A favorite French salad is Salade Niçoise - a wonderful presentation of lettuce, tomatoes, steamed green beans, vinaigrette marinated boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, Niçoise olives, cornichon pickles and tuna drizzled with really good homemade vinaigrette. I love to make it with grilled Ahi tuna but really good oil packed tuna is just as delicious. The platter is composed with the greens on the bottom and then placing the rest of the ingredients around the platter as decoratively as possible. Then, serve it family style with great bread, luscious aioli and a chilled French rose wine. A perfect summer meal on a hot evening.
My girlfriends and I got together this last weekend to celebrate a birthday. The birthday girl requested grilled halibut for her special dinner after a bike ride at Dorena Lake. As we were planning the meal, we thought, can you make Salade Niçoise with Halibut? The immediate response was: mais, bien sûr! But, of course! So we made a luscious salad with homemade ciabatta bread, aioli and fabulous rose wine. For dessert we had a fresh blueberry tart. Sadly, no photos of the tart but it was amazing!
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