2024 the best salad recipes review

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A celebration of contrasts in color, flavor, and texture—an artfully prepared salad is one of the most appealing dishes to eat, engaging all the senses. It is a basic culinary fact but often overlooked: a salad packs the most flavor because the dressing coats every bite. And with the right combination, a salad can be a full meal in itself. 

We all know it is healthier to eat more vegetables and whole grains. But how do you do so on a daily basis? This book reframes the question: Why not make greens the foundation of the plate? Smart, imaginative ideas abound: kale with lemon, parmesan, and almonds; Indonesian chicken salad with pineapple slaw; and salmon with quinoa, sorrel, and yogurt. There are super-hearty salads to satisfy even the biggest appetites, such as Korean barbecue beef salad; duck confit with fingerlings and frisee; and buttermilk fried chicken salad. These recipes help us break out of the “meat-and-three” box, leading to a new way of thinking about dinner.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli (March 27, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847838250
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847838257
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.09 x 0.95 x 10.04 inches
Reviewer: jk
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An excellent resource
Review: This cook book is a great addition to my library. I now make healthy meals of salads more often & enjoy Ms. Kelley's writing immensely.

Reviewer: Karen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Delicious recipes! Highly recommend!
Review: I really enjoy this cookbook. I often hear about eating salads for dieting or weight loss, which makes them seem unappealing, but this book celebrates ingredients and flavor combinations that would make you want to eat salad as a first choice and full meal. I am enjoying making various salad dressings at home too. Very nice photos and text.

Reviewer: Michael Torrusio
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What's up doc?
Review: Didn't know there were so many ways to get a meal from salads, but there are, and this little book will show you the way.

Reviewer: Broget
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic, Whole Food, Vegetable Based, Satisfying Eating
Review: I LOVE this cookbook! I was a little intimidated when I read how many of her own vegetables Jeanne grows, but while there are a lot of somewhat exotic ingredients included in the book, she gives clear advice on where to find them or how to make substitutions if they're not available. The book is broken up into four sections: Vegetarian, Fish & Seafood, Poultry, and Meat (I'm sure a gourmet chef would disagree with me, but I've found that even the non-vegetarian salads can be made vegetarian quite easily without a great sacrifice to taste).Along with countless salad recipes, the book also provides instructions on how to make a plethora of side items: dressings, breads, and sauces, along with salad elements (like roasted beets) required in the recipes.There is a handy list of salads that can be made a day (or more) ahead of time, if you want to plan for tomorrow's lunch, as well as a timeline for which items can be prepared one, two, or three days in advance to save yourself time when you're ready to throw it all together (she also provides clear instructions on how to pack a salad to preserve flavor and crispness). The book also contains a list of salads which can be made without lettuce, if you have difficulty procuring it or want to find one at quick glance, a wheel to identify what is most likely to be in season at a given time, and an incredibly detailed and inspiring index of different greens you might use in a salad. This cookbook is quickly becoming my favorite go-to for any occasion!There is no nutrition information provided for the recipes, so if that's important to you you'll need to estimate that yourself.The only thing I wish this book provided was a list or glossary with recipes sorted based on some of the more hard-to-find ingredients (if I'm traveling an hour out of my way to pick up a few ingredients, it would be great to be able to easily glance and see which different salads I might plan on making with them that week) - but that is nitpicking an excellent, usable cookbook!

Reviewer: OceanGal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: YUM!
Review: What a visual stunner this book is. If you love salads, you'll want to get your hands on this book for a look-see. There are so many delicious recipes, and most are accompanied with colorful photos. The author gives little snippets of information preceding each recipe that makes reading the recipes interesting and helpful. What sold me on the book, besides the actually yummy recipes and gorgeous photos, were the 25 front-section pages on everything you would want to know about choosing, buying, growing greens, which greens are paired nicely with which vinaigrettes, and then she gives page numbers for those vinaigrettes along with the salads. This is an exceptional book on salads. I would definitely recommend this cookbook.

Reviewer: Megan
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ok
Review: Sam Powell’s salad cook book won my heart.This cook book had too many words and stories and not enough photos for recipes.

Reviewer: Cindalou
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book!
Review: I have made a couple of the salads in this book for friends and family and all have raved about them. The flavors are amazing and the salads are beautiful as well as tasty and healthy.

Reviewer: That’s my Patty!
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Crisp, Crunchy and Clear!
Review: I love this book. Clear easy recipes, lovely photos, and amazing salads that can actually be your entire dinner. Tons of lovely roasted veggies and easy to make dressings...it's everything I want in a salad book. I wanted this book because I wanted ideas for different salads...this book delivers!There are no run of the mill dressing soaked salads in this book...just yummy freshened up lively ones!

Reviewer: Adam P
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is one of my favorite cookbooks. Jeanne Kelley is a master at flavour profiles! These salads are healthy, delicious and are a complete meal. Some of the recipes are a little involved but they are worth it. I've made at least half of the recipes and have yet to find a dud. Even her chocolate pie (only dessert recipe) is met with constant rave reviews. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!

Reviewer: Kim McBirnie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I bought this book because my husband and I are on a diet and are eating lots of salads, and I needed some new ideas. This book fulfils that basic requirement and more - we have an allotment and I have already changed this years' growing plan to incorporate elements from this book. Split between vegetarian, fish and meat recipes, as a vegetarian it would be simple to alter the fish and meat recipes to suit. The photography is sumptuous, the vibrant colours of each one - I can't remember the last time I bought a recipe book and wanted to make each and every dish. Highly recommended, I am now going to investigate this lady's other books as well!

Reviewer: Bev Cote
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have just ordered a fifth copy of this cookbook! Four were gifts and a copy for myself. There is my recommendation for this cookbook. I believe it is that good. I was introduced to this wonderful cookbook by a dear friend who made me two amazing meals with recipes from this book and she has recommended quite a few more I am looking forward to trying.

Reviewer: Anne m Newell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is a brilliant book. I bought copies for friends for Christmas as well as for myself. A visitor who saw it went home and also bought several copies.

Reviewer: Doyle Catherine
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A good book but to be honest I haven't made many salads out of it...probably due to the fact that many of the recipes require ingredients that are not normally found in my cupboard.