Salade Niçoise

Ingredients

• 4 ripe tomatoes sliced
• Salt
• pepper
• 1 green bell pepper
• 8 radishes trimmed and thinly sliced into rounds
• 8 oil-packed anchovies
• 1/2 cup pitted Niçoise or Kalamata olives
• 10 fresh basil leaves shredded
• 4 hardboiled eggs peeled and cut in half
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 romaine hearts bottoms trimmed and separated into leaves
• 8 small waxy potatoes boiled until tender and cooled
• 24 green beans blanched until crisp-tender and cooled
• 1 cup celery chopped
• 1/2 cup fava beans shucked and blanched
• 4 artichoke hearts cooked and cut into 4