Sunday, August 31, 2008

Salad Nice Was

Friday August 29

An assortment of vegetal and fishy leftovers - wax beans from Sunday, little white potatoes from Wednesday, smoked trout from last Thursday, chopped marinated tiny cukes from we don't remember when, and of course a bushelful of tomatoes from various markets and nice neighbors - inspired us towards a Niçoise-type salad. Most of the ingredients weren't standard - smoked trout instead of tuna, wax beans instead of haricots verts, spinach instead of mesclun, spicy green olives instead of wrinkled black ones, no eggs or anchovies (or anchovy eggs, for that matter). Damn good, though, especially with the lightly dry Featherstone Estate Riesling (yes, I know wine isn't supposed to go with salad. All I can say is, it went down just fine).

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