Salad Niçoise and Gravadlax with Cheese Souffés

Again, another bistro classic, this salad is made up of green beans, potatoes, anchovies, olives, tomatoes, hard boiled eggs and a red wine vinaigrette. Instead of using seared tuna on the top of the salad, I used the Gravadlax that I made 3 days ago. The gravadlax recipe states that the fish should be cured for 48 hours, but with school commitments and a forgetful mind, I indeed forgot! The Gravadlax was fascinating! Having never heard of it before, I had to sandwich together 2 fillets of salmon with a curing mixture in the middle made of sugar, salt, dill, lemon juice and pepper. After 48 hours (actually 72!) of being wrapped in cling film and weighed down by 2 tins of tomatoes in the fridge, I cut the, now much less moist, salmon into thin slices. The gravadlax was quite salty and tasted like a cross between smoked salmon and proscuito ham! My mother and youngest brother loved it, but for once, I agreed with my middle brother in saying that it wasn’t my favourite! It did, however, go very well with the salad niçoise.
For similar recipe go to: Salad Niçoise
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/salad-nicoise
For similar recipe go to: Gravadlax
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/super-quick-salmon-gravadlax/#HbkJxcXXkOCXOR6E.97

Ratings: Salad Niçoise
Taste: 9
Appearance:
Difficulty: 5

Ratings: Gravadlax
Taste: 7
Appearance:
Difficulty: 5

The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb 'souffler', which means "to blow up" or, more loosely "puff up". Soufflés were very popular in the 1970's, particularly for ladies on diets!
People seem to have grown tired of them lately and to tell the truth, I am not particularly keen on them myself, they are just too fluffy for my taste! but my father loved it.  I did manage to get 5 cheese souffles to the table without them deflating which I was very pleased with. I don't think they were as good as my mother's friend Leah, who used to make Soufflés at Le Gavroche in London, but it was not bad for a first attempt. 
For similar recipe go to:
http://steamykitchen.com/5248-cheese-souffle.html

Ratings:
Taste: 8
Appearance: 9
Difficulty: 8