Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Just picked


Fresh from our garden for dinner tonight


The last of the peas, green beans and new tomatoes.

Update:

Salade Nicoise

This was our dinner.

The presentation was from the cookbook  Patricia Wells" Salad as a Meal 

She is one of our favourite cook book authors and the salad was a fresh take on this Provencal classic.

We really liked the separation of the individual components- the vegetables were individually tossed in a light lemon and oil dressing ( I added touch of garlic).

Patricia used fresh tuna, grilled- we do not have that available locally so we tried two types of Trader Joe's canned tuna- the yellow fin and solid white - both in oil.

We liked the yellow fin best- it has more solid pinker chunks as seen on the top of the plate.  It was very similar to our favourite Italian tuna which is readily available in Sydney - Sirena  

The Bandol Bastide Blanche 2011 Rose was a perfect match.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Steve for the Bastide Blanche rose recco. We also have been enjoying the Chateau de Pampelonne 2010 rose from Provence. It would be a good match with the meal.

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