Pure theater that will stop everyone in their tracks. Use organically grown flowers and leaves. Gently rinse only if necessary. Serve on top of lettuce, lightly sprinkled with olive oil and your mildest vinegar; Champagne vinegar preferred. The flowers here are nasturtium flowers and leaves, chervil flowers, chive flowers, pansies and violas, dame’s rocket, and…
Salade (Almost) Nicoise
No tuna here, so I’ve used my French Potato Salad and my French Mustard Vinaigrette. Oui, oui. The large heirloom tomatoes are done. They’re still around but don’t have that sun-ripened brightness that makes them queen of the garden throughout the hot days of summer. Cherry tomatoes hold their taste longer, probably because they are…
French Mustard Vinaigrette
Making a Niçoise salad today with the potato salad from yesterday. So here’s the dressing I’ll be using, a simple mustard vinaigrette. When making salad dressings, taste for the balance of oil and vinegar. Each vinegar will vary in dominance over the oil. Lemon juice is the mildest with cider and red wine vinegar…