This month’s special for food lovers: We are still in winter and I propose to you a mouth-watering Lardoons Salad, a speciality of Ardennes. At Reims, everyone has an ardennais in his family and also his favourite recipe for a Lardoons Salad. Here is mine and this dish is ideal for dinner.

For four persons:
250 g of smoked lardoons
1 onion
2 heads of salad (choose them crisp: Batavia or Escarole)
In the original recipe, dandelion leaves are used.
6 potatoes
10 cl wine vinegar
Salt, pepper

Boil the potatoes in water, with their skin. Stir the lardoons and the chopped onion in a stew pot. Add little by little the salad leaves, mix in the potatoes peeled and cut into slices, then add the wine vinegar. Salt and pepper to taste.