Salad as a Meal: Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season

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Salad as a Meal: Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season Pub. Date: 4/5/2011 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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Overview

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 world in a salad—with tender greens, savory meat, seafood, and vegetable accompaniments, and versatile dressings—and salad-friendly sides such as homemade bread and home-cured olives. In Salad As A Meal, Patricia Wells gives readers hundreds of delectable ideas, with concepts inspired by her Provençal garden and the interests of students in her high-demand cooking classes. Patricia knows how we want to eat today—and shows us with these exceptional recipes, including:

Spring Salad: Asparagus, Peas, Beans, and Fennel
Summer Salad: Green Beans, Toasted Nuts, and Cured Olives
Provence on a Plate: Eggplant, Tomatoes, Goat Cheese, and Tapenade
Zucchini Blossom Frittata with Goat Cheese and Mint
Quinoa Salad with Spinach, Parsley, and Spring Onions
Chicken and Soba Noodles with Ginger-Peanut Sauce
Lobster Salad with Green Beans, Apple, and Avocado

Patricia also offers recipes for soup sides, from Cilantro-Flecked Heirloom Tomato Soup to Watercress Soup with Warm Oysters, as well as breads of all kinds, including Crispy Flatbread, Tortilla Chips, Ham and Cheese Bread, and Multigrain Sourdough Bread. Plus, a list of Patricia's favorite pantry items and an entire chapter devoted to dressings and sauces will inspire readers to come up with their own unique salad creations with ingredients in season and on hand.

Salad as a Meal

Editorial Reviews

Buffalo News

“A guide to serious salads—every detail considered and handcrafted for maximum satisfaction. . . . A full serving of inspiration.”

Epicurious.com

“From cover to cover, the book is lovely: glowing photographs of Wells’ French garden, bright and appealing recipes, and accessible wine recommendations offered in the friendly, snoot-free tone of your local wine shop guy.”

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Library Journal

Multiple James Beard Foundation Award winner Wells is here to say (with 150 recipes) that salads taste good, they're good for you, and they don't have to include lettuce. Given Wells's high profile and the book's useful focus, this can't miss wherever cookbooks are popular. With a 75,000-copy first printing; eight-city tour.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061238833
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/5/2011
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 154,731
Product dimensions: 9.02 (w) x 8.26 (h) x 1.19 (d)

Meet the Author

Patricia Wells

Patricia Wells is a journalist, author, and teacher who runs a popular cooking school—At Home with Patricia Wells—in Paris and Provence. Simply Truffles is her thirteenth book. She won the James Beard Award for The Provence Cookbook, Patricia Wells at Home in Provence, and Simply French. Also nominated for Beard Awards were Vegetable Harvest and The Paris Cookbook. With her husband, Walter, she is also the author of We've Always Had Paris . . . and Provence. The French government has honored her as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, recognizing her contribution to French culture. A former New York Times reporter, she is the only foreigner and only woman to serve as restaurant critic for a major French publication, L'Express. For more than twenty-five years she was the global restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune.

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Posted April 5, 2011

Inspiring But Not As Practical As I Hoped

I like the idea of having salad as a main dish and this cookbook boasts more than 150 recipes for light and healthy meals. With a focus on fresh ingredients and French cuisine, along with beautiful color photographs (although many are not of the recipes themselves), one can't help but be inspired. The section on salad dressings offers good recipes to make salads taste even fresher. There is also a section of breads and soups which always go well with salad.

The challenge with this cookbook is that while the concept of salad is simple, some of the recipes aren't. Some call for specialty ingredients that are not easily found in a local grocery store, and can be expensive. However, cooks with average cooking experience like me or who don't live in an area with year-round farmer's markets offering fresh produce can probably improvise. It is also assumed that the reader knows what certain cooking and French terms mean. At times I got the feeling that I would do fine with this cookbook if I lived in France, had access to a farm for my own fresh produce, meat, and eggs; lived close to the sea where I could buy the catch of the day, and if I attended culinary school. Even though we're just talking salads here, I felt at times that the author was writing with her own culinary peers in mind, not the average cook or someone like me from the midwest with limited access to the kinds of foods she suggests.

The author seems to love raw fish, something I avoid completely, so that eliminated several recipes for me unless I decide to try them with cooked fish. I don't have access to fresh fish markets even if I did eat raw seafood. I found a few recipes to try such as the Greek Salad (p. 79) but I don't have access to heirloom tomatoes or uncured black olives that I need to brine myself so I substituted grocery store tomatoes and canned olives. Other recipes call for things such as zucchini blossoms and fresh capers that you cure yourself which are great if you happen to be growing your own zucchini and can pluck the blossoms, or have a caper bush in your backyard.

This book is gourmet in its approach and many recipes aren't necessarily budget-friendly, aren't necessarily simple, and finding some ingredients may be a challenge. The color photos are gorgeous although many of them aren't of the recipes themselves.

I really wanted to love this book because I do like the concept of healthy salads as a main meal. It just wasn't as practical as I hoped but to its credit, there are some recipes the average cook can enjoy and the beauty of the book does inspire. For that reason I gave it a hesitant four stars instead of three.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review but the opinion of it is my own and was not solicited nor was a positive review required.

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ReadingRoom

Posted April 28, 2011

Great Book!

I was very impressed with this book, both for the quality of recipes, illustrations and photographs, and the organization. There were a great variety of salad meals to choose from along with some tempting appetizers and sides to accompany them. I got a kick out of the author referring to soups as "liquid salads" and loved her array of fine soup recipes. Wells also reminds us that salads don't have to consist of just greens as she lays out a spread before us that is delightful. The recipes are easy to follow and the book details equipment you will need to create these meals. You will find so many choices it will be hard to decide where to start.
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