Salads Books

Greens Glorious Greens: More than 140 Ways to Prepare All Those Great-Tasting, Super-Healthy, Beautiful Leafy Greens

Johnna Albi

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The latest word from the nutrition front is that green leafy vegetables may be our most powerful weapon against cancer and other diseases of aging. Plus, most dark leaft greens are high in nutrients such as beta-carotene, anti-oxidants, folic acid, and fiber.
In Greens Glorious Greens! Johnna lbi and Catherine Walthers, both gourmet natural foods chefs, unlock the mysteries of buying and preparing these delicious vegetables. IN an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, they cover thirty-give different greens, providing nutritional information and a brief historical profile for each, plus tips on how to shop for freshness, and how to store, wash, and cut the greens for maximum flavor. Albi and Walthers offer more than 140 ways to turn these nutritional superstars into delicious salads, soups, stews, entrees, and sautees. Most dishes are quick and easy, low in fat, and of the scale in terms of nutrients and taste. Many of vegetarian and therefore cholesterol free, come contain chicken, beef or fish. Any home cook will delight in this clear and engaging guide to preparing all the vegetables that are not only good for you, but just plain good.

Recipes include:
Grilled Polenta with Dandelion Greens, Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas and Collard Greens, Cajun Kale Salad, Broccoli Rabe with Toasted Pecans and Currants, Skewered Chicken Teriyaki over Frisee and Arugula

Raising the Salad Bar: Beyond Leafy Greens--Inventive Salads with Beans, Whole Grains, Pasta, Chicken, and More

Catherine Walthers

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

MV mom and cook 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Raising the Salad Bar has become an irreplaceable stable for me. I have a very well worn and loved copy that is invaluable. This cook book along with a pair of wooden salad tongs has become my favorite gift to give my friends.
My favorite recipes are the Wheatberry and the Chicken Salad recipes. The Fried Tomato and Lobster salad are this side of outrageous! What I like best about this book versus other cook books I have is that these recipes tend to bring out the natural goodness and flavor of the main ingredients rather then mask them w/thick and oily dressings.
The recipes are easy to read. The instructions are straightforward and the end product is always gorgeously presented.

Editorial Review:

This volume of over 135 inventive salad recipes is timed to answer the great demand for healthy recipes with organic ingredients. Walthers offers up delicious twists on tired classics, including pasta salads, salad wraps, bean salads, whole grain salads, and chicken salads. Helpful hints on preparation and health benefits appear throughout.

Simply Salads: More than 100 Delicious Creative Recipes Made from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-to-Find Ingredients

Jennifer Chandler

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What a wonderful world--of lettuce and mangoes and black olives and SALADS! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love an exotic salad. I collect specialty cookbooks. Ergo, "Simply Salads" is now an integral part of my collection.

Not without good reason! Right on the cover, Jennifer Chandler announces that her cookbook contains "more than 100 delicious creative recipes made from prepackaged greens and a few easy-to-find ingredients." My goodness, who could ask for more, but I did. I wanted proof. Let's walk through the book. (When I get a new cookbook, I start at the beginning and leaf through every single page, stopping at certain recipes to read for difficulty and ingredients. Oh my, but I want to try so many recipes from this book.)

This introductory chapter displays all the packaged greens, a standard list of kitchen aids needed, and pantry items. The first recipe is "Steakhouse Wedge Salad" and what a gorgeous photo (Every single recipe has a close-up photo of the salad). By the way, each recipe comes with a homemade dressing, but, of course, store-bought can be used. Here's a Wilted Spinach Salad with mushrooms and an egg-based dressing.

The book is arranged by categories of salads. The two recipes above come from the Greens chapter. Others are the various meats, Fruit, then Beans, Grains, Rice & Pasta, next Slaws, and the additional Dressings chapter. Let's continue our flip-through: Grilled Romaine with mandarin orange slices and toasted almonds with a green goddess dressing. Does it look great! Black and Blue Chicken Salad (Bleu cheese and blackened chicken), Prosciutto and Melon Salad, Beef Tenderloin Salad with Horseradish Dressing (yogurt, sour cream, horseradish, and mayonnaise--sounds heavenly, yes?), and Grilled Lamb and Tabbouleh Salad for a Middle Eastern flavor.

Try this one: Seared Salmon over Mixed Greens (Spring Mix, feta crumbles, dried cranberries, and candied pecans with a Raspberry Vinaigrette. Isn't this a wow?) Or two of my favorite ingredients: Butter Lettuce with Smoked Salmon, capers, and Dill with Lemon Vinaigrette.

From the Vegetable chapter: Warm Fingerling Potato Salad (you gotta love fingerlings), the fabulous Caprese Salad (tomato, fresh mozzarella, and basil with balsamic vinaigrette), Meze-in-a-Minute Platter--you will love this (Romaine lettuce, tabbouleh, hummus, dolmas [stuffed grape leaves], black olives, and tiny pita wedges.

So many of these salads are so summery. My personal favorite (and that was a difficult choice) is Mango, Avocado, and Cilantro Salad made with Spring Mix and chopped red onions. Just think of those flavors and textures. I wonder if I threw in a few boiled shrimp? This fruit chapter offers so many tempting recipes: Orange and Fennel Salad, Watermelon and Argula with feta and toasted pine nuts, Arugula with figs, pancetta, goat cheese.

With summer coming, a book like this, with choices and ingredients acquired ahead, coming home from work and making any of these divine salads will make your evening fresh and refreshing. Feed the kids hot dogs and put on a movie in the den. If the husband insists on meat, grill a chicken breast. Now you can have a relaxing meal on the patio with a bottle of wine or chilled tea. Let your day unwind with "simply salads."

Editorial Review:

Long gone are the days when people created their salads by purchasing a head of iceberg lettuce and a head or romaine, cutting up a tomato and a boiled egg and adding some wishbone dressing. Today anyone can create a delicious gourmet salad by picking up one of the hundreds of bagged salad mixes available and adding ingredients to create masterpieces such as:

• Mandarin Chicken Salad with Toasted Sesame Vinaigrette
• Classic Caesar Salad with Herb Croutons
• Spinach Salad with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

Each salad has dressing recommendations and recipes, menu ideas, and nutritional information. The book contains recipes for more than 100 salads and dressings.

Salad People And More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up

Mollie Katzen

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Fabulous! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Please try some of these recipes with a small group of preschoolers. Delicious and fun!

A great way to teach reading! 5 out of 5 stars.
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These are some really simple recipes that I think most children will enjoy. They are broken down in to small steps with a blurb underneath. Not only will kids be making artistic culinary statements, they can also learn to associate words and pictures.

Editorial Review:

In the much-anticipated follow-up to Pretend Soup, celebrity chef Mollie Katzen cooks up 20 new vegetarian recipes that kids six and under can prepare themselves (with a little help from their adult assistant). The last decade has seen unprecedented demand in healthy eating for kids. Taking this interest one step further, Mollie Katzen presents kid-friendly recipes that will inspire joyful kitchen adventures and food appreciation. With Salad People, children will enjoy a lifelong love and playful respect for nutritious food from Tiny Tacos, Counting Soup, Salad People, and beyond. Complete with kitchen tips, safety and behavior rules compiled by actual kids, and thoughtful observations on what children gain from cooking, Salad People is the model children's kitchen guide for a new decade. All-new recipes make the perfect companions to Pretend Soup recipes.

California Pizza Kitchen Pasta, Salads, Soups, And Sides

Larry Flax, Rick Rosenfield

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At California Pizza Kitchen restaurants across the country, many of the favorite dishes (and most-requested recipes) are not the pizzas! Customers keep coming back for the boldly flavored pastas, soups, salads, and side dishes. The follow-up to the bestselling California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook, this new cookbook serves CPK customers just what they ordered -- secret restaurant recipes, never available before. With gorgeous color photographs of the finished dishes throughout the book, CPK fans will be tempted by recipes for Oriental Chicken Salad, Spinach Artichoke Dip, and Kung Pao Spaghetti, to name just a few.

The new cookbook will include stories and anecdotes from CPK employees from around the country about favorite recipes, customers, and more. In the generous spirit they're best known for, CPK owners Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield will donate all royalties and proceeds from sales of the book in the restaurants to children's charities.

Just like the first CPK cookbook, expect Pasta, Salads, Soups, and Sides to be one of the hottest cookbooks of the year. The CPK chain of restaurants is bigger than ever, and thi5 new hook will be published in the cool California style that has made the first book and the restaurants themselves so popular.

Salad Dressings 101

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Over 101 fresh and delicious ideas.

The best salad dressing recipes from three dozen chefs and cooks are now available in one great collection, Salad Dressing 101.

Chef Nathan Hyam has personally selected over 101 recipes for vinaigrettes, creamy dressings, low-fat dressings, Caesar dressings, and potato and pasta salads dressings.

The introduction provides an overview of the simple ingredients and techniques that make a perfect dressing and demonstrates easy ways to adapt dressing to any salad.

Along with classics that belong in any cook's repertoire, there are innovative dressings with international flavors. Symbols throughout the book provide guidance on which dressings go with which salads.

Discover delicious recipes such as:

• Basic Vinaigrette
• Green Goddess Dressing
• Classic Caesar Dressing
• Basil Balsamic Dressing
• Thai Coconut and Roasted Garlic Dressing
• Miso Gari Vinaigrette.

Salad Dressing 101 is a cookbook for everyone who loves fresh food with flavor that can't be topped.

The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Salad

Georgeanne Brennan

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Tender spring asparagus. Luscious summer berries. Spicy autumn greens and bright winter citrus. More than any other dish, salad allows the characteristic flavors of each season to shine. A simple combination of fresh ingredients in a salad from your kitchen can be more impressive than even the most elaborate dish.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Salad offers more than 40 wonderful salad recipes, grouped by season to emphasize the importance of using ingredients as they reach their natural peak of ripeness. Whether you have a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes in your backyard or a handful of wine-colored beets from the farmers' market, there's a recipe here that offers a delicious way to prepare them. A chapter of portable salads will tempt you to plan a picnic, while a selection of classic salads -- from Cobb salad to celery rémoulade -- rounds out the collection.

Full-color photographs of each dish help make the choice an easy one, and each recipe is accompanied by a photographic sidebar that highlights an essential ingredient or cooking technique, making Salad much more than a great collection of simple recipes. An informative basics section and extensive glossary fill in all you need to know to create the perfect salad.

Salads bring out the best in fresh seasonal ingredients, whether they are delicate spring lettuces paired with soft goat cheese or crisp autumn apples tossed with toasted pecans.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Salad offers more than 40 easy-to-follow recipes, including both classic favorites and fresh new ideas. In these pages, you'll find inspiring salads designed to suit occasions throughout the year -- from an informal summer picnic to an elegant dinner with friends. This vividly photographed, full-color recipe collection, appealing to both novice and experienced cooks, will become an essential addition to your kitchen bookshelf.

Salad Dressings

Jessica Strand

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Every proper salad should come to the table well dressed. Salad Dressings is a veritable wardrobe of vinaigrettes and creamy dressings that are easy to make and even easier to store. Flavors such as tarragon, roasted red pepper, or crumbled Stilton cheese enhance simple salads of tender greens, while creamy varieties such as Tart Russian or decadent Blue Cheese pair sumptuously with heartier flavors and textures. Exotic dressings like Thai Peanut or Indian Curry add distinctive, unusual flavors and elevate the ordinary. Salad recipes sprinkled throughout plus quick recipes for crunchy toppings—think flavored croutons or spiced nuts—top off this handy guide to salad fare extraordinaire.

Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Salads (Mollie Katzen Easel Editions)

Mollie Katzen

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EVERY VEGETARIAN SALAD UNDER THE SUN! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Mollie Katzen has given vegetarian cooking style and pizzazz, and this Salad book is no exception. Her new book presents salads and antipastos as a main meal using fruits, vegetables, beans, cheeses, nuts, pastas, oils, and herbs. Mollie emphasizes freshness and educates on less common greens and veggies. She also has recipes for Tofu Mayonnaise and Homemade Croutons. The presentation is illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and sprinkled with useful tips.

The books contents include:
A Pep Talk for Wilted Saladmakers
Other Salad Vegetables
Basic Green Leafy Salad with Three Favorite Dressings
Warm Salad
Raw Vegetable Salad
Tabouli
Lentil-Bulgur Salad
White Rabbit Salad
March Hare
Sri Wasano's Infamous Indonesian Rice Salad
Kristina's Potato Salad
Dill Pickle Potatoes
Very-Much-Marinated Potatoes
Perfect Protein Salad
Tofu Salad
Four Waldorf Variations
Just White Beans with Pickled Red Onions
Bermuda Salad
Swiss Green Beans
Chilled Marinated Cauliflower
Bulgarian Salad
Moroccan Orange-Walnut Salad
Eggplant Salads: Romanian, Israeli, Indian, Italian
Marinated Vegetables
Odessa Beets
Balkan Cucumber Salad
Jicama, Orange & Fennel Salad
Marinated Sweet Potatoes & Broccoli
Carrot-Yogurt Salad
Coleslaw
Marinated Pasta Salad
Eggless Egg Salad
Chilled Asparagus in Dilled Mustard Sauce
Alfalfa-Romano Salad
Fancy Stuffed Pears
Spinach Salad with Red Onion, Goat Cheese & Strawberries, and Buttermilk-Balsamic Dressing
Endive & Radicchio Salad with Hazelnuts & Plums
Fennel with Red Onion, Olives & Figs
Vegetarian Cobb Salad
Avocado & Ruby Grapefruit Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette
ANTIPASTO:
Gingery Marinated Chick Peas
Marinated Mushrooms
Marinated Small Artichokes
Bell Peppers
Cauliflower and Carrots
Swiss Chard
Roasted Green Beans with Garlic and Pine Nuts

If you cannot find a salad to serve and eat in this list, maybe you just don't like salad! Seriously, I have used her recipes over the years and they don't disappoint. Highly recommend! A great companion book is THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams

Editorial Review:

Credited with moving vegetarian cooking from the fringes of American society to mainstream dinner tables, Mollie Katzen has proved that there's more to salad than tossed greens. With fresh fruits and vegetables, pungent cheeses, beans, oils, herbs, and nuts, a salad can be a hearty meal in itself. Celebrating THE MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK's 30th anniversary, the latest addition to the MOLLIE KATZEN'S RECIPES series brings together her classic salad combinations from MOOSEWOOD and ENCHANTED BROCCOLI FOREST in a convenient easel format. Each recipe is lovingly hand-lettered and illustrated with Mollie's distinctive pen-and-ink drawings, making this timeless collection the perfect kitchen countertop companion.

"Mollie Katzen's work is the exemplar of a healthful cooking style that has no dogma and offers no apologies."
--New York Times

Salad Makes the Meal: 150 Simple and Inspired Salad Recipes Everyone Will Love

Wiley Mullins

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Newsweek recommends "Salad Makes the Meal" 5 out of 5 stars.
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Published in Newsweek, April 19, 2008: 'Just in time for spring, this recipe book is stocked with unusual flavor combos, like watermelon, raspberries and feta cheese and steak, tomatoes and horseradish. Great for dieters and hearty eaters alike.'

Editorial Review:

Looking for some fresh answers to the question, "What's for dinner?" Do you want an easy way to enjoy healthier meals? Look no further. Salad Makes the Meal shows you everything you need to know to prepare the best fresh, grilled, steamed, and roasted salad dishes with the ingredients we should all enjoy more often. These fast, one-dish meals will have you rethinking the old idea of salad bar.

Packed with more than 75 main-dish salads, as well as plenty of starters, sides, and even dessert salads, you’ll find a wealth of crowd-pleasing dishes like:

-Thai Beef Salad with Soy-Lime Dressing

-Oven-Fried Chicken Salad with Honey-Buttermilk Dressing

-Stuffed Bell Pepper Salad

-Pesto Pasta Salad with Grilled Vegetables

-Chow-Chow Salad

-Sugar Snap Salad with Corn and Cherry Tomatoes

-Sweet Potato Pie Salad

-Ambrosia Salad