Best Salad. Buy the freshest beans you can find for this simple dish. Then combine them with sherry vinegar, extravirgin olive oil, fresh basil, and good-quality feta cheese for a stellar summer salad. --Recipe by Jack Bishop (June 2001)
Made this tonight to go with grilled steaks. It was really tasty and I would make it again. I just had green beans, no wax beans and they were perfect after being blanched. I chopped grape tomatoes into eighths for the dressing, which ensured there was some tomato for every bute of bean :) this tastes like summer and I would happily serve this pretty salad to guests.
This was very very good, but I think I might change out the vinegar next time to balsalmic. I wanted a little bit more flavor, but then sherry vinegar pickings around here were very slim, so I think perhaps I didn't have a good one. I also thought it needed a little more salt, but that could be because I used goat cheese instead of feta (which is rather salty). All in all, I would make again. Very quick and easy and versatile.
Nice change from lettuce salads. Very fresh flavours. Everyone enjoyed it, even the kids!
