March 5, 2015 Dinner (New recipe) Salad Nicoise with seared tuna

March 5, 2015  Dinner  (New recipe) Salad Nicoise with seared tuna

A day or two ago Suzette bought a 1 12 lb. aji tuna steak and a bag of haricot vert at Costco and she said last night that she wanted to make a Nicoise salad with seared tuna tonight.

I went to Lowe’s Market and bought four new potatoes today and when Suzette came home shortly after 5:00 she began making the salad by simmering three eggs and the four potatoes in a sauce pan with water for about thirty minutes and added a handful of the haricot vert to the sauce pan of simmering water for the last ten minutes to cook them.

Then she shredded a head of romaine lettuce into strips and filled pasta bowls with the lettuce.

Suzette then added black olives and sliced one egg and a boiled new potato for each salad and added them to each salad bowl and then added the string beans, while I made a Dijonaise salad dressing with white wine vinegar, 1 tsp. of Dijon mustard, herbs Provence, garlic, salt and pepper and Sprouts Farm Market’s Spanish olive oil.

The benefit of using good Spanish olive oil is that it does not add any residual flavor to the dressing and you taste the flavor of the individual ingredients more directly.

The salad was delicious and we drank a glass of Winter Haven pinot gris (Total Wine $10.99) which clashed a bit with the vinegar in the salad dressing and a little sweet for the dish, but pleasant by itself.

Bon Appétit