Hearty Vegetable Salad and Vinaigrette

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This was a very unpopular meal with my family! First off, I had trouble finding all the potatoes, and after visiting two high end markets, gave up. However, I was able to find the peruvian potatoes (they taste just like ... potatoes! I mixed these with new red potatoes since the fingerling potatoes were not to be found in North Dallas. Following the directions to the letter, I found that sprinkling only 2 Tb. barely hit the flavor meter on the veggies and 2 Tb. to be weak on the salad. I love pickled beets and 3 bean salad. This recipe will remind you of that. I piled our salad bowls per the directions. After adding an addional 2 Tb. more dressing, I found I liked it. My six year old, who loves veggies (strange but true waded through the 'weird' veggies newly declaring that he 'hated'potatoes. While purple and green make a great decorator combination, the purple from the beets effected even the green veggies and seemd to be a turn off to my family. My husband choked it down because he will eat whatever I put before him, but he felt the veggie combination was too strange for his tastes, and our sugar-holic 13 yo. left the table early after eating the tuna off the top, choosing to go hungry and giving up the special ice cream pie I had for a treat. Both my husband and I were still hungry when we were finished! I think this salad would make a great side (minus the lettuce for those who love beets. Another plus is that the dressing was actually very good, and with only a Tb of olive oil it would make a great dressing on many other types of salads.

Maybe we are just not 'spa food' types!