Apple Tuna Salad

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This recipe makes four or five-ish sandwiches, depending on how much tuna you want to heap on each sandwich.

You will need bread, two of the little 5 ounce cans of chunk light tuna in water, plain unsweetened yogurt (or I guess mayo if that's your thing), leaves of lettuce at least as big as the slices of bread (I like butter lettuce), a crunchy sweet apple like a Fuji apple, sliced Colby Jack cheese, and those adorable toothpicks with the colored frills on top.

Tuna salad
1) Wash or rinse the apple in the usual manner. Peel one side of the apple and cut a decently large slice, then chop the apple slice into little tiny bits. (Please don't grate it. Even coarse graters leave you with limp apple shreddings rather than nice firm bits.) You'll want about 3ish tablespoons of apple when you're done. You can eat the rest of the apple after.
2) Take the tuna cans and drain them. Put the  tuna in a bowl. Add 2-3 tablespoons of yogurt/mayo. Add the apple choppings too. Mix everything thoroughly.
3) Put the tuna salad in a covered container in the fridge overnight, so it can think about its life choices. (Also the flavors blend into each other overnight and make the rest of the salad have a subtle sweetness.)

Sandwich assembly
4) Select your lettuce leaves, and rinse them thoroughly. If the lettuce leaves you are using are way too big to fit on your bread (I'm looking at you, romaine), tear them into pieces until they are somewhere near the size of your bread slices. You don't need to be precise here, you're just trying to make sure you don't have two other sandwiches' worth of lettuce hanging off one end of your sandwich.
5) The sandwich itself goes like this: Bread slice, lettuce, a glop of tuna salad, cheese slice, lettuce, and another bread slice. The lettuce prevents the bread from going soggy.
6) If you want to be fancy, cut the sandwiches from corner to corner and stick the toothpicks in. On one occasion when I wanted to be really fancy, I cut apple pieces into little heart and star shapes and speared those on the toothpicks before driving the toothpick into the sandwich itself. You know, like the thing they do with the olives.

Serve with sunglasses, shrieking children, and pink lemonade.