Vinaigrette ingredients:
2 tablespoons sparkling wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 cover hard-neck garlic - minced
1/2 cup olive oil - ideally French or Corsican
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Salad Ingredients:
3/4 pound green beans - trimmed
8 leaves butter or green leaf lettuce
8-16 small boiling potatoes - steamed and halved
1 cucumber - thinly sliced (optional)
1 can (7 oz) canned tuna - drained and flaked
4 farm-fresh eggs - hard cooked and quartered
3 medium ripe tomatoes - quartered
1/4 cup Nicoise olives
10-12 salt-packed anchovy fillets - split lengthwise, soaked in milk and drained OR olive-oil packed anchovies drained (optional with tuna)