A spicy cheese salad and a cool tuna salad

My family, loves having lots of side dishes when eating. A couple of different kind of salads is the most common thing. During summer, in Greece, we have a variety of peppers that is small, green and hot. It's a chilly pepper of some sort. We use those peppers to make what our friends in Thessaloniki call "kaftero" which literally means hot but in this case it actually means spicy.

 To make this salad you need :
- one or two chilly peppers the ones you prefer
- feta cheese
- vinegar
- good olive oil
- a food processor  

Take a frying pan and cook the peppers until they're soft. If you having a barbeque, put them on the fire they will taste even better. Peel the skin and take out most of the seeds if they're very hot. Put them in the food processor, half the cheese, a table spoon of oil and vinegar and blend until smooth.
 Now, you should try the mixture periodically to adjust the flavor to your liking. If it is too hot, put more cheese but don't put it all from the start as if you don't have more peppers you won't be able to make it hotter.
If you don't like feta cheese you can substitute it for some other soft cheese. When my mother makes it for my grandmother who doesn't eat salt, we use a kind of cream cheese.

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  Once, we went with some friends in a fish restaurant in Loutraki (a seaside little town, a couple of hours outside Athens)  and we ate a crab salad that my husband really loved. Upon returning home he asked me to make him this salad but with tuna instead of crab. The result was extremely satisfying so I want to share it with you.
Ingredients:
- 1 large cucumber
- 1 can of tuna in brine
- a couple of spring onions
- some dill
- mayonnaise 

Take the cucumber, peel it, take out the seeds, cut in small pieces and put in a salad bowl. Cut the onions in pieces and throw them in the bowl. Take the tuna, drain the brine, cut in smaller pieces and into the bowl. Use a couple of spoonfuls of mayo and mix all together. Last, mince some dill and mix it with all the other ingredients. You should put it in the fridge for at least half an hour.
If you don't have spring onions or dill you can use just the cucumber and the tuna. My husband prefers it this way.