Tuna Casserole - Easy Enough for Children of All Ages

I don't know if the part of the brain that understands math also is in charge of the sense of direction, but I am sadly lacking in both areas, so
when I was in high school, I took just enough math to be accepted into Westhampton and immediately stopped taking it so my grade point average would be high enough for me to be accepted. Two years of Algebra and one year of Plane Geometry. Plane Geometry made sense to me for reasons I don’t understand, but only the extra tutoring Mr. Cashwell gave struggling students on Tuesday afternoons got me through Algebra 2. Because I did well in most of my other classes, my plan worked.

When I quit taking math, I had time in my schedule to take something else, so I took Home Ec from Mrs. Polly Slate. Three recipes from that class are still in my recipe box – tuna casserole, pork chop casserole and kolachky. The tuna casserole definitely belongs in the easy enough for children to make category, but I’ll post the others down the road.

Tuna casseroles of various kinds were standard fare for the inexperienced and short of cash cook back in our early years, but because of the mercury and other bad stuff in the water, we are now advised to limit use of it and some other big fish, so you might want to Google for health recommendations.

I was amused when looking at this recipe to see that it called for a nickel bag of potato chips. That was back in the days when a nickel was still a nickel and occasionally had a buffalo on it.

Recipe

1 large can water packed light tuna
1 can cream of mushroom soup
¼ cup sour cream
Small can baby peas, drained (or frozen baby peas, thawed)
Pepper
Single serving regular potato chips

Mix everything except chips and pour into sprayed casserole dish. Open the bag of chips enough so it won’t pop and squeeze it to make crumbs. Sprinkle chips evenly over casserole. Bake at 350 degrees until bubbly and brown around the edges, about 20 minutes. The low fat versions of everything work just fine. You could substitute buttery cracker crumbs for the chips, but I think the potato chips are better.

Note

If you like, you could add ¼ cup milk and a cup of leftover rice or noodles and substitute leftover corn for peas.