"macho Latin lover" food

Many people come to me and they say, "Hey, how can you be such a swinging sex god?" Well I tell you. It's not because I can make love up to one time a night. It's not because I say the things a woman wants to hear like, "Are you through yet?" It's because I know how to read a woman. If she is like a cat, I bring kitty litter. If she is like a dog, we do it on the paper. But I'm also a unique guy too. The kind of guy who likes to have his own special scent. Not to smell like every other guy. I like to have my own, individual odor. That's why I wear tuna fish sandwich. I put a tuna fish sandwich under each arm. Maybe one or two behind the ears. I don't smell like any other guy. And it's economical too because the smell lasts four or five days. —Steve Martin

I heard that bit sometime in the early 80s. You have to hear him do it in the "macho Latin lover" voice he does (couldn't find a video). The thing that was so great about Steve Martin doing standup was that he could do the most ridiculous off the wall stuff and get away with it.
...Now that we have Fat Bread to work with—and a nice PUFA profile, as it uses macadamia and coconut butters—tuna salad is a way more attractive thing to make from time to time.

Fat Bread

So let's delve into the myriad ways to do tuna salad, as well as touch on the prickly issue of mayonnaise (virtually all commercial mayo is made with industrial vegetable/seed oils).
First, though, technically speaking, Fat Bread is not "Paleo," nor is mayonnaise. But who cares? The point is, we're using some of the best ingredients we can in order to get to a place where it's pretty much like the tuna fish sandwich you know and love, in a Paleo-ish context.
I've loved tuna salad ever since I can remember as a kid. In college and when I lived on my own for many years, it was a staple for me (better than PBJ any day). I don't actually have a recipe, per se, but rather, a number of ingredients I choose from, and I make it myriad ways. Here's pretty much everything I may source from to make a batch. When I make it, it's typically a 2-can batch (normal size).
First let's talk tuna. For store bought cans, I usually get the Trader Joe's white albacore packed in water. I believe Whole Foods or similar high end markets have good quality stuff. Otherwise, whatever it is, be it a major brand, it's whole white albacore, packed in water. You could also purchase tuna filets, poach or steam them, and make your own for salad.
The very best canned tuna I've ever had is High Seas Tuna. Simply amazing, but very pricey. These are all line caught tuna in shallow waters, so smaller fish, less mercury accumulation. Standard packing for canned tuna is to cook it once, pack it in water or oil, and cook again to seal the can. High seas packs raw (or smoked) with no added water or oil, and cooks it once in the can. You don't drain the juice in this tuna, it's that damn good. Actually, I don't even make tuna salad with this stuff. Just a bit of sea salt, lemon, drizzle of olive oil and that's it. Or I top a leafy green salad with it, dressed in olive oil and lemon.
Here's the list of ingredients I choose from when making a batch (I never use all of them; this all goes to different varieties).

• Tuna
• Mayonnaise
• Yellow mustard
• Chopped yellow onion (fine to medium, per preference)
• Chopped celery (fine to medium, per preference)
• Chopped dill pickle (fine to medium, per preference)
• Dill pickle juice
• Pickle relish (sweet or dill)
• Dry dill weed
• Garlic powder
• Bacon bits
• Bacon drippings
• Yellow Indian curry powder

Here's the "classic" preparation, the one I use most.
Drain your 2 cans of tuna and squeeze the water out. Place it in your mixing bowl and using a whisk, pound and smash it down in order to break it up into a fine, dry mixture, as in the dried beef for pemmican. This increases the surface area for the flavors to blend.
Add all the ingredients: onion (medium chopped), dill pickle (medium chopped), a dash of the pickle juice, sprinkle of the dill weed, a couple of shakes of garlic powder, bacon bits (a drizzle of drippings if fresh cooked and you have on hand),  dollop of yellow mustard. In terms of quantities, it may be a half onion, 2 dill halves, 2-3 slices of bacon. But experiment.
Begin mixing and add your mayonnaise until you have a nice moist tuna salad.

Tuna Salad

I like to use a rubber spatula to mix in the mayo so I can keep scraping the bowl and mix in all the dry ingredients. Then I like to pat it down firmly and let it cure in the fridge for 4-8 hours. It takes a while for the ingredients to blend. Be sure and mix it up well before eating.
In terms of variation, sometimes the celery, in place of or in addition to the pickle. Celery is great for the crunch, primarily. If I don't have dill pickles, then sweet or dill relish. Careful with the sweet. You don't want it to end up tasting like when some complete moron makes tuna salad from "Miracle Whip," the most disgusting stuff on earth.
My favorite variation is the classic above, but with the addition of about a teaspoon—or to taste—of the curry powder. This can be quite awesome in flavor. You might want to forego the bacon. Bacon is really the prime ingredient because it just gives it an irresistible flavor that really comes through. Doesn't taste like bacon, just barely; wonderful.
For a very quick & dirty: tuna, onion, pickle, garlic powder, yellow mustard. I usually do that when I want it "right now," and I don't wait for it to cure.
The mayo is the big problem because you use quite a lot of it and everything you can get in a jar at the store is pretty much crap. But some crap is worse than others. Before this Fat Bread came along, I'd been reduced to making maybe a couple of batches of tuna per year and so what the hell, I just got the 100% canola oil mayo from Trader Joe's. Canola has less N-6 PUFA than other oils. I'd go through maybe one jar per year and they would usually go past expiration before done. At that level, why bother? YMMV.
A great option is high-oleic sunflower oil. I can't recall the fat profile offhand, but I believe it's similar to olive oil at about 70% monounsaturated. It has a light taste, unlike olive. You can make mayo with olive oil, too, but a lot of people don't like. I've made a couple of batches with the oil from this selective bread variant of sunflower and it was delicious.
A third option is to make it with MCT Oil, which is 100% medium chain triglycerides, i.e., saturated fat. No PUFA. I haven't done this, but here's a recipe, courtesy of reader and commenter Dan Linehan.
MCT Mayonnaise

• Juice of 1/2 Lemon
• 1 egg + 1 egg yolk (pastured is best)
• 1 cup MCT oil
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 5 drops of stevia

Place all ingredients except the oil in a blender or food processor and blend/pulse until well blended. If you're using a blender slowly drizzle in the 1 cup of oil while blending until the mixture has thickened. If using a food processor with a feeding tube with a small drain hole, pour the oil into the tube to allow it to slowly drizzle in
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has collaborated with Lavazza on a calendar and marketing campaign that features scantily clad women lusting for . . . coffee.
Leibovitz's photos present models in various sexy poses in Italian locales, mostly holding demitasse cups filled with espresso. There's a nude woman tossed with noodles (above), a frolic in the Trevi Fountain, and a truly bizarre recreation of Romulus and Remus suckling from a highly caffeinated model/wolf.
.For a place celebrating 15 years of debauchery and decadence, the Saturday night celebration was a little low key. Me and the missus walked to the Peachtree location of the Atlanta bar/local institution to part take in some of the free food offered up. Trays of fried things, including pickles, were up for grabs. And the cake from Publix was pretty damn good. Along with some additional grub that we bought, I picked up an anniversary t-shirt.

After food, we hit the bar's Laughing Skull Lounge and heard the irreverent lounge stylings of King Sized. The lounge cover of a disco song that I forgot was the highlight of the show. But the cruise ship themed keyboard stand had me feeling like I was back at dry dock, in a good way. Again the camera was forgotten.

The Laughing Skull Lounge is home to the Dames Aflame which offers Boozer Doodle, the most interesting figure drawing class I've heard about.
[There's lots of video on YouTube as to the process of making mayonnaise where you have to drizzle.]
...Have you seen yet how to make mayonnaise with an immersion or "stick" blender? I got one a while back and it's so useful for so many things (making protein smoothies, too). But mayonnaise is a cinch, because all ingredients go in from the start. Just be sure to be real patient at the beginning