This saucy pile of potatoes covered in fat and oil is so not diet friendly. Not for the Montignac Method, not for anyone. So I wont be posting the recipe here. Its just that after not posting for over a month I needed to get back into the swing of things. And after spending two days cooking this for a friends highly esoteric monk fish roasting party someone needed to see this madness. So behold Salade Nicoise a la Julia Child. Or as I will be calling it from now on Bitch Salad.
It seems simple enough until youre boiling those potatoes you cant seem to convince your CSA to stop sending you every week, that your friends are sick of you pawning off on them. About then when its too late to turn back you really read the recipe and see it is three recipes hidden in a recipe for a freaking salad. Two different vinaigrettes and a potato salad? Seriously?
My potatoes committed some sort of explosive suicide while I was wire whipping (Julia is kind of kinky, I always thought of it as a whisk) the first vinaigrette. At which point I gave up and went to a wine tasting and thought about not cooking for awhile considering everything Ive tried to make this week was an epic failure.
My spirits were a little higher this afternoon when I skipped out of work half way through the day and gave the potatoes a stern talking to. They werent pretty and were over done but with the other vinaigrette coating them they were plenty tasty. I have to give it to Julia Child she is a huge picky fussbudget but its usually for a reason. That one bite of potato salad was the best Ive ever had and not just because I miss potatoes. It was delicious and subtle, with scallions making up most of the favor instead of the unfortunate cloying German mayonnaise and mustard version that is so popular.
The fun really started when I got to pile massive amounts of random vegetables and fish on the potato and lettuce bed. Im actually surprised at how tasty it looks. Hopefully the carb eaters of the world will enjoy it. If its a disaster after following all of Julias wacky instructions I really might make the fella take over the cooking. The one thing I can say for this recipe is it didnt ask me to taste raw eggs to check the seasoning which was an actual instruction last time I cooked out of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Oh that Julia Child shes a character.
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