Salad days

Driving home from work on a hot Saturday, I wondered what I might fix for lunch. The heat was both inspiring and un-inspiring at the same time. No hot noodles soups eh? Something Mediterranean I thought. Hmmm. Some version of Nicoise salad would fill the hole nicely.
Popped by the local supermarket to pick up some salad leaves and was home fixin grub in no time. Put the kettle on. Chop up finely some pickled beets and cucumber made a week ago, throw in a sprinkle of dehydrated chopped onion (great for quick vinaigarettes), dash of moutard. Right. Wash the Romaine, roughly chop, ditto red and yellow cherry tomatoes (I love them..mmm-mmm) Open can of "naturally smoked red salmon" (how salmon becomes naturally smoked is another question).
Right. Water's boiled, put egg in, pot, pour water over, bring to boil. Assemble salad. Fish egg out, just nicely coddled with firm whites and runny yolk. Plop over, dash of black pepper, drizzle extra virgin olive oil. Serve with toasted English Muffins with Cream Cheese.
Yum.