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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.
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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:

1.     Peel, seed & cut the avocados into bite size chunks.
2.     Par boil the chicken breasts then brown them in a pan or on the BBQ. Cool & cut into bite size chunks.
3.     Fry the bacon until crisp.
4.     Cut or crumble the cheese into bite size chunks.
5.     Peel the hard boiled eggs & cut them into bite sized chunks.
6.     Wash, dry then shred the lettuce.
7.     Peel then chop the onion into a medium dice.
8.     Now start assembling the salad:
           - Place the lettuce & Onion into a large bowl & mix well
           - Pour on the salad dressing to taste & mix well.
9.         - 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.
10. You should now have a beautiful & colorful  Cobb Salad. Take it to table this way to show off.
11. 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!