Best-ever Salads

Steven Wheeler

ISBN 10: 1843091666 / ISBN 13: 9781843091660

Published by Ultimate Editions, 2001

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1843091666I4N00

Synopsis:

This collection of over 200 recipes shows how much more there can be to a salad than a handful of lettuce and a few tomatoes. In this cookbook, there are salads for every meal, occasion and season, from a simple, tangy Carrot and Orange Salad to the elaborate San Francisco Salad and Tuna Carpaccio. In addition to classic favorites such as Caesar Salad and Salad Nicoise, cooks will also find a deluge of recipes for other delectable salads such as a Spinach and Roast Garlic Salad, and Warm Fava Bean and Feta Salad. Along with the unbeatable simplicity of Apple Coleslaw and Arugula and Cilantro Salad, there are also dishes with exciting and tantalizing combination, such as Hot Coconut, Shrimp and Papaya Salad, Grilled Chicken with Lavender and Herbs, and Goat Cheese Salad with Buckwheat, Fresh Figs and Nuts. Summer is often thought of as the salad's natural season, but with the recipes in this book cooks can expand their salad eating year round, using ingredients such as sweet potato, french beans, plaintains, tofu, chicken livers, prociutto, smoked trout, couscous, eggplant and much, much more. From warm salads to fruit salads, from a delicious appetizer and side salad to an extravagant main course, "Best-Ever Salads" will provide cooks with the perfect salad experience.

Review: Unless you are the kind of purist who insists that the only possible salad is a perfect, classically inclined Platonic essence of green salad, then Best-ever Salads may just possibly represent what the title suggests. A collection of more than 200 fresh and summery recipes, it starts with Light & Side Salads, including a pure "Lettuce and Herb Salad", the classic and very correct "Caesar Salad", "Turkish" and "Classic Greek" salads and a wonderfully luxurious "Fresh Ceps Salad", in which the ceps (porcini) and greens are dressed with an egg yolk and walnut oil dressing. Cooked Side Salads include "Rocket and Grilled Goat's Cheese Salad" and the Art-Deco "Russian Salad", as well as simple recipes which rely on utterly perfect ingredients, such as the plain but delicious "Tomato and Bread Salad" and "Grilled Pepper Salad". Main Course Salads kick off with the favourite "Salade Nicoise", in a beautifully rich version (it's one of those dishes which exist in an infinite number of forms), proceeding through an interesting collection of fish dishes to salad versions of "Chicken Maryland" and the New Orleans "Poor Boy" steak sandwich.

Special Occasion Salads feature such ceremonial treats as "Thai Scented Fish Salad", "Millionaire's Lobster Salad" and "Genoese Squid Salad"--the last typical of that city's cooking in its inventive combination of fish, potatoes and green beans. The final chapter on Fruit Salads ranges from simple but finely judged recipes such as "Watermelon, Ginger and Grapefruit Salad" to very grown up desserts such as "Tropical Fruit Gratin", a combination of fruits topped with a white-wine sabayon and flashed under the grill. One small warning. The recipe for Coleslaw with Pesto Mayonnaise suggests that bought pesto and mayonnaise will give as good results as home-made. This is simply not true: it will not. Bought mayonnaise is just acceptable but pesto in jars is a travesty. Make your own. It takes three minutes. --Robin Davidson

Bibliographic Details

Title: Best-ever Salads
Publisher: Ultimate Editions
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket