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With this gorgeous and inventive book full of fresh, bright dressings and vibrant vinaigrettes, you can make salads the stars of your meals, rather than just afterthoughts. You can even make salads that are complete one-plate meals, easy to prepare and full of flavor. 

Mollie Katzen, author of the Moosewood cookbooks, calls lifelong Californian Michele Anna Jordan "the quintessential expert on California cuisine"--and nowhere on earth are salads more celebrated than in California. Michele has been perfecting her salad-making craft over several decades as a chef, caterer, food columnist, and cookbook author. In Vinaigrettes and Other Dressings, she shares her wisdom about the most important element in any salad: its dressing. About half of the recipes in this book are variations on the classic vinegar-and-olive-oil vinaigrette. But Michele takes the vinaigrette formula in surprising and delicious directions, sometimes by using flavored vinegars (either store-bought or flavored by the home cook), sometimes by using dark vs. light or mild vs. strong olive oils, sometimes by switching out the olive oil for another oil, and always by adding flavoring elements like berries, citrus, honey, bacon, nuts, mustard and even wines and sherries.

The remaining recipes include: milk- or cream-based dressings, dressings that start with a base of finely pureed fruits or vegetables, and dressings that feature a distinctively flavored oil, such as walnut oil or hazelnut oil. While the emphasis is on dressings for green salads and which greens pair best with each dressing, there are ample ideas for other uses, such as green bean, potato, and other veggie salads, as well as fruit salads and dinner salads that include meats or fish. The recipes are accompanied by luscious color photographs, and there are plenty of tips for making perfect-every-time salads and for crafting your own signature salads that you can make for years to come.

From the Publisher

Vinaigrettes & Other Dressings

60 Sensational recipes to Liven Up Greens, Grains, Slaws, and Every Kind of Salad

When choosing which recipes to include in this book, I considered several factors. First, always, is taste: Any recipe must be absolutely delicious to make its way into one of my books. Each of the recipes here is versatile, too, which is to say suitable for a range of salads, not just a single esoteric dish.

Ease of preparation and accessibility of ingredients play a role as well; my style of cooking is active and inclusive, a participatory activity and not a spectator sport. If you find yourself with this book in your hands, I hope you will cook from it. That said, these recipes are not set in stone. Each is simply one way to get to a destination. Make the recipes your own, with adjustments, changes, additions, and deletions that reflect not just your preferences but also the environment— the landscape, the climate—in which you live.

I have acknowledged some of the world’s classic salad dressings here, too, in part because they are good, we like them, and homemade versions are better than their commercial counterparts, and in part because context and history are important.

One can’t make a vinaigrette without standing on the shoulders of the world’s first vinaigrette, and one shouldn’t talk about creamy salad dressings without acknowledging ranch dressing, long the most popular dressing in the United States.

Dressing Terms: Savory means, simply, not sweet; sweet implies that sweetness is a dominant characteristic. Warm addresses the temperature of the dressing, while cool indicates a refreshing quality. Spicy heralds the presence of spice — and hot announces the heat of chiles and peppers. Creamy indicates the presence of ingredients that cushion the palate Rich indicates a depth of flavor—think of anchovies Tangy and tart both indicate bright acidity; tangy is more gentle and tart makes you pucker a bit.

PERSEPHONE’S PLEASURE : POMEGRANATE VINAIGRETTE

Persephone presides over the island of Sicily, where her signature fruit, the pomegranate, thrives in lush profusion. So does the orange, including the blood orange, which you should use in this recipe if you can find it. For Persephone’s sake, use fresh rather than bottled pomegranate juice here; it’s quite easy to make.

MINA’S TEARS: ABSINTHE, HONEYDEW, AND CUCUMBER DRESSING

At the Francis Ford Coppola Winery, about half an hour from my home in west Sonoma County, a display case with three of the Oscar-winning costumes from Bram Stoker’s Dracula sits opposite the bar. Although none of Mina’s dresses are displayed, there are photos of them.

GREEN GODDESS DRESSING

File this under “Everything old is new again.” For nearly a decade, green goddess dressing has been enjoying a renaissance, and for good reason: It is delicious. My favorite way to make it is with one of the variations that follow the main recipe.

BASIC WARM POTATO SALAD, WITH VARIATIONS

This salad, inspired by the warm potato salads—pommes à l’huile—of France, is extraordinary just as it is, especially if you use flavorful dry-farmed potatoes, often available at farmers’ markets. It also makes an excellent building block for more complex salads, as suggested in the variations that follow the main recipe.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00E78IGHA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Common Press (April 2, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 2, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 14388 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 197 pages
Reviewer: Jo G
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Recipes for Vinaigrettes and Dressings
Review: I like to make my own dressings as it is super easy and healthy, and this book gives me so many recipes. I first borrowed it from the library and then decided I had to purchase it. Have made quite a few including a green goddess that was delish. I cheat and use my immersion blender to create most of my dressings and then put them in a mason jar. No extra chemicals needed as store bought may have some things I can't pronounce.

Reviewer: Dee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pristine Condition and Amazing Recipes
Review: Just received this book and paid a fraction of the price via 3rd part seller, Half Price Books out of TX. Tried a few so far an am impressed by how easy it is to follow the recipes with local market purchases.

Reviewer: purplepower1976
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Vinaigrettes
Review: I like salads, and nice to have recipes for all types of healthy dressings.

Reviewer: Kathryn Lantz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So many wonderful recipes and ideas!
Review: Many wonderful recipes and plenty of inspiration to be creative on your own. Some of the recipes may be a little fussy, but most yielded excellent results, with lots of ideas for how to use the dressings, besides salads. Those that like to improvise will find lots of inspiration. Really good resource for cooks of any level.

Reviewer: Lilene Sipp
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The only thing I didn't like about it is it didn't have any large quantities ...
Review: The book has lots of recipes and ideas. The only thing I didn't like about it is it didn't have any large quantities ideas. I wanted to make some up for Christmas gifts.

Reviewer: Nicolle M Jordan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: More than just salad dressings....
Review: If you tend to get in a rut with salad dressings, this book is for you. It's a revelation to find there are SO MANY OTHER uses for vinaigrettes. Potato salad, marinades for grilled vegetables, seafood, meat, grain salads... the list goes on and on. Another delight is the use of unusual--and delicious--ingredients like absinthe, yogurt (in a dressing! yes!), melon juice. I love this book and look forward to trying new recipes all the time.

Reviewer: Linda Zalesky
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book amazing ideas and Michele Anna Jordan makes it ...
Review: Well, I found my dream cook books and will NEVER repeat NEVER buy bottled dressing again the in the store....it is now Homemade or it isn't at all.Great book amazing ideas and Michele Anna Jordan makes it so easy and tastes so good!!!

Reviewer: Babs54
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So this book helps me alot since I like to eat a lot of salads
Review: The book has a variety of vinaigrettes. I'm the type of person who doesn't know what flavor goes with what in cooking. So this book helps me alot since I like to eat a lot of salads.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Fast delivery and full of recipes for me to try

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Love vinegarettes and this book gives some more ideas

Reviewer: douglas
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Not What I Wanted