If you’ve been to a farmers market lately, you know that this is the peak time of the year for produce. It’s the time of the year when if you don’t have fresh produce as the star of your meal, you are missing out.
So, we turn our attention to vegetables and salads. Take salade Nicoise, a Provencal-style salad featuring bites of tuna (which can be fresh tuna, seared and sliced, or good old tuna from a can), hard-boiled eggs, green beans, black olives, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, and an olive oil-based vinaigrette, often involving capers.
