if you have leftover cooked fish (whatever prepared, but best like baked or fried), flake it up, even get to the skin and dark meat rip it up with a knife if you have to, but also get out those errant scales or bone bits. throw it all into a bowl, mash it up a bit (but not too much you want some defined chunks), dashes of old bay (easy, but salty and spicy and colorful), splash of olive oil (creaminess), maybe if you want some of that tasteless parm (eh, texture, maybe I take that back), globs of mayo (umami, the tuna salad vibe).
also globs of mayo, dashes chili powder… something else and maybe another thing. and then can’t go wrong with sesame seeds or crushed peanuts.
recipes that are ideas, more like, read them and then they float around in the back of your mind until one day you’re like, huh, I have some lox or the dregs of last night’s salmon… oh, hey, that recipe whatever said add globs of mayo…
that’s the vibe
must haves: garlic powder, paprika, oyster sauce
must haves: mayo (go for the best), olive oil (go for the best), butter (go for the best), salt (go for the best)
you basically can add a splash of really good olive oil, fresh garlic, a dash of hot sauce, or a bit of paprika