Nicoise Salad

Don't you just love having salads in the summer time?  I love a good salad for lunch with all sorts of fresh goodness from the garden.  This salad, is a great way to use up leftover salmon.  It is a hearty salad, with the potato, salmon and eggs in it but it is a beautiful meal to have on a hot summer evening with an ice cold glass of vino......

Nicoise salad


2 handfuls of green beans, trimmed
10-15 baby new potatoes
1 1/2 cups roasted salmon or tuna, (or canned would be fine)
2 roma tomatoes, cut into wedges or chunks
4 hard boiled eggs, cut into quarters
1/2 cup black olives, pitted
1 large handful of arugula (optional, but its sooo good!)

Dressing:
in a jar or salad container combine:
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup white wine vinegar, cider vinegar is fine
1 tsp honey
1 tsp dijon mustard
salt and pepper to taste

Shake well and keep refrigerated

Boil potatoes until fork tender, drain and put them in a bowl with very cold water or an ice bath.  Do the same with the beans.  Cook the beans only a few minutes and quickly transfer them to an ice bath.  Boil your eggs, peel them and then chill. (These ingredients call all be done the day before you'd like to serve this dish to make less work for you on salad day!)

To serve this salad, assemble every item in rows on a shallow platter, it looks so beautiful when it's done.  Drizzle with all the dressing.

You're going to love this one......