My Apologies.. let me explain!
I must apologize to all for my lack of writing. I haven't been documenting our tuna activity in the blog, nor have I been updating the Tuna For Life website. I have received dozens of recipes and I will add them to the site ASAP, but please be patient.
I haven't been writing about tuna because I almost gave up on it. I had, for a moment renounced my love for the fine fish. Why, you ask. Well, let me explain.
It was the first week in June; I made a tuna casserole, for my wife and myself. It was delightful. Penne pasta (mixed with the occasional spiral noodle), Alfredo sauce, red, yellow, and orange peppers. Also, a wonderful crust ( had the perfect consistency, not too tough and not too crumbly... definitely not soggy). To top it all off I used fresh tuna. I minced up a high quality tuna steak.
This was, to be honest, utterly delicious. We had nice red & white wine. One to complement the fish and one to complement the bread (we also had bread).
We were eating, and laughing. The way you are suppose to when you enjoy a fine meal. All of a sudden my wife stopped laughing. All I could hear was my own laughter. I knew something was wrong. I looked up and my wife was on the floor.. she was grabbing at her neck. She was turning very red and possibly blue. Holy shit I thought.. she's choking.. I killed her. My tuna casserole killed my wife. It was like a fight between the two lovers in my life.
Fortunately I am welled trained in CPR and I saved my wife from choking to death. One successful thrust and she was breathing again.
Since then I felt bitter towards tuna. We've eaten plenty of food, but neither of us choked on it before. Why now, why tuna? I thought it was a sign. I have been suffering major emotional turmoil for the past 3 weeks.
A few days ago my wife said we needed to talk. So we did. She told me that chocking could still occur even if we don't eat tuna. That's the risk of eating food. We love Tuna. It's worth the risk isn't it? She said, we were laughing; the wine was dry, the cheese sticky, and the tuna delicious.. all factors which could have played part in her chocking.
We talked about for the past few nights. I also spoke about it to the rest of the TFL crew (they have been very supportive) and the decision is final = I am back on the tuna.
To celebrate my wife and I went out for our favorite Spicy Tuna Stew.
Posted by tunaforlife
at 8:48 PM KDT
Updated: Wednesday, 30 June 2004 1:57 AM KDT