there's a story behind this, yes, but first a contest:

[truelove]

Let us pretend that you have these and only these ingredients on hand:

• herbal fruit tea
  
• canned tuna
  
• asparagus
  
• potatoes
  
• onions
  
• pineapple
  
  
• garlic
  
• sage
  
• italian seasoning
  
• paprika
  
• sugar
  
• salt
  
• pepper

What do you make with them?

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Slice some potatoes very thin and put tuna and paprika and a bit of salt and pepper on top. Bake. Pray.

Dice a sufficient quantity of potatoes with onion, stew with Italian seasoning and salt and maybe pepper.

Steam the asparagus by itself.

Pineapple is dessert for everyone except Tif. If I felt the need to do Something with the pineapple, the fruit tea and sugar would probably reduce to an interestingly tangy sauce.

[ghoti]

tuna croquettes. basically, make mashed potatoes. add tuna. chop asparagus and add, if you want. maybe spices. form into patties. fry (but given the lack of oil, i'd say broil. or bake, 350F, 15-20 minutes?)

[the_shoshanna]

What do you make with them?

A phone call to the Chinese place?