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Cheap and healthy tuna and couscous
We were up in Belfast for the weekend which always means over-indulgence and I then flew to Birmingham for a conference and ate very boring and fatty food – what a waste! This was a much needed healthy...
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Italian tuna balls (hee hee)
Well this was a pleasant surprise! We only made it cause it was super cheap and low fat but we will definitely be doing it again. This costs less than €2 a head and it is gorgeous! We don’t buy tomato...
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Here’s what to do with your pesto
Yum yum yum yum! Throw this together after work and you won’t be disappointed. Try and get salad potatoes – we could only find floury new potatoes in the village and they sort of went to mush. A great...
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A Jono & Jules Original!
It’s amazing what you can throw together when rummaging through the cupboard. We always make huge batches of tomato sauce and freeze it as you can use it in so many things. We made pizza on Tuesday...
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Seared Tuna with a Green Olive Salsa Verde
The leftover salsa verde will keep in the fridge and is lovely with meat, fish or bruschetta. To serve 4: 4 tuna steaks olive oil sea salt flakes For the salsa verde 10g each of flat-leaf parsley...
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Tuna tataki noodles
Tataki is a Japanese way of preparing fish which involves searing it quickly, slicing thinly and serving with ginger that has been pounded into a paste. This takes just 15 minutes to make and is...
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Little Stuffed Eggs
These little stuffed quail’s eggs are very cute but also very time consuming. It also helps if you have little fingers! Uoava di Quaglie Ripiene – to serve 4 as an antipasti 12 quail’s eggs 80g good...
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Paprika- and Oregano-Marinated Fish with Cherry Tomato Salsa
Tuna steaks are definitely at their best when seared on a hot barbecue. The marinade would also work well with other firm fish fillets such as swordfish or kingfish. Wine suggestion: we think a light...
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Linguine with Yellowfin Tuna
A simple but delicious dish from a cool restaurant called Obicà that we found on our last trip to Florence. They insist that it’s best made with fresh tuna (and they’re probably right) but we made it...
View ArticleCheesy Tuna Pesto Pasta
Oh this is soooo easy and has become a regular feature in our house at lunchtime on Saturdays. Also adored by the resident 3 year old which is always a bonus. Maybe save the wine for after 7pm 😉 Cheesy...
View ArticleSicilian Tuna Pasta
We loved this easy pasta dish that we cooked when camping underneath Château de Beynac, right beside the banks of the Dordogne, with hot air balloons floating by. Such happy memories. Wine Suggestion:...
View ArticleLinguine with Tuna
Please buy fancy tins or jars of tuna in olive oil for this. We often go for Ortiz but recently we’ve been buying Shines Wild Irish Tuna – who knew we had such fabulous fish in Irish waters. Italians...
View ArticleTuna Cooked in Lentils
This really is the perfect dish by Joe Trivelli. Chunky pieces of tuna, earthy lentils and sweet tomatoes. We really recommend this one. Wine Suggestion: Chill down a Grignolino, a red from Piedmont,...
View ArticleVitello Tonnato
Well it’s the last day of summer on this side of the world but we’re still hanging on for a while longer. Vitello tonnato is a true holiday dish and one we can never resist when we see it on a menu –...
View ArticleSicilian Couscous Salad
This couscous salad with fennel and tuna is perfect for lunch at the weekend. It’s very simple but the flavours all come together brilliantly. Do buy top quality tuna in oil – we used our local Shines...
View ArticleTuna Pasta Bake
Who doesn’t love tuna pasta bake. We’re a bit sceptical about one pot cooking … what’s the big deal with using more pots? Anyhow, the one pot works in this case as the pasta absorbs all the flavours....
View ArticleConchiglie with Tuna, Egg & Capers
This recipe is from Rachel Roddy’s fabulous book, An A-Z of pasta. She introduces this one by asking if you are familar with vitello tonnato, which happens to be one of Jules’ favourite dishes, so we...
View ArticleBaked Orzo Puttanesca
Do buy good quality tuna for this, packed in olive oil. We like Ortiz which is widely available and excellent quality. We’d also highly recommend Shines’ Wild Irish Tuna, one of our local companies...
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