Margaret Fulton's Nicoise Salad

Before children we had an awesome place we would go to on our our trips out west and have our favourite wood fired pizza. Problem is when my daughter was old enough to eat properly she didn't like the pizza! Well it came about oneday  - the Nicoise salad was ordered and she LOVED it, so problem solved. We now stop to have the most delicious pizza and my three year old eats Nicoise salad :)

So I decided to I would make it, finding a recipe here. Yes it was simple to make but did involve preparing all the components - boiling potatoes, boiling eggs, steaming beans, picking rocket, halving the tomatoes, chopping up some olives - ok, it wasn't difficult at all ! Even then I managed to overcook my potatoes and eggs (i like a runny centre). The dressing was gorgeous - dijon, garlic, oregano, lemon juice, vinegars (I used verjuice and apple cider) and olive oil.

I used a few different potato types (from my brothers vege patch) - spot the purple one :)

This was absolutely delicious, and yes my daughter loved it. We will definitely be making this on a regular basis. The other exciting thing - it was almost all home grown, my brothers beans, tomatoes and potatoes, our rocket and eggs from my parents chooks!