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Salad as a Meal: Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season
Culinary legend Patricia Wells is back with the definitive guide to creating delicious and hearty salads for any occasion--including more than 150 recipes and gorgeous color photographs.
It's a simple yet compelling concept: enjoying a light and delicious main-course salad as a healthy, fresh alternative to more conventional and traditional fare. You can experience a whole...more
It's a simple yet compelling concept: enjoying a light and delicious main-course salad as a healthy, fresh alternative to more conventional and traditional fare. You can experience a whole...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published
April 5th 2011
by William Morrow Cookbooks
(first published April 2011)
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In Salad as a Meal, Patricia Wells’ twelfth book, she claims her inspiration for it was a bold statement at the top of the menu at Brasserie Lipp on Paris’s Left Bank: NO SALAD AS A MEAL. Presumably, this was to discourage female guests to refrain from ordering a simple salad instead of a more elaborate (and pricey!) entree. However, Wells firmly believes in salad as a meal, especially salads with a bit of protein (think Thai Beef or Rainbow Trout Salad with Sturgeon Roe).
Her 360-page book offer...more
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"I could live on raw fish." If you agree with this statement, then you might really like this cook book by renowned foodie, cooking instructor and gardening enthusiast Patricia Wells. Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of raw scallops and the like. I picked this book based purely on the title; Salad as a Meal. I love salads and I love making them the main dish of a meal, sounds like perfection, right?
Sadly, this book is not for me.
Here's what I liked about it;
1..Excellent and inventive recipe for crou...more
Sadly, this book is not for me.
Here's what I liked about it;
1..Excellent and inventive recipe for crou...more
As I have been perusing this book over the last week or two, I have found myself picking up ingredients at the supermarket which I would normally avoid. I may not have purchased anything highly unusual as of yet but this book has given me some wonderful ideas and provided inspiration for what I already regularly buy.
I love the idea of salads as the center of a meal. My family does not. I would appreciate a cookbook that provides recipes for people, particularly kids, who do not look forward to s...more
I love the idea of salads as the center of a meal. My family does not. I would appreciate a cookbook that provides recipes for people, particularly kids, who do not look forward to s...more
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This isn't a bad cookbook. A bit on the exotic side, with some rather obscure ingredients (plump, moist vanilla beans? pistachio oil?). Seemed very European to me. Most of the dishes that sounded really delicious had dairy in them, in difficult-to-replace roles. So I wouldn't recommend this for anyone trying to eat vegan. Vegetarian would probably be OK, though. And possibly gluten-free omnivore.
There were a few recipes even I found suitable that sounded tasty. I look forward to trying soccas (...more
There were a few recipes even I found suitable that sounded tasty. I look forward to trying soccas (...more
Apr 15, 2013
Maze Branch
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Each month we'll ask you to make two recipes from a designated cookbook: we'll choose the first recipe and ask you to make it at home; you choose the second and bring it to our discussion to share.We'll meet to discuss both recipes and to sample the one you chose. We'll have a potluck of tasty treats! This month's selection is Salad as a Meal by Patricia Wells, and our recipe choice is Cantaloupe, Tomato, Goat Cheese, Cucumber and Onion Salad. Copies of the book are available at Maze.
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I am a huge lover of cookbooks but I did not find a lot to rave about in this cookbook. There are some lovely photographs but not a lot of photographs of the prepared food. I found the recipes are quite modern and trendy, they just did not have a lot of appeal for me. I think this would be a good cookbook for those who tend to follow a vegetarian lifestyle.
Drat. I'm going to have to buy this one. Borrowed it from the library hoping there would only be one or two good ideas to try... alas no such luck. Almost all the recipes look fantastic and there are more ideas than i have kitchen to attempt. Kudos to Wells, good work lady, and darn you.
An entertaining, attractive and healthy book, this was an enjoyable read. The recipes are varied, although a number of them do call for ingredients that are somewhat obscure and/or pricey in the United States. A fun take on healthy food.-- Meagan
Good short read, lots of great recipes and tips on buying the healthiest produce. Can't wait to try some of the dressing recipes!
Super and new ideas for salads year-round.
Average recipes and photos.
Good recipes.
A nice cookbook to look through but not one to buy. I have to say the whole chapter on soup (because soup is like liquid salad) was odd. Soup is not salad, the chapter was just filler for the book. Also, some of the ingredients are a bit odd which is okay but not what I was hoping to find in this book.
An interesting recipe book -- this is definitely not your grandmother's or even your mother's "salad" book. This is the deluxe salad book! I would never attempt some of these recipes because they are just too difficult.
Also, a major downside for this book is that there are no pictures for most recipes.
Also, a major downside for this book is that there are no pictures for most recipes.
I like the idea of salad as a meal and how she added bread recipes to compliment some of her salad recipes. I can't wait to try my hand at some of the recipes, especially the seafood section.
The recipes here look so good I wanted to eat the pages.
Oct 18, 2012
Laura M.
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Recommended by Anthony T.
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Mar 12, 2011 08:03am