Salad Nicoise en Bretagne

We have been lucky enough to make new  friends here in Brittany.  One of them is with a three generational family with a holiday home around the corner from ours. The daughter of the family  lives in London with her husband and two children.  This  is heavenly for us, as the family as well as being  delightful and great fun all speak English.  The children are small (6 years and 4 years), so are lovely holiday friends for our little girl, and because they are not too far from us in London,  we are able to keep in touch and see them occasionally at home, which is a great bonus.

Last week they came round for lunch, and as I have a fussy eater I decided a Salad Nicoise would work well.  I did my usual thing of preparing all the ingredients, but rather then tossing them together I put the vegetables on a platter, and served the organic, free range eggs and the (tinned-responsibly caught)  tuna separately.

The meal was successful as everyone could eat what they wished, ideal with three children eating.  We finished off with poached peaches, so look out for a further post in a day or two.

Fantastic local vegetables
With capers and provencal black olives

Golden organic free range eggs
I sprinkled a little mild paprika on for some colour

Tinned tuna in a bowl seemed a little dull
so I used a fish shape dish,
and made a fish!
With an olive eye and anchovy tail and fins.