For 2025 pot luck season, I started working with a recipe for Tuna Mousse. Essentially, the recipe is "take a nice tuna salad, and then put it in the food processor with some gelatin". I had hoped to put it into a one-time-use mold that was shaped like a moose, but alas, my 3D print failed, and I was out of time to recover. My tuna salad has tuna, mayonnaise, celery, capers, onions, relish, and pepper. Nothing too outlandish.
So I thought for a bit, and decided: it will be a pie.
I took some stale doritos, powdered them in the blender, and then added butter to make a TACO BELL DORITOS LOCOS pie crust.
Then I poured the processed tuna salad in (we added red food coloring, because it was kind of a sickly gray, and Luca insisted).
We let it set up in the fridge overnight.
I had a slice at the potluck, and so did a few other people. You wouldn't believe how much of a good tuna salad is in the texture. Anyway, I won't be making this one again, it was fine, and the dorito crust did add to it overall, but still, the lack of texture was a deal-breaker.
The only time I felt bad was when this woman took a big old slice, apparently thinking it was strawberry rhubarb or something, and took a great big bite, and got a horrible "do not want" look. I didn't feel bad enough to warn her, but I did feel bad.
