Hi there! Hope everyone had a nice Labor Day weekend. Ours was very low-key.....just the four of us hanging around, getting a little work done and then just relaxing. The weather was nice enough to get outside and fire up the grill, so I cooked up some burgers and, to go along-side, I made a nice Caprese Salad (fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, good olive oil, salt and pepper) and this delicious Green Bean Salad with Red Onion and Prosciutto. I slightly adapted it from a recipe I saw in a newsletter from Cookies From Italy.com. It's a great salad! It's bright and fresh-tasting, and I love the addition of the prosciutto!
The original recipe calls for regular string beans, but the beans at the nearby grocery store looked terrible, so I decided to go with Haricot vert instead. Haricot is French for bean and vert is the word for green. So, that's right.....these are a French variety of green bean. They are longer and thinner than most American varieties. And, they're nice and tender!
