A Maryland Favorite
 

No tuna salad is complete without Old Bay seasoning. I usually do:

Chunk Light in Oil (the cheap stuff)
Mayo
Mustard or cocktail sauce
Relish
Old Bay

For the best tuna sandwich in the world, go to Tal's Bagels on Dizengoff in Tel Aviv.

Order tuna on an onion bagel. The ask them to hold the tuna and put a lot of chopped liver on it.

Accompany with a piece of chocolate cake (most of the year) or a chocolate-filled doughnut (in December).

Current favorite:

1/2 sliced baguette
tuna packed in olive oil (now loving the Arroyabe solid-packed Spanish bonito)
slice of red onion
slices of fresh, ripe summer tomato
few arugula leaves

No Mayo necessary
No Mustard necessary
A little olive oil on the bread is fine.

Is arugula how Americans call rocket?

Also, any idea how the Arroyabe bonito compares to that sold by Ortiz?
(I love Spanish packed bonito)

Arugala and rocket are the same. Don't know about Ortiz tuna. I just grab any good Spanish-packed bonito that I find on the supermarket shelves. Arroyabe is the one that I just happen to have on hand right now.

There's a donut season in Tel Aviv?

Very definitely. It is an Israeli tradition to eat doughnuts during Hannuka. These are generally jelly-filled but in a few places (like Tal's) you can get chocolate-filled ones as well.

Hannuka lasts 8 days, but like Christmas has expanded greatly in the past few years. These doughnuts are now available for the entire month of December.

They're both Basque companies based in Vizcaya. I'm sure the Arroyabe brand is delicious. Ortiz website here: http://www.conservasortiz.com/

Have you tried it with 'piminetos del piquillo'?

When I'm in Spain I make I religiously hunt out this kind of bonito (either in oil or in escabeche pickle) and eat it with these pimientos - there are some good canned varieties. Sublime! I got a friend from Murcia to bring along a couple of catering cans of both ingredients and had little open sandwiches of them at my wedding reception. They went in a flash.

Thanks for the information. The pimentos sound like a great combo with the tuna. Will make a point of trying that this week.:)

By the way, has anyone ever tried Japanese Tuna Noril Roll?

You know, triangle shaped rice bowls, inside be the tuna and wrapped by sea weed. Perheps this can be called Asian Tuna Sandwich. I like this alot haha.

Sorry - that's a tuna onigiri

You can find them with fresh tuna inside, but the usual version from convenience stores is 'sea chicken' onigiri. Canned tuna with a little mayonnaise stuffed into a seasoned triangle/ball of cooked japonica rice wrapped in a jacket of toasted nori seeweed.

I often make onigiris, all different kinds, sometimes they're 'sea chicken'.

I have some tuna, I have some umeboshi (pickled plums/apricots) I have some nori - I think I'll make some now. Cheers! I was wondering about what to eat :)

Add diced red onions and celeries. It will give you extra cripy bite. Much refreshing taste of course !!

My gold standard for tuna bliss is the hot tuna subs (grinders) served at Broadway Pizza in New Haven, Connecticut in the 1970s.

I don't know whether Broadway is still there, but for some reason, its sister restaurant, Yorkside Pizza, could not make tuna grinders as well as Broadway could. The cognoscenti, therefore, patronized Broadway, even though Yorkside was larger and had more seating.

Every year hubby and I bring back at least 2 dozen cans of bonito, 2 dozen cans of anchovies, Idiazabal cheese and another dozen of pimientos. Needless to say, we have to be extremely cautious of the baggage weight limits! Unfortuneatly chorizo is not permitted b/c I would pack those as well! I don't even chance it at customs b/c it would break my heart if they took it away from us! Hence my name Baskgal.....we know how to eat!

Sounds ever familiar with those Vietnamese-style French Sandwiches.