Salad nicoise

An easy one to begin with, mainly because it was so hot today that I couldn't be bothered to cook.

You'll need (if you want to make enough for all three of us):

three eggs (hardboiled)
a tin of tuna in oil (drained)
some olives

little gem lettuce
parsley from the garden
a handful of sugar snap peas
some chopped up pepper
a few sticks of celery
cucumber

Put the eggs in a pan, and cover them with cold water. Heat until the water boils, then try and remember to turn them off after 8 minutes or so. Peel when they've cooled down a bit, and chop in half.

Chop up all the salady stuff. If you were making a more traditional salad nicoise you'd have green beans in there somewhere, and maybe some cold sliced potato. Oh, yes, I forgot about the anchovies today - a couple of those each would be rather nice too.

Arrange all the ingredients on a plate. Or slide it all into a bowl, and mix it all up. Presentation is everything, apparently.

You might want it with some vinaigrette, although the oil from the tuna's quite nice drizzled on top too.

We ate this on the balcony today, because it was so warm and sunny. The courgette plant tickled your back as you sat there, and made you jump.