Salad Nicoise

I was super lucky this year to receive the entire collection dvd set of Julia Child's, The French Chef, for my birthday . . . watching the show has been an absolute delight. Last weekend, we watched the Salad Nicoise episode and I was inspired to attempt it for lunch- (however, we we were hungry, and too lazy to go outside, so a couple of ingredients got tweeked- like we had to use baby spinach instead of lettuce and we added cucumber b/c we had some that needed to be eaten. . . and we left out the anchovies)- ok, so i guess it was loosely based on Child's salad nicoise, yet still hearty, fresh and delicious. . . .and a great weekend lunch option.

here is a link to Child's recipe:

http://www.ochef.com/r189.htm

and a peek at our version:

And btw- if you need a gift for someone obsessed with cooking, the dvds were a fantastic present (shout out to my husband Steven).