My Favorite Salad

My favorite salad is the a Nicoise Salad. It is loaded with all sorts of things. Some find this combination of ingredients to be detestable. I am on the other end of that spectrum. The depiction above is just one combination of possible ingredients (and happens to be the way Erin and I always make it). Apparently the choice of ingredients is a hot topic among people who debate salads. My friend Bruno (who writes his own food blog) ordered one of these at Masa in Los Angeles once and they basically serve it in a bucket, which seemed like a good idea.