Summer Lunch Week: Tuna White Bean Salad

I was evil in an ear­lier life. (If you have known me to be evil in this life, I’m sorry) It’s the only expla­na­tion for the fact that two weeks after return­ing from hol­i­day to find our air con­di­tioner non-functioning, that we still don’t have a/c. Lots of guys com­ing over to look at the unit, tak­ing it apart and mak­ing a mess of the place, a lot of head shak­ing and head scratch­ing, but fix­ing the damn thing? Not so much. And of course it all went down on the hottest days Toronto has seen in about a mil­lion years. I counted no fewer than five a/c repair vans on our street one day last week. I know these are first world prob­lems in the extreme but it was HOT last week. So hot. I couldn’t form another thought other than — My God, it’s so hot — all of last week. This woman became my best friend.

This week is bet­ter (and cooler) and I am allow­ing myself to hope that the fourth main­te­nance appoint­ment I’ve got booked for tomor­row will be the one to save us. Please send any spare good juju you’ve got my way. Mean­while I’m in need of meals that do not require the stove, the oven, or any heat source at all. This salad is per­fect for lunch or din­ner. It’s so sim­ple to make yet cre­ates a really sat­is­fy­ing salad. Esme and Julian are both start­ing to really come around to salad and this is full of many of their favourite ingre­di­ents. I don’t know how much we’ll like to eat this salad in the Arc­tic, where we’ll be mov­ing if our air con­di­tioner does not get fixed tomor­row, but I’ll keep you posted.

Photo by Maya Visnyei