Marion's country salad

To Marion Cotillard, hip, hip, hip, Hoooray!!!! Thank you, beautiful Marion, for your fantastic performance as French singer Edith Piaf in in the movie "La vie en rose".We are so proud of you: no French actress had won the top oscar since Simone Signoret in 1960.

Consequently, I have created a little salad named after you: fresh, light but with quite a character to it. Here is what you need to prepare two servings of this chicken broccoli salad:

Broccoli and chicken breasts (2)- obviously, "roquette"- a type of lettuce, mushrooms, lardons- bacon bits, lemon, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.

Prior to cooking the meat, let it marinate for an hour or so in olive oil and lemon juice- 6 large spoons of oil and 3 of vinegar. Cook it in a pan on high heat first, toss it until golden, then turn the heat down to low and cook it for 10mn or so.

Cook the broccoli in water until it gets tender. Wedge the mushrooms and put them in a pan with a lid on. Cook them for 5mn max on high heat. Remove them from the pan and reduce the water until it becomes a brown mushroom concentrated juice. Pour it in a bowl, add a crushed garlic clove, 3 spoons of oil, 3 spoons of vinegar and the mushrooms. Cook the lardons in a pan. Once golden, toss them in the bowl with the mushroms, add the broccoli and finally the roquette- or any other type of lettuce.

Serve it with the chicken- a glass of rosé wine like a Tavel could nicely complete it. Et voila, je vois la vie en rose!!!