It's been hot... OK, not August-in-NYC hot, but hot...
I didn't want a salad. I didn't want a hot meal. Then I had a brainstorm...
A sort of vaguely muffuletta-like panino! (For the uninitiated, muffuletta is a delicious, over-stuffed, olive-heavy New Orleans sandwich.)
So I made a simple tuna salad: bag o' tuna, two minced scallions, 1 minced stalk of celery, 6 minced kalamata olives, a touch of salt pepper and red pepper flakes, a squeeze of lemon juice, and 2 T mayo. I hollowed out 2 lengths of split baguette, layered on a bit of mozzarella and some leaves of purple basil, spooned on the tuna, and then I pressed this on a hot grill pan with a heavy weight (my cheapo version of a panini press)!
Really good, really tasty, really fun... and not too much for a hot night.