RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!! AND A BEAN/TUNA SALAD

Well, I exaggerated a bit..........it DID finally rain yesterday afternoon.........which was absolutely delightful but still need more......didn't last quite long enough.  I won't complain........it cooled the air down and just to have clouds was wonderful........Bob sat out at the patio table until he was soaked!
Today has been a cooking day.......I guess the chg in temp has given me a spurt of energy. First thing I did was make my fresh peach ice cream.......if you haven't tried it yet......go back in my archives and find it.........I cannot even explain how good it is! Its in the freezer waiting for me. Then I realized that my garden is being taken over by my basil..........so cut it way back and made basil pesto.......also in my archive........soooooo good.  I love it on angle hair pasta.....and nothing else. Maybe for a snack tonite!  Did you know that you can freeze your basil?  So, if you happen to have as much as I do.......make a bunch and freeze it for winter. Then I was trying to make room in my freezer for my peach ice cream and ran across a container of plum juice that I had frozen......left over from when I made my plum jam.  So melted the juice in a big pot, added a bunch of sugar and a little light Karo........making syrup for ice cream and waffles!!
For dinner.......I ran across this recipe........it now will be one of our very favorite salads. So quick and easy and light and healthy.  Dump in a nice glass bowl  a drained can of tuna. Now, this brings me to an important opinion of mine.  Do you know how much more flavor there is in tuna that is packed in oil??? Just drain the oil off........but twice the flavor as tuna packed in water. I can't imagine why that little fad came about.  But after I moved from Mx I found it really hard to find tuna packed in oil...........oh, how the world has changed. Back to the salad........so now you have a can of drained tuna, dump in a can of good white beans, drained. Then chop a fresh cucumber in little tiny pieces and dump that in and the final winning ingredient is a lots of capers!  This is so good!  Just before you serve it squeeze on some fresh lemon juice. You can add some olive oil if you didn't use tuna packed in oil. Bob likes a bit of red wine vinegar on his.  This is great the next day too.