Tuna Noona Recipe

Dear Readers,

I'm not sure if this dish should be spelled "tuna noona" or "tuna nuna." Both spellings make sense. But I like the way "tuna noona" looks better, so I'll use that spelling. This is a dish that my Mom used to make all the time when I was a kid. It's not fantastic, but I like it. Tuna noona occupies a squishy spot in my heart.

Ingredients:

a few cans of tuna fish
a bag of egg noodles
lemon pepper seasoning
cream of mushroom soup

(I don't know if there are proper ratios for this recipe. I just mix together however much I feel like mixing. It always turns out OK.)

Directions:

1 - Bring a big pot of water to boil. Put the egg noodles in the boiling water and stir them around a few times. After 7 minutes or so, taste one of the noodles to see if it's done. That reminds me, I always liked throwing a spaghetti noodle up against a cabinet to see if it stuck, to see if it was finished cooking. My Mom and Dad used to do that. But you can't really do that with short, twisty egg noodles. Isn't that a shame? Oh yeah, there's a lot of different types of egg noodles to choose from when you make tuna noona. For some reason I like the basic swirly ones more than bow ties or wagon wheels or anything else. I always use the basic swirly ones, unless they're not stocked in the pantry. I think I like the basic swirly ones the best because those are the ones I always use. And I always use them because those are the ones I like the best. But I only like them best because I use them so much. The basic swirly egg noodles are comfortable. It's a silly sentimental attachment, I know. When I'm dead, new people will come along and start making tuna noona with elbow macaroni. Or maybe the new people won't make tuna nuna at all. In my personal life, I like things to remain pretty much same. I like opening my sock drawer and finding my socks there.

2 - When the noodles are done, drain out the water and put the noodles back on the warm burner on the stove. (You have been cooking on a stove this whole time, right? I mean, you're not trying to cook tuna noona over a campfire or anything are you? Ha ha ha.)

3 - Plop in the tuna.

4 - Dump in the cream of mushroom soup. Be absolutely certain that you do step 3 before step 4! Putting in the cream of mushroom soup before the tuna will immediately and irrevocably destroy the entire meal, and all those tuna fish will have died in vain! Ha ha ha. Just kidding. It makes no difference at all.

5 - Sprinkle a whole bunch of lemon pepper seasoning over the whole thing.

6 - Stir it all around. Congratulations. Your tuna has officially reached the state of noona.

7 - Eat it!

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa