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The Joy of Jell-O Molds: 56 Festive recipes from the classic to the contemporary

Kraft Foods

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If you love Jell-o (and retro recipes) this is for you! 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book is great. It has all of the classic Jell-o recipes you remember from when you were a kid, like Under-the-Sea salad, rainbow molds, ribbon salad. The book also has more modern recipes for the more recently developed "sparkling" jell-o. Great color photos throughout the book.

Jell-o desserts had fallen out of fashion over the last few years, but with the retro food craze, I think we will see a revival. This book is a great place to start. My only complaint is that I wish there were more recipes.

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Features 24 gorgeous full-colour finished-food photos. Special section on creating layers and molding plus unmoulding JELL-O with how-to photos.

Salad Sampler from Quilting in the Country

Jane Quinn

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Main-Course Salads (Main-Course Series)

Ray Overton

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Very Creative !!!!! Full of new and different ideas..... 5 out of 5 stars.
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This salad book by Ray Overton lived up to my every expectation. I have Ray's Main-Course Soups and am thrilled to know this is now a series. Can't wait to get Main-Course Sandwiches.

The recipes in the salad book are so creative and different. Some of our favorites are the Fiery Thai Beef Salad, Pecan Crusted Goat Cheese Salad, and the Southwestern (Layered) Black Bean Salad. The dressings are easy and can be made ahead (they're even better when allowed to sit in the fridge overnight). Can't wait to try more!

I met Ray at a demo/signing in NYC last month. He is a delight. Why haven't we seen him on the TV Food Network? He'd give Emeril some sleepless nights worrying about this creative guy taking over his Live show. With the books he's written and his vast culinary knowledge, humor, style, and personality, it's time for a change!

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Includes everything you need to creat tempting main-course salads for every occasion, from solitary suppers to picnic fare to elegant meals for honored guests.

Williams-Sonoma New Flavors for Salads: Classic Recipes Redefined

Dina Cheney

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Creating enticing salads is easy: Start with the freshest fruits and vegetables, season them with adventurous dressings, and you have an exciting new way of thinking about first-course, main-course, and side-dish salads. Familiar favorites are the foundation for the forty-four recipes in this book, but each one is reinterpreted with seasonal produce; global flavorings; and simple, but high-impact, cooking methods. Whether it’s for a leafy-green, grain-based, seafood-topped, or meat or poultry salad, each recipe explains how and why the innovative ingredient pairings work together to bring exciting new tastes to your table. Dozens of full-color photographs depict each finished dish and reveal a bounty of bold-tasting ingredients that will enliven your cooking. With this book in your kitchen, you have all you need to transform everyday salads into exciting and delicious meals.

Gifts in a Bottle: Salad Shakers (Gifts in a Bottle)

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Not for gift giving across the miles and non-health nuts 2 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

While the majority of the recipes are delicous, the serious draw back of this book is that the majority of the concoctions require refridgeration and need to be discarded after a week. This book is a great idea for those who may want to whip up a quick hostess gift when visiting a neighbor for dinner but not ao great for those who want to blitz their gift lists and make items in bulk for holiday gift giving.

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The Gifts in a Bottle series includes 4 titles, each including recipes to be presented in bottles. Use antique, collectible and decorative bottles to create and give these attractive, affordable and homemade gifts. The books include gift tags for each recipe. Add the finishing touch by cutting out the tags, personalizing and decoratively attaching to the bottles. The four titles include Bath & Body, Liqueurs, Salad Shakers and Sweet & Sassy Sauces.

Chicken Salad: 50 Favorite Recipes

Barbara Lauterbach

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good chicken recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you like chicken, this is a good book for you to have. We have only made a couple of the recipes, but they were easy and delicious. Although most are salad, there are other chicken and poultry recipes here, too, so you can satisfy diverse appetites. This book would make a good hostess gift, since everyone can use new chicken recipes.

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The author of Potato Salad is back with 50 of the best recipes for this old-time crowd pleaser. For potlucks and parties, luncheons and lunch boxes, chicken salad is the perfect solution for today s busy cook. Classics like Waldorf Chicken Salad, bursting with fruit, walnuts, and savory blue cheese, and spicy specialties like Curried Chutney Chicken are irresistible and sure to impress at the family reunion. And fabulous tips for making basics like homemade mayonnaise and vinaigrette make it that much easier. Barbara Lauterbach has fired up her test kitchen, bringing the best of today s ingredients and techniques to bear on a tried and true favorite. The result is fresher, faster, and even more delicious-plain ole poultry just got a whole new attitude.

Ensaladas: Salads, Spanish-Language Edition (Coleccion Williams-Sonoma)

Georgeanne Brennan

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A very nice book of classic and other salads. 4 out of 5 stars.
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`Williams-Sonoma Salad' with recipes and text by Georgeanne Brennan, under the general editorship of Williams-Sonoma founder, Chuck Williams is an excellent little, inexpensive hardcover book all about salads. Unlike some other grandly titled books on salads, this little volume does two big things right for a salads only book.

For starters, it's first chapter of recipes has seven (7) recipes for major, classic salads, almost all of which originated in French, Italian, or American cuisines. These are:

Caesar Salad
Cobb Salad
Potato Salad
Salade Nicoise
Celery Root Remoulade
Insalata Caprese
Ambrosia

The second `big' thing it gets right is that the next four chapters cover salads appropriate to each of the four seasons. While your average megamart has virtually all fruits and vegetables throughout the year, there are still some important seasonal considerations that make a difference in the quality or cost of a salad. For example, asparagus and artichokes are far cheaper in the spring than at any other time of the year; tomatoes and fresh corn are at their very best if obtained locally in the summer; apples and pears are freshest in the fall, and citrus is most abundant and least expensive in the winter.

The last chapter of recipes gives us seven (7) `picnic' salads whose taste improves over time or which are easily assembled at the last minute `on site'. They are also very good for extended periods without refrigeration as they contain no mayonnaise or any other uncooked or semi-cooked eggs.

There is a non-recipe chapter at the end on `Salad Basics' covering the primary ingredients and techniques including vinaigrettes, creamy dressings, types of greens, and varieties of other ingredients. It is beyond me why this chapter is put at the back of the book when it is something you should read before embarking on the recipes or on a career of ad libbing salad making.

The only other quirk of the book's organization is that the two potato salad recipes are in two different chapters, one in the classics and one in the summer chapter. Otherwise, in general, this is a very well thought out book organization, making up for the slightly pricy $16.95 list price for 43 recipes. We are also well served by the fact that there is a full-page color snapshot of the results of each and every completed recipe. For a glossy book like this, one would feel cheated if there were pics of only half the recipes.

With all this good stuff going for it, I did find some things that were just a little off. In the recipes for the classic salads, I found at least four instructions that concerned me. The first two were where poaching chicken and cooking hard-boiled eggs were done at substantially longer times than what I have found to be necessary from both other authoritative recipes and from my own experience. I was inclined to think that the author was just trying to be careful with microbes, until I read the Caesar Salad recipe, where a totally raw egg was used to make the dressing. In all the very best recipes for Caesar Salad, the raw egg is `coddled' before adding it to the dressing. That is, it is cooked in boiling water for about a minute to kill off any microbeasties. I was also just a little concerned with the amount of fresh garlic used in the Caesar salad, and the method by which it was added. It called for first making the toasted croutons, then rubbing the fresh garlic onto the sides of all those little cubes. This seems to be a relatively tiresome method, which could easily be replaced by toasting the bread slices, rubbing on the garlic, then cutting the toast into little cubes. And even better and quite traditional technique is to rub the cut garlic into the wooden salad bowl before mixing the dressing.

All in all, this is a better salad book than others I have seen and it is a very good first salad book.

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From tender spring asparagus to spicy autumn greens and luscious summer berries, Ensaladas offers more than 40 eye-catching, mouthwatering salad recipes, which are grouped by season to emphasize the importance of using ingredients as they reach their natural peak of ripeness. Color photos are featured throughout.

Salads

Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti

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ORIGINAL AND TASTEFULL RECIPES 5 out of 5 stars.
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i made 7 recipes from this book, and all of them were really good, healthy and easy to do. It is boring to eat the same salad in your house. With this book, you can make new, original and easy salads, and specially very delicious. I recommend it a lot!

Simple But Perfect Salads: The Taste of Summer All Year Round

Beverly Le Blanc

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Oh, yes, give me salads!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the best salad book I have ever seen. I have made about a dozen of the salads so far and every one is a winner. I have flags on the ones I want to try in future and the book looks like it has fringe on the end because I've tagged so many. The ingredients are ones that I either have in the pantry or are easy to purchase so I can plan a whole week of salads if I want to and know that we will yum them up - there are seldom leftovers. A lot of the salads are served warm or room temperature which my husband really appreciates. If you have non-salad eaters in your family - they just might convert if you serve them some of the salads in this book.

Cool Food: 200 Easy and Refreshing Recipes for Lazy Days

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The BEST 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have three in this series and this one is thee absolute best combination of taste-treat recipes! So easy, so unusual and great combination of ingredients. I have my favorite recipes in each of the books but this one has many of my favorites. What a great series. You just can't go wrong with any of them.

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Light, refreshing, and totally satisfying, the recipes in Cool Food provide relief when the temperature soars and hot, heavy food is not an option. Starters include Hummus and Tzatziki; main dishes range from Lamb with Roasted Potatoes to Minced Pork and Noodle Salad; sides feature Greek Salad and Mushroom and Goat's Cheese Salad; and desserts could be anything from Berries in Champagne Jello to a Macaroon Berry Trifle. Each fast and easy recipe calls for a short list of everyday ingredients and satisfies a range of tastes. 200 color photographs are featured.