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Salade Nicoise

Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:19:52 GMT

This past weekend, I prepared a Salade Nicoise, for what will probably be our last Al Fresco dinner of this summer season.

For this dish, you will need a large platter 12"- 14" in diameter. Here is my recipe:

Salade Nicoise

8 red potatoes 1/2 lb. green beans

tomatoes 2 hard boiled eggs

cooked shrimp 2 cans solid white tuna

black olives capers

Dressing: 1/3 cup tarragon vinegar( or your favorite vinegar)

2/3 cup olive oil, fresh ground pepper

1 tsp. capers

* Cook unpeeled potatoes and cool. Cook green beans for 7 minutes.

* Slice cooled potatoes and arrange on platter. Pour 1/3 cup

of dressing over potatoes. Then add green beans to platter.

* Drain tuna and place in center.

* Slice eggs into quarters and arrange around tuna.

* Top with black olives and more capers, if desired.

* Pour remainder of dressing over all and cover with plastic

wrap. Refrigerate for a few hours, until well chilled.

* When ready to serve, add chilled shrimp and sliced

tomatoes.

I made this early in the day, to allow time to chill and

I served lemon slices and cocktail sauce for the shrimp.

This will serve 4-6.

Re: Salade Nicoise

rockygems123 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:10:46 GMT

@Enufstuff wrote:

This past weekend, I prepared a Salade Nicoise, for what will probably be our last Al Fresco dinner of this summer season.

For this dish, you will need a large platter 12"- 14" in diameter. Here is my recipe:

                                Salade Nicoise

8 red potatoes                             1/2 lb. green beans
tomatoes                                     2 hard boiled eggs
cooked shrimp                            2 cans solid white tuna
black olives                                 capers

Dressing: 1/3 cup tarragon vinegar( or your favorite vinegar)
                  2/3 cup olive oil, fresh ground pepper
                  1 tsp. capers

* Cook unpeeled potatoes and cool. Cook green beans for 7   minutes.

* Slice cooled potatoes and arrange on platter. Pour 1/3 cup
       of dressing over potatoes. Then add green beans to platter.

*    Drain tuna and place in center.

*    Slice eggs into quarters and arrange around tuna.

*    Top with black olives and more capers, if desired.

*     Pour remainder of dressing over all and cover with plastic
        wrap. Refrigerate for a few hours, until well chilled.

*     When ready to serve, add chilled shrimp and sliced
         tomatoes.

         I made this early in the day, to allow time to chill and
         I served lemon slices and cocktail sauce for the shrimp.

         This will serve 4-6.

@Enufstuff

Looks delicious and beautiful!

Re: Salade Nicoise

rockygems123 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:12:58 GMT

@Enufstuff

And PS you mentioned last al fresco meal of the season will your weather change soon?

Re: Salade Nicoise

Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:43:46 GMT

@rockygems123 It is the evening meal that we will not be eating outdoors. We are surrounded by trees and the mosquitoes come out at dusk. The sun is setting earlier each night. This time of year, it also gets cooler in the evenings.

At night, a few days ago, it was only in the 50's. It was warmer on Friday, when we had an early dinner outside.

We usually eat dinner after 7:00 p.m, when my son gets home from work. I have bad reactions to mosquito bites, so I try to avoid them.

Just last week, my son and I were having dinner on the porch.

The sun was going down, but I didn't see any mosquitoes. But the next morning I discovered two mosquito bites on my toes.

One toe swelled up so badly, with unbearable itching. It has been over a week and the swelling has gone down, but the two bites are still itchy. I have two kinds of medicated gels to use

for the itching.

For the second year, mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus

have been found in the next town to us.

Mosquitoes have loved to feast on me since I was a child. So I try to avoid being out after dusk.

I do enjoy my porch during the day and will sometimes have breakfast outside and listen to the birds, that I feed in the morning.

Re: Salade Nicoise

Desertdi — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:58:51 GMT

Sounds more like maybe "ant" or "spider" bites on toes...

Re: Salade Nicoise

Carolina925 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:24:10 GMT

That looks wonderful!

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We rescue cats — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:12:27 GMT

@Enufstuff - what a beautiful presentation!

Your comments about the mosquitos hit home with me, I too appear to be a magnet for those little bloodsuckers. Now that I know I'm diabetic I figure I'm like a trip to Dunkin Donuts for them!

Re: Salade Nicoise

Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:50:02 GMT

@Desertdi I was also wondering if it could have been a spider bite. After four days, I said to myself, if it isn't better tomorrow, I'm going to the doctor. The next day, it did seem to be a little better and is improving each day.

Years ago, I got a spider bite on my hand, while gardening. The next morning, I had a red line going up my left arm. I went to the doctor and he put me on an antibiotic. I had to have my arm in a sling. I'm just so sensitive to everything.

Re: Salade Nicoise

Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:52:30 GMT

@We rescue cats You are funny " a trip to Dunkin Donuts".

We are just so sweet and inviting to those critters.

I'm type O positive blood. I wonder if that is a factor?

Re: Salade Nicoise

beach-mom — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:01:48 GMT

@Enufstuff - Your version looks great and I will try it! You have such a great presentation - your table looks great!

This was one of the first things I made when I was 14 and my grandmother gave me a French cookbook for Christmas. We have it a lot. My version is a little different. I use Romaine, tuna, green pepper, tomatoes, eggs, black olives, and capers. I toss it lightly like a regular salad. I make my own dressing - using a ratio of 1 big spoon oil to 1 little spoon apple cider vinegar. It's really scientific LOL!

Re: Salade Nicoise

Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:18:13 GMT

@beach-mom

Your salad sounds delicious. That was so great to receive a French cookbook from your grandmother. I would have loved that at that age. My mother wouldn't let me cook and "mess up her kitchen". She would let me help to make salads. I married at a very young age and was thrilled to have my own kitchen to cook and bake in.

It was in the 1970's that I bought my first French cookbook, by Julia Child.

My original Salade Nicoise recipe has Romaine lettuce to line the platter, but I haven't done that in a while. It also has sliced red peppers.

My husband doesn't eat peppers, so I use tomatoes to add some color to the dish. My son doesn't like black olives or capers, so I made a separate plate for him, so he doesn't have to pick them out.

I have been making these salads for over 40 years,

but I don't make it often. My husband is more of a "meat and potatoes" guy. My son and I could live on salads. All five of my children loved salads of many kinds.

Re: Salade Nicoise

beach-mom — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:36:05 GMT

@Enufstuff wrote:
@beach-mom
                Your salad sounds delicious. That was so great to receive a French cookbook from your grandmother. I would have loved that at that age. My mother wouldn't let me cook and "mess up her kitchen". She would let me help to make salads. I married at a very young age and was thrilled to have my own kitchen to cook and bake in.

                 It was in the 1970's that I bought my first French cookbook, by Julia Child.

                 My original Salade Nicoise recipe has Romaine lettuce to line the platter, but I haven't done that in a while. It also has sliced red peppers.

                   My husband doesn't eat peppers, so I use tomatoes to add some color to the dish. My son doesn't like black olives or capers, so I made a separate plate for him, so he doesn't have to pick them out.

                   I have been making these salads for over 40 years,
but I don't make it often. My husband is more of a "meat and potatoes" guy. My son and I could live on salads. All five of my children loved salads of many kinds.

@Enufstuff - The cookbook was my first one. I think I made almost every recipe in it! I still treasure it! And it started my interest in everything French.

I was cooking at a young age. My mom never learned to cook well before she was married, and my grandmother couldn't cook well at all. So mom had me helping in the kitchen early!

I still make 2 of our favorite dishes from that cookbook- the Salade Nicoise and Quiche Lorraine - with Gruyère cheese of course!

You are lucky to have Julia's cookbook! Of all of the cookbooks I have, I don't have that one!

Did you see the movie Julie and Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams? If you haven't it's really cute. A young girl decides to make every recipe in the cookbook you have, one each day! The movie also goes back in time to Julia's journey.

Re: Salade Nicoise

WORKING GAL — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:44:30 GMT

@Enufstuff- Looks delish. I will eliminate the capers as we're not fond of them. Great meal for hot day. Thanks for the recipe and pic

Re: Salade Nicoise

haddon9 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:53:45 GMT

@Enufstuff It looks delicious and perfect for hot weather! It was cool for a week or so but we are now headed for another heat wave.

I'll be over.....what would you like for dessert?

Re: Salade Nicoise

Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:57:22 GMT

@haddon9 When we had this last Friday, the 80 degree weather

had returned, after a few rather cool days.

We had Key Lime Pie for dessert, not too heavy and not too sweet. I didn't make the dessert, my sister in law bought it.

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haddon9 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:57:22 GMT

@Enufstuff I'm also one of those unfortunates who get a bad reaction sometimes from mosquitoe bites. They seem to love me!

My DH spends a huge amount of time in our screen house and never gets a bite and I'm often indoors and will suddenly find a bite. Usually on my legs and feet.

Re: Salade Nicoise

haddon9 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:58:18 GMT

@We rescue cats wrote:
@Enufstuff - what a beautiful presentation!

Your comments about the mosquitos hit home with me, I too appear to be a magnet for those little bloodsuckers. Now that I know I'm diabetic I figure I'm like a trip to Dunkin Donuts for them!

@We rescue cats We must be extra sweet! They love me too but never bother DH!

Re: Salade Nicoise

haddon9 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:00:20 GMT

@Enufstuff Key lime pie sounds perfect for a cool outdoor dinner! Yummy!

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Enufstuff — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:24:58 GMT

@beach-mom I have not seen Julie and Julia. I can probably catch it on Amazon Prime movies.

From Julia's cookbook, I have made Quiche Lorraine,

Buche de Noel, Coq au Vin and Beouf Bourguinone.

Other French recipes that I make are Pots de Creme, Crepes, Pea Soup, French Apple Tarte, and Lentils du Puy.

It has been a while since I've made a quiche. When I would do an Easter brunch for family, I made a couple of different kinds of quiche. Quiche Lorraine is my favorite,

with Gruyere, of course.

My first cookbook, I got from my aunt, for my 10th birthday. It is Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls. My mother did'nt let me make anything, but my grandmother did, at her house.

I still have that cookbook and still use a few of the recipes, especially the one for Apple Crisp. It is SO good

warm with vanilla ice cream.

The topping is butter, flour and sugar and tastes like a sugar cookie. I don't like the Apple Crisp recipes that use an oatmeal topping.

The cool Fall weather is when I enjoy baking and always make the Apple Crisp, a family favorite for 60 years.

Re: Salade Nicoise

SportyShorty07 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:28:58 GMT

@Enufstuff Oooj that's an absolutely GORGEOUS Salade Nicoise, Enuffstuff ! Thank you so much for taking the time to write down the recipe and including the beautiful photos of your finished platter of Salade Nicoise! Such a beautiful, delicious and nutrutious dish that you made ! I love all of the colors- the tuna dip, the bright yellow quartered hard boiled eggs, the "X" of bright crisp green beans, the beautiful red tomatoes next to the greens with the perfect pink shrimp and layered potatoes!

Such an elegant salad on a cheerful yellow table cloth with matching patio furniture and I love the mint green and blue plates! I give you an A+++ on presentation and preparation. Wonderful job- I want to jump right through the page and eat it! I screenshot your photo and recipe so that I can make it in the future. Thanks a billion! You put so much thought into everything that you do and always add special touches- really lovely!