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Welcome to French Food
Focus. The name describes the intent of this blog. I'll focus on food
and because I live in rural France the stress will be upon French food.
Not that I will limit myself to food only. There are numerous posts
concerning life in France, comments on life in general and, certainly,
opinions about anything that strikes my fancy.
I welcome your comments and promise to publish all of them good & bad so
long as they're not offensive, pornographic or rude.
If
you have some good recipes you'd like to share or if you want to rave
about any great French
restaurants this
is the place to do it. I hope you enjoy my ramblings about rural France!
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Classic Cobb Salad
Summer is definitely salad time, we love them. A
great favorite here in France is the
Salad Nicoise. The link will take you
to the recipe for my version. Thinking about it, however, I decided that
that the American classic salad, the Cobb Salad, was every bit as good
and makes a nice change. All of the ingredients are readily available
both in France as well as in the U.K. and the USA.
So, here's my recipe for Cobb Salad. Nothing
special in my version; just an authentic classic version as far as I
know. INGREDIENTS: (for a large salad to
serve 4-6 people)
- 3 ripe Avocados
- 2 Boneless chicken breasts
- 9 rashers of bacon
- 3 hard boiled eggs
- 6 oz blue cheese (any type
you prefer so long as you can crumble it)
- 1 large head of lettuce (
classically Romaine, but I like to use 2-3 small Little Gems)
- 1 large red onion
- A salad dressing of your
choice ( I use a creamy vinaigrette)
METHOD:
- Peel, seed & cut the
avocados into bite size chunks.
- Par boil the chicken
breasts then brown them in a pan or on the BBQ. Cool & cut into bite
size chunks.
- Fry the bacon until
crisp.
- Cut or crumble the
cheese into bite size chunks.
- Peel the hard boiled
eggs & cut them into bite sized chunks.
- Wash, dry then shred
the lettuce.
- Peel then chop the
onion into a medium dice.
- Now start assembling
the salad:
- Place the lettuce & Onion into a
large bowl & mix well
- Pour on the salad dressing to taste
& mix well.
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- Arrange the chopped avocados in line nice line down the middle of
the salad.
- Arrange the chicken into a line
next to the avocado
- Arrange the bacon into a line on
the other side of the avocado.
- Arrange the eggs on one side & the
blue cheese on the other side of the bacon & chicken.
- You should now have a beautiful & colorful Cobb Salad.
Take it to table this way to show off.
- Once shown & admired you can mix the whole salad together for
serving.
That's it; a lovely main course
salad. Its a bit of work, but then so is a proper Nicoise. They both
make a great summer meal and its nice to be able to ring the changes
every so often.
Enjoy!
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