For some reason we have accumulated an unreasonably large amount of canned sardines. No one in my family eats them; this smacks of some weird diet thing my wife tried for a few weeks.
Anyway, what can I do with them? I like adding anchovies to stews or pasta sauces for the good umaminess. Anything similar I can do with sardines? Or should I discreetly throw them out?
Just eat them out of the can, with some good crusty bread, as I do. Sardines are lovely.
But, if you want to have fun, I came across this earlier today, quite serendipitously.
I find them quite nice, also, with pasta, like here.
As long as they dont have some yuck sauce on them, grill them and eat them on buttered toast
I don’t like fish much, but this:
…is what my brother used to do. Actually he probably still does.
Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and sardines; egg bacon and sardines; egg bacon sausage and sardines; sardines bacon sausage and sardines; sardines egg sardines sardines bacon and sardines; sardines sausage sardines sardines bacon sardines tomato and sardines; sardines sardines sardines egg and sardines; sardines sardines sardines sardines sardines sardines baked beans sardines sardines sardines …
or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and sardines.
With canned sardines? The ones I’ve always had would fall apart if you tried to do that. Fresh ones, sure.
ETA: In re: grilling.
Just donate them (along with any other unused, unopened non-perishables) to the local food bank.
Feed 'em to the cat, he/she will love you 4-ever
Put them on avocado toast
You are all much more fancy than I. I just pop them onto Triscuits and then into my mouth.
Haven’t had any canned sardines around for while but I used to make sardine sandwiches. Just sardines on bread or toast.
Sardines are pretty neutral. They aren’t as strong tasting as anchovies. Spread 'em on something.
Put them in the pockets of a corpse you dump in the Mediterranean to convince the Axis your target isn’t Sicily.
Stink up the place!
Antipasto: with (black) olives; pickled cauliflower, carrots and onions; aged cheese, red pepper, high-quality cold cuts, boiled egg, white asparagus, tomato slices, etc. You could mix it all together into one hell of a salad or lay it all out on a tray without mixing together the ingredients.
ETA: Oooh, ooh: and those little pickled ears of corn!
Mincemeat?
Classic Sicilian Pasta dish: Pasta con le sarde.
You can use fresh or tinned sardines. Tis delish.
I mentioned this is another thread.
Whizz them up into a paste in blender. If they have tomato sauce already on them then great, just chuck the whole tin in. If not, add a bit of tomato puree, finely diced onion, pepper, paprika and a bit of olive oil. Smoosh until smooth and there you have a great sandwich filling or dip for crudites.
One of my favorite pasta dishes. I used to order it every year at TuttaPasta in St Martin. Sadly, Warren retired two years ago. 
Open can
Dump out oil/water
Refill with hot sauce
Eat