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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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!

12 comments:

  1. yum that salad looks delicious! aww i want my own vegie garden to whip up this salad!

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  2. Sadly, I've never had a salad nicoise. I've got to correct this - your version looks delicious.

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  3. I've never heard of a child that doesn't like pizza! But she's very posh in like nicoise! I can see why - it looks great.

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  4. Looks great! I can definitely appreciate how much effort goes into this, because even though each task seems easy, doing them all for a salad is very time consuming!

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  5. I really like salad nicoise as it's one of those salads that are substantial enough to have by itself for dinner! :)

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  6. What a turn around that the kiddie is the one ordering the salad! Maybe she'll grow up into a gourmet, or celebrity chef?

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  7. This salad has a little bit of everything - it looks wonderful.

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  8. I love using all home grown ingredients..this looks fabulous! :)

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  9. I love Nicoise salad. It has so many great ingredients that just work perfectly together. I'll have to make this soon, it would be wonderful for a lighter dinner. Thanks for sharing :o)

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  10. This looks delightful! I am glad she turned around her views on the food.

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  11. I love that your salad was almost all homegrown! That's the best feeling :D

    I first had nicoise salad when I saw Margaret Fulton's Nicoise recipe in Good Living last year - it's the best!

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