Salad Nicoise - Cooking Contest Central

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup Olive Oil
• 2 tsp Tarragon Vinegar
• 1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• Juice from half a lemon
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• Approximately 15 leaves of Bibb lettuce (or other hearty leafed lettuce)
• 1 cup fresh green and yellow string beans, steamed, blanched, and drained
• 6 small (fingerling size) red potatoes, boiled until tender then quartered
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 small red onion sliced thin with rings seperated
• 3 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1/2 cup Nicoise ollives
• 3 hard boiled eggs, peeled and quartered
• 1 cup canned cannellini beans, drained
• 6-8 ounces smoked salmon chunks