I honestly don’t use cookbooks much anymore (well, I have the More With Less and one that was a wedding present from relatives which are great). Most of my recipes come from online (I’ve even taken to saving them to my del.icio.us as a cookbook of sorts). I’ll search my Google Reader for “recipe” or I’ll click through the many recipe sites.
What’s best is that I’m gaining confidence to adapt recipes. 
And with that, I present my adapted recipe for Tuna and Torellini.
Ingredients:
- 2 bags frozen tortellini (or one big bag)
- 2 large cans of tuna
- lots of broccoli (big bag of frozen stuff or a few bunches of fresh)
- 2 cups uncooked brown rice, 4 cups water
- 1 or 2 cans chopped mushrooms (or buy fresh and chop yourself)
- butter
- 1 really big pot
Start the rice cooking in a separate pot for about 45 minutes or until water is gone. Follow the instructions on cooking the tortellini. Cut the broccoli (or use pre-cut). Bring broccoli to a boil and them simmer for about 5 minutes or until done to taste. If mushrooms are fresh, boil along with broccoli and a little salt. If canned, put them in for the last minute or so. Drain broccoli/mushrooms.
Drain tuna.
Mix rice, tortellini, broccoli, mushrooms, and tuna together in the big pot/saucepan. You can time this so everything’s still hot, but if some ingredients have gotten cold, just add a little water and stir on low for 5 minutes.
Serve with a very little melted butter on top if you’re not worried about calories. This recipe serves 2 people with about 7 meals.
My thoughts: To really succeed, this recipe needs a lot of broccoli. Otherwise it’s just too white and plain. It could probably work with some other veggies like green beans, but we love broccoli. Tuna has its faults, but if you eat it as infrequently as we do (probably not for 4 months) it’s not a big deal.
- this is the original recipe, which takes even less time but is more pre-packaged
6 responses so far ↓
1 Moneymonk // Mar 5, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Sounds good
2 Your Sister // Mar 5, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I can personally attest that it’s quite tasty.
3 mrsmicah // Mar 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Thanks, love.
5 Canadian // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:45 am
I love More with Less. It was the first cookbook I was given after leaving home. Being Mennonite I had grown up with it. It is so good for frugal from-scratch cooking!
6 Grandmother Wren // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I love tortellini, but the husband isn’t so crazy about it. Maybe with the tuna (which he does like)?
Thanks for the idea
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