Nouveau Nicoise

Canned tuna is NOT for Nicoise salad! Ugh!

IndependentThinker - July 14, 2007 12:59:33 PM PST

A Nicoise salad should NEVER be made with canned tuna, if you must do that then please use an imported (Italian) tuna packed in olive oil...not really in keeping with the French salad but a far superior product. Otherwise go to your local fish monger and get a good piece of tuna, it doesn't have to be very big...after all it is a salad with LOTS of lovely ingredients in it. Then don't just toss it all together like some green side-salad. Dress the ingredients ever so lightly (but separately) and PRESENT them on the plate with the beautifully seared tuna on top. A good Nicoise is a feast for the eyes and the mouth. This recipe should be called Bohemian Nicoise, not Nouveau. Jeez, some things are easy and delicious as they are and shouldn't be messed with, yuck...canned chunk light tuna! :(

BTW: To the previous post, no actual poisonous gases, yes there is a release of sulfur (particularly with old eggs) but it's harmless. It's the sufur that can give that unsightly green tinge to the outer edge of the yolk. For taste reasons you should boil them separately from your vegetables but you cannot be poisoned from a boiled egg, not even if you were to drink the water, although I wouldn't recommend doing that either.

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TOO FUNNY!!!

Keeping it Real - May 19, 2008 04:17:34 PM PST

The reviews on this one was too funny but I thank you for their honest and helpful comments.

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Hygiene, anyone?

emilia630 - May 19, 2008 02:03:13 PM PST

Who cooks eggs in shell with other food? Megagross!!! Did you ask yourself where the egg comes from??? Do you think they remove all traces of chicken guano from the shell, or do you think it's ok to eat it if we just boil it?
Man...

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POISONIOUS GAS!

Nancy L - July 14, 2007 10:37:56 AM PST

I have always been taught that you MUST boil your eggs seperately because when the egg shell is boiled it releases poisonious toxins into the water

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