Creamed Tuna with Peas

Trying to observe the no meat on Fridays during Lent I had offered a few weeks back to Kevin a list of choices for dinner --one of them being Creamed Tuna with Peas --he selected it and then I pulled all ingredients only to discover that my skim milk had turned while we were away--so he was stuck with his second choice of leftover frozen Vodka Sauce (see recipe elsewhere on blog). So finally made it this past Friday and he was raving and raving about it! It was a very simple recipe --I did end up thinning it a bit with more milk as I did not serve it immediately and it thickened as it sat. Also as always I altered and used 2 cans of tuna and about 1 cup frozen peas

 4T Butter
4 T flour
1/2- 3/4 C frozen peas, cooked (I used 1 cup)
7 0z can tuna in water , drained ( I used 2 cans)
s/p
2 C milk ( I used more and skim milk)

 In skillet melt butter and whisk in flour and s/p until thickened and smooth about 1-2 minutes
Then add in milk gradually and whisk until thickened.
*note if it is not thick enough for you - you can add 1T cornstarch mixed with 2T milk or water and then add that and heat through*

Lastly add your tuna-breaking it up so no big chunks and cooked peas.

You can serve this over rice/ mashed potatoes or toast -which is what we did. You could always add a can of chicken and make it more chicken ala king like and then change the frozen peas to the peas/carrot mixture.

I know Kevin really liked this as he had a choice of 3 this am and picked this!