Thursday, May 4, 2023

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Embossed and Tuna Pasta Salad

For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date I am showing my 'Embossed' piece. It is coaster sized flowers on tin foil.
First I made a design
Then I followed the instructions on a simple video. I coloured the flowers with permanent markers. 
Here is the simple instruction video, I hope the link works for you.









 I made this delicious tuna pasta salad this past Good Friday.  We try not to eat meat on that day, and do not always remember.  I am sharing this for the dinner date.

2 1/2 c elbow macaroni
2 cans tuna drained
3/4 c light mayo
1/2 c relish
2 celery stalks chopped
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
2 tbs lemon juice
1 c frozen peas thawed (microwave 2 mins in a tbs water)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp dried oregano

dressing:
mayo, relish, spices, oregano, lemon juice

cook pasta in salted water for about 10 mins and drain
Mix dressing with tuna, mayonnaise, celery, peas, cooked pasta

The good thing is this dish is eaten cold pretty much!  No need to heat up!

34 comments:

  1. Beautiful art work and a very delicious looking tuna pasta salad.

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  2. The video link indicated I had to create a g-mail account if I want to watch it.

    The salad looks good. If only I wasn't allergic to mayo.

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    1. I corrected the video link Elizabeth hope it works now thanks

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  3. Tuna pasta sounds yummy, and I love those embossed flowers. Thanks for the video.

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  4. The embossed flowers look so exquisite!

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  5. Such a great art piece! Love the recipe too!

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  6. So glad you posted this recipe! Lovely art tooπŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—

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  7. Awesome Thursday post! Thanks so much for this pasta recipe too!

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  8. wow loved your art
    pasta looks delicious

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  9. love tuna ... yummy...
    Beautiful artwork

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  10. I like this recipe. I make mine with 1 can cream of chicken soup and 1 can of cream of celery soup plus 1 can of skim milk. 1 bag of thawed mixed vegetables. Pepper and Italian seasoning. Tuna. Pasta. Sprinkle with Panko crumbs. Bake 30 min 350F. Can make this with canned chicken too. So versatile.

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  11. Lovely food and flowers! Hugs, Valerie

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  12. How unique the embossed foil flowers. My son is a graphic artist, and in his work they do a lot of embossing with metal. He had created many logo's for people, and they do a lot of advertising for Hollywood, since they use a lot of embossed invitations to gala events.

    The Tuna salad looks delicious. I have made Tuna Casserole with similar ingredients, but the cold salad sounds really good for summer.

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  13. Lovely embossed flowers. Tuna salad looks delicious

    MuchπŸ’–love

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  14. Beautiful artwork and yummy recipe. Thanks for sharing!

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  15. You are so talented, Christine, in more ways than one.
    Blessings!

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  16. Your embossed flowers are beautiful!

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  17. interesting! I did take a look at the video. Never thought of creating something that way. Can be a useful tool. :)

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  18. Thanks for the foil art pieces. I can't wait to try that and to try the tuna pasta salad.

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  19. I like your art work and the tuna dish looks good.

    All the best Jan

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  20. Lovely art work and enticing tuna pasta salad!

    Hugs and blessings, Christine

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  21. Bellas flores. Gracias por la receta.

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  22. embossed would of gotten me stuck.
    Coffee is on, and stay safe.

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  23. Those are so pretty! That would make a perfect design for earrings too. Recipe looks delicious!

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  24. Lovely earrings ~ recipe sounds yummy ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  25. Your aluminum foil art design reminds me of my high school art class days. One assignment we did was to etch a design in a sheet of tin. The art teacher provided all the supplies. I can't remember what we used to etch with, though. It was fun, though. I like doing different stuff like that. It might have been the same year, we dabbled with wood carving. Your recipe sounds good and looks yummy. I like tuna but it doesn't do well on my tummy. Salmon does the same thing but interestingly the cod and haddock we had in Maine last fall didn't seem to be a problem. I'm going to do a screen grab of your recipe just in case I feel adventurous. :)

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  26. The tuna pasta looks delicious and fantastic embossing, Christine!

    -Soma

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  27. Pretty flowers. Thanks for link, it did work.

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  28. Beautiful art work and the salad looks delicious
    Julia x
    https://www.thevelvetrunway.com/

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  29. Wow, the link did work and the video, once again, makes it look easy, but I found out after trying various forms of embossing, that it is anything but easy. Yours turned out quite nice, Christine, I applaud you as I struggled with this prompt. I love tuna salad and pasta salad ... never thought about combining them, but I am for sure going to give this a try. Thank you :)

    Andrea @ From the Sol

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  30. The embossed flowers are delightful!!
    I love tuna in anything; this looks delicious.

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  31. wow nice embossed flowers. Looks great.

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  32. Your embossed flowers are so lovely Christine, very creative!

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