Master of disguise

There are a lot of challenges I love watching on t.v....the four items in the chopped basket, the taste challenge on Hell's Kitchen, trying to anticipate ingredients in certain dishes to get that "perfect balance" but nothing compares to hiding healthy seafood from my wife, Sims. I love fish, and the tastes that go along with a great fish dish. But tonight I imagined I was on the "Chopped" challenge and I reach in the basket and pull out my four ingredients...they are...1)Fresh Tuna, and 3 notes that say..."OK Oilcan , 2)now hide that flavor from your wife...3)and she has to eat the whole thing.....4)and LOVE IT!!  AHA!!! you lose!!!...now that was the ultimate challenge basket I had in front of me tonight...We had swordfish the other night that I put over Quinoa and topped the fish with sauteed zucchini and eggplant and fresh tomatoes...served grilled corn and peas on the side. I guess she saw right through the disguise. Swordfish is a steaklike fish that shouldn't be too hard to disguise..I thought sneaking that by her would have been as easy as sneaking beer into a concert in the 80's. She said it was good, but I could tell she tasted F I S H....oh well...made tonight more of a challenge...so, here I was with my basket with my four items (see above for 1-4)...so I go to my imaginary pantry for more ingredients...how do you cover/mask Tuna and still make it delicious????? hmmmm.....I've got it!!!!   BACON!!!!!!!!   So.....here we go... took two tuna fillets...sliced hers in half so it would cook to MW-WELL and mine would still be MR-MED...pan fried extra thick slices of BACON in a seperate saute pan...meanwhile, heated up some potato gnocchi (potato dumplings) in a saucepan with boiling water...ok, follow along....when the bacon was cooked put the bacon grease over the tuna in the other pan...left some BACON grease in the other pan to saute red peppers and Vidalia onion....put green beans in the boiling water that was just vacated by the gnocchi....chopped up the BACON and added it to the pepper/onion mix.....added olive tapenade (she loves that flavor) and some fresh tomatoes....finished with some Marsala wine...let that reduce....So....BACON  infused Tuna topped...make that smothered.... with the onion/BACON/pepper/tapenade/tomato mixture served with browned gnocchi (with sauteed garlic and onion) and the green beans......OK, the healthy Tuna became equal to a triple whopper with all that BACON, but I just chalk that up as collateral damage....because my friends...tonight I am a chopped champion!!!!! With a smile on her face she joined the "clean plate club".Yahoo!!! I guess tomorrow will have to be something under 2 grams of fat and about 40 calories.....but tonight.....HAPPY....thank you BACON....sigh