Saturday, April 7, 2007

What are you doing with the leftover eggs?

As promised, here is the Tuna Nicoise Sandwich I did today on WTNH. It's a great way to use all of those leftover hard boiled eggs; it also makes a great salad over arugula for a crowd.


Nicoise Tuna sandwich

  • 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar, plus additional to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, plus additional to taste
  • 1/8 of a small red onion thinly sliced
    black pepper to taste
  • 1 6-ounce can tuna packed in olive oil
  • lemon juice to taste
  • washed arugula
    2 tomatoes sliced
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs-sliced
  • Niçoise olives, pitted
  • Baguette

    Combine the onion with 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, red-wine vinegar, salt, and several grinds of black pepper in a bowl. Let sit for at least 10 minutes, can be made 1 day in advance.

    Add the tuna (including the oil) and Niçoise olives. Season with fresh lemon juice, red-wine vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste.

    Slice baguette in ½ lengthwise. Scoop out a little of the insides of the bread. Add a handful of arugula, a couple slices of tomatoes, then add about half the tuna mixture and 3 to 4 slices of hard-boiled egg. Generously drizzle with a little more olive oil.

    *This sandwich can also be served as an appetizer with slices of baguette.

Dinner tonight was barbecued chicken drumsticks, steamed broccoli and egg noodles.

I preheated the oven to 450. Lined a cookie sheet with foil and laid out the drumsticks in a single layer. I doused them with barbecue sauce and baked them in the oven for 25 minutes. While that cooked, I steamed some broccoli and boiled some water for the egg noodles.

I also made a salad with the leftover marinated red onions from this mornings TV show, feta cheese, cucumber, tomato, a large handful of flat leaf parsley and romaine. I drizzled the salad with a little more olive oil, a healthy pinch of salt and pepper and the rest of the red wine vinegar that the onions were in.

It was an easy meal because the chicken needed no tending to and the broccoli and noodles cooked so quickly. The girls loved the chicken and ate 2 drumsticks a piece.

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