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Haricot Beans and Lentil Salads, etc.
A lesson in restraint: thoroughly drained haricot beans or lentils, a sharp vinaigrette, green parsley, and onion cut cisel and kept apart so every diner chooses the bite.
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Salade d’Estrées
Salade d’Estrées sets crisp celery curls against a true julienne of raw black truffle, then binds them at the last instant with mustard mayonnaise and cayenne. Its luxury is precision, not ornament.
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Salade Italienne
Equal dice, distinct vegetables, and a firm anchovy mayonnaise make Salade Italienne a cool composed salad whose elegance comes from the knife, not from ornament.
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Jockey-Club Salad
Salade Jockey-Club balances tender asparagus tips against fragrant raw truffle, each seasoned on its own and joined at the last moment with just enough sharp mayonnaise to make them hold.
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Salade Demi-Deuil
Equal juliennes of pale potato and black truffle, bordered with inverse rings and barely veiled in mustard cream: Lyon's demi-deuil pattern brought to the table, exact, aromatic, and generous enough for four.
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Salade Opéra
White chicken, scarlet tongue, celery, and black truffle stand in disciplined heaps around green asparagus, with a barely-there mayonnaise that seasons the salad without dimming its Parisian colour.
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Salade de Truffes
Salade de Truffes puts every fault in view: paper-thin raw black truffle, a velvet dressing of hard-boiled yolk, oil, and lemon, with pepper ground at the final moment.
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Celery Salad
Salade de Céleri turns pale stalks into crisp curling fringes, then coats them with mustard and cream. The lesson is absolute: drain the celery hard, because water steals the sauce.
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Potato Salad
Salade de pommes de terre proves the decisive moment comes after cooking: slice the potatoes while lukewarm, dress them before they cool, and the vinegar and oil season every roundel.
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Salade Américaine
Pressed tomato slices and tender potato roundels meet crisp celery julienne, egg, and onion under a clean oil-and-vinegar dressing, a composed salad whose success depends on controlling water before the plate is built.
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Salade à la Flamande
Half crisp endive, one quarter potato, then mellow baked onion and cured herring: a northern composed salad whose exact proportions make a modest weeknight bowl taste deliberate and complete.
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Salade Waldorf
Equal parts russet apple, raw celeriac, and peeled walnuts, bound lightly with mayonnaise claire. Soaking draws off bitterness, neat dice preserve crunch, and the whole salad belongs at a generous cold table.
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Salade Russe
A lavish cold composition of exact little cuts: vegetables, lobster, ham, truffle, capers, and cornichons bound in mayonnaise, then crowned with beetroot and caviar. Dry every piece, because water is the enemy.
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Salade Régence
Cocks’ kidneys, raw truffle, asparagus heads, and celery threads meet in exact proportion under a sharp lemon emulsion, a rare composed salad whose luxury depends on restraint rather than display.
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Salade Isabelle
Four equal heaps of raw mushrooms, crisp celery, tender potato, and artichoke bottoms meet a sharp oil-and-vinegar dressing and fresh chervil in a composed salad whose whole discipline is timing.
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Simple Salads
Five leaves, one living rule: laitue, romaine, chicorée, mâche, or pissenlit must be washed, dried, and dressed only as they go to the table, while every leaf still carries its light vinaigrette.
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Tomato Salad
Salade de tomates makes discipline visible: firm red flesh, skinned and pressed clean of watery seeds, sliced into neat strips, then glossed with oil, vinegar, and the green lift of tarragon.
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Salade Francillon
Salade Francillon turns one rule into grandeur: let warm potato drink its Chablis, then crown it with celery-poached mussels and black truffle in the original two-to-one-to-one proportion.
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Cucumber Salad
Concombres en salade teaches the discipline of drawing out water before dressing: two patient hours with salt, then oil, vinegar, and chervil cling brightly to every cool, crisp slice.
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Salade Danicheff
Five vegetables held in distinct, mayonnaise-dressed heaps, crowned with crayfish tails, hard-boiled egg, and black truffle: a composed salad whose discipline is separation, contrast, and a light hand.
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Salade Niçoise
Salade Niçoise in its grand-kitchen form: equal measures of French beans, potato, and tomato, composed with capers, olives, and anchovy, then glossed with oil and vinegar for a generous cold supper.
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Salade Lacmé
Salade Lacmé keeps every white grain distinct beneath a light curry vinaigrette, with equal measures of red capsicum and tomato sauce, plus onion washed and pressed until crisp rather than sharp.
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Salade Trédern
The shells are the sauce in Salade Trédern: sweet crayfish, lemon-poached oysters, asparagus tips, and raw truffle dressed while barely warm in a coral-tinted, shell-enriched mayonnaise.
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Salade Andalouse
Salade Andalouse turns plainly boiled rice, peeled tomato, mild pepper, garlic, onion, and parsley into a bright cold salad, provided every grain stays distinct and the dressing coats without drowning it.
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Salade Cressonnière
Equal parts potato salad and peppery watercress, folded together only at the last moment, then showered with parsley, chervil, and chopped egg: a quick Parisian salad that keeps its nerve.
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Salade de Légumes
Seven vegetables, cooked separately and gathered warm around a cauliflower crown, take parsley, chervil, oil, and vinegar into every surface. The discipline is timing, the pleasure is abundance.
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Cauliflower Salad
Salade de chou-fleur proves that texture can carry an entire dish: firm florets, cleared of stalk, catch a sharp gloss of oil and vinegar with the quiet anise-green lift of chervil.
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Salads de Betterave (Beetroot Salad)
Salade de Betteraves proves that baking, not boiling, is the whole argument: concentrated garnet sweetness, tender baked onion, sharp mustard, and herbs cut into a weeknight salad worth making ahead.
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Salade Mignon
Equal measures of sweet shrimp and tender artichoke, lightly bound in sharp cream-softened mayonnaise and encircled with black truffle: a cold composed salad whose luxury depends on balance, not excess.
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Salade de Truffes blanches
White Piedmont truffle, shaved at the table over a silken hard-boiled yolk sauce sharpened with Dijon and vinegar. The perfume is the dish, and timing protects every bit of it.
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Salade Allemande
Four equal measures of potato, apple, gherkin, and salted herring stand in separate heaps beneath a sharp hard-boiled egg sauce, with beetroot for deep red sweetness and the herring deciding every grain of salt.
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Salade Belle-Fermière
Curled celery meets neat julienne of potato, beetroot, and capsicum beneath a mustard-cream dressing, a composed salad whose quiet discipline lies in keeping every color, texture, and flavor distinct.
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The Seasoning of Salads
Five dressings, one governing lesson: match fat and acid to the salad itself, from tender lettuce under fresh cream to bitter dandelion leaves glossed with hot bacon fat.
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Celeriac Salad
Céleri-rave becomes supple without losing its bite when a fine julienne meets mustard-rich mayonnaise. The knife work is the dish, and a short rest finishes what the dressing begins.
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Salade Sicilienne
Equal dice, immediate lemon, and a light coat of oil turn four plain ingredients into Salade Sicilienne, a crisp, bright lesson in proportion and timing for the French cold table.
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Salade Rachel
Celery, raw artichoke, truffle, and potato cut to fine julienne, asparagus tips left whole, and just enough mayonnaise to make them cohere: Salade Rachel is restraint dressed for company.
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Red-cabbage Salad
A fine julienne of red cabbage, briefly parboiled and cooled before six quiet hours in oil and vinegar, becomes crisp-tender, wine-dark, and ready for the potluck table.
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Salade Lorette
Salade Lorette is a study in clean contrasts: tender mâche, earthy beetroot, and crisp celeriac in equal measure, dressed simply and joined only when the bowl is ready for the table.
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Potato Salad à la Parisienne
Waxy potato roundels take two dressings in order: dry white wine while lukewarm, then oil and vinegar, with chervil and parsley folded through so every slice stays distinct.
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Salade Victoria
Equal dice of spiny lobster, asparagus tips, truffle, and cucumber meet a coral-tinted mayonnaise, a composed salad whose luxury depends less on display than exact proportion, dry ingredients, and a steady emulsion.
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Salade Parisienne
Langouste and truffle gleam through a clear aspic Charlotte, enclosing a bright vegetable salad bound with aspic-set mayonnaise. The triumph is temperature: thin coats, a deep chill, then one clean turn.
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Salade Mascotte
Salade Mascotte gathers green asparagus, quail eggs, truffle, crayfish, and tender poultry offal beneath mustard cream: a composed salad whose arrangement is part of its flavour.
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Compound Salads
A vivid salade composée for the generous table: five vegetables seasoned separately, arranged in contrasting heaps, and bordered without moulding, so every color stays clear and every bite tastes of itself.
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Salade Monte-Cristo
Four equal heaps, lobster, truffle, potato, and egg, stand around a whole white lettuce heart under mustard mayonnaise and tarragon. Salade Monte-Cristo proves that exact arrangement can be as decisive as cooking.
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