French Bean Salad with Tarragon and Green Peppercorn

by: Food52

June 4, 2010

In the video below, watch A&M make Jennifer Ann's French Bean Salad with Tarragon and Green Peppercorn. Points covered: how to avoid limp beans, bruised herbs and other menaces that could lead to your perfect salad's undoing.

A big thanks to filmmaker Elena Parker for her excellent work shooting and editing this week's videos.

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kburk2 June 6, 2010

Could you use something else besides mayonnaise for the base of the dressing?

Amanda H. June 6, 2010

You could try yogurt.

kburk2 June 6, 2010

Thank you!

Rhonda35 June 5, 2010

Just imagine if someone sent in a recipe involving grilled lamb and creme fraiche combined?!

Amanda H. June 5, 2010

We might just faint.

aargersi June 4, 2010

This looks great! And Amanda I do believe you have mentioned wanting grilled lamb with other things before, to which I say yum :-)

mrslarkin June 4, 2010

Do you think Amanda likes lamb as much as Merrill likes creme fraiche? :-)

Amanda H. June 5, 2010

Funny it reminds me that the copy editor of my NYT book noted that I needed to stop suggesting Triscuits so often. What can I say -- I like them!