Tuna under a roof – the first meal I cooked for my husband

by soffiagudrun

This was the first dinner I made for my husband, it was soon after we started dating..  We are talking about almost 20 years ago I put a nice table cloth over my writing desk (I was living with my parents in a small room)  I served the dinner with a  bottle of Lambrusco, not my first choice of a bottle of wine today but….good old days.  I was not the red wine drinker then that I am now.

This was before the time of digital cameras and instagram so I don´t have any photos from this event, yet it truly lives in the memories, like it happened yesterday, almost!

I have a little suitcase full of recipes I´ve been collecting from papers and so on.  I found the recipe I made for my husband in this suitcase the other day and completely forgot how it tasted so I decided to make it again.  It tasted nicer in the memory, but not to bad though.

The list of ingredients is rather basic, not very processed, if you buy a nice can of tuna it not too bad, but with butter and cheese it is not very slimming.  I am sure many kids might like this dish.

This is how it goes:

Tuna under a roof (from Gott úr ofninum, NR 95.  Osta og smjörsalan sf.)

• 1/2 onion, sliced
• 1/4 red pepper, sliced
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 6 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 7 1/2 dl milk
• 200 g tuna, canned
• 3 boiled eggs, cut in 6 pieces each.
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

 The roof:

• 225 g flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 1/4 dl milk
• 75-100 g 26%cheese, shredded
• 2 red peppers, chopped

Heat the oven to 220°c. Melt butter in a pan, add onion and red pepper, cook until soft.  Add flour, then milk.  Stir well until it thickens  Add salt, add tuna, egg and  lemon juice.  Put the mixture in an oven proof dish.

The roof: Mix together flour and baking powder, add salt and pepper.  Put in the butter (with your fingertips). Add milk, kneed well until soft and shiny.  Roll it out in a square.

 Spread the cheese and red pepper on the square.

Roll it up.

Cut it in 2 cm slices.

 

Put the slices over the tuna mixture.

Bake for 30 minutes.

This is how the picture looks like in the recipe brochure, very tasty looking …