• Garnish with parsley.