Avocado & Tuna Salad

This is a simple dish to make, as there is no cooking involved.

Ingredients:
2 avocados
1-12oz. can tuna, drained
the juice from one or 2 lemons
3 teaspoons soy sauce
2 cloves garlic, minced
5 green onions, sliced, including some of the leafy part
1 jalapeno or serrano chili pepper, finely chopped
4 tablespoons tartar sauce (you can use the low calorie type, or cut the tartar sauce to 2 or 3 tablespoons)
3 tablespoons chopped parsley
paprika for dusting

Cut the avocados in half, remove the pits, scoop out the avocado flesh into a bowl, reserving the cup shaped skins, or shells, whatever name you prefer. Squeeze lemon juice over the avocado, and place a little lemon juice into skins. You need to do this, as avocado, like potato and apple, turns brown relatively quickly from the air (called "oxidation"). Put the drained tuna in with the avocado, and add the soy sauce, garlic, green onions, chili pepper, tartar sauce, and parsley. Mix all the ingredients well and spoon into the avocado skins. Dust each with some paprika. Of course, you can spread the tuna on crackers or make sandwiches with it. 

WORD HISTORY:
Is-This essential word, the third person singular present form of the verb "to be," ^ goes back to Indo European "esti," meaning "is." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "ist," with the same meaning. This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "is," and it has remained as such ever since. I guess you could say, "Is, is what it is." The other West Germanic languages have: German "ist" (some German dialects have lost the "t"), Low German Saxon, Dutch, West Frisian "is." The modern North Germanic languages also have related forms, but they are not as obvious, as rather than the 's,' they have an 'r:' Danish, Swedish and Icelandic "er," and Swedish "är."   

^  Example: "He, she, it is nearby."