I’m not a fresh tomato lover. Unless it’s summer and unless the tomatoes are so red they’ve earned the right to be called ‘tomato’. Luckily, the cherry tomatoes I had in the refrigerator were both. So today’s lunch salad was

• Cherry tomatoes, cut in half
• Parsley, rinsed and snipped
• Red onion, sliced
• Zfatit cheese, crumbled
• Walnuts, broken
• Olive Oil, drizzled
• Red wine vinegar, splashed

Proportions? Feh, eyeball it.

Sorry there’s no picture.. I finished it before I finished the post.

Parsley Fennel Salad Niçoise

This was a simple put-together salad. So what makes it a “Salad Niçoise?” I tend to name things if I put several signature items into the dish. I’m not a purist when it comes to Salad Niçoise, so if it has tuna and olives (preferably niçoise, of course) in it, I’ll ‘abbreviate’ it so people can get what the recipe’s about more quickly.

Rather than using lettuce as a greens base, I used parsley. Added the bright fennel to counterpoint the earthy parsley, and punctuated it with slivers of red onion.

The dressing was equal parts low-fat mayonnaise, capers, vinegar, lemon juice and two parts water.