As much as I love to eat everything, and I do mean LOVE! I eat soup & salad almost every day. I love all kinds of salad: greek, cobb, ceasar, pasta, fruit, and especially a southern fried chicken salad with cornbread croutons because that really exists, at J. Alexander’s.

A Nicoise salad with a cucumber side salad are in heavy rotation at the Raymer house

Nicoise Salad: serving 1

• Greens of your preference, I used a spring mix
• 1/2 can Albacore White Tuna in water (most recipies call for tuna in olive oil, but that’s not how I get down)
• 1 red potato
• red onion
• kalamata olives
• ground pepper

*missing from my recipe for a traditional Nicoise salad

• 1 boiled egg
• Vericots or green beens
• anchovies
• capers
• tomatoes

Tip! Quick boiled potato

• wash potato
• puncture potato with knife or fork several times
• drizzle olive oil all over potato
• wrap potato in wet paper towel
• microwave for 2-3 minutes for small potato

You can dress your salad with the traditional olive oil & balsamic vinegar or you can make your own quick & delish salad dressing

• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
• ground pepper

If you’re like me, one hearty salad isn’t enough. You need another very similar salad as a side.

• 1 persian cucumber
• feta
• red onion
• ground pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

bon appetit!