12. Thursday night dinner.

Wheelhouse Seafoods on Hastings has the best seafood we have found anywhere in Vancouver. The seafood is consistently high quality, local, sustainably harvested and fairly priced. The last time I was there, buying mussels, I picked up a can of tuna. Now, I don't usually buy canned tuna. With the abundance of fresh seafood here why pick up something canned? Especially since my mom cans fresh sockeye salmon. But something about the can twigged my memory.

My grandmother used to make something called salamino di tonno. It's a cold dish made with canned tuna or salmon, Parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, lemon, and eggs, rolled to look like a salame. After being boiled and chilled it is sliced and served with lemon and olive oil. Delicious!

After that a memory of my Zia Luisa's vitello con salsa di tonno followed right on its footsteps. The tuna Wheelhouse sells is Estavan solid white B.C. albacore tuna, sustainably (hook & line) caught. Hmmmm, I thought, how could I go wrong?

Tonight Matt and I both worked late, so I put together a quick Provencal type salad. I used the tuna, greens from our garden,fresh little nugget potatoes, olives, capers, tomatoes, string beans and eggs and we enjoyed it with a glass of dry Merridale "Cyser" cider. Yum. This tuna was truly delicious, nothing like the regular stuff you find in big box grocery stores.

Charlie would most definitely approve.