Favorite Salad Cookbooks

[Amaranth]

What are some of your favorite Salad Cookbooks or cookbooks with a good salad chapter? We like typical side and main meal salads, pickled salads, European Salads, Asian Salads, Salade Composée, and are interested in trying ones from other countries.

Also like salads that feature a seasonal vegetable/fruit or have a mix of vegetables/fruits from the same season.

[Tussiemussies]

What are some of your favorite Salad Cookbooks or cookbooks with a good salad chapter? We like typical side and main meal salads, pickled salads, European Salads, Asian Salads, Salade Composée, and are interested in trying ones from other countries.

Also like salads that feature a seasonal vegetable/fruit or have a mix of vegetables/fruits from the same season.

Hi Amaranth,

The Cheesecake Factory has their menu online and makes some great salads, although no recipe for the dressing...

[Rosemary]

The Moosewood Daily Special is a soup and salad cookbook that I like.
I don't really use recipes most of the time when making salads, though I do love to look at photos of beautiful salads!

I made a good salad last week that my cousins really enjoyed:
wild rice, cucumber, shredded carrot, spinach sliced into ribbons, minced dried cranberries, lots of cilantro, sunflower seeds, and a dressing made from orange juice concentrate, salt, and a little olive oil.

Generally I like my salads to have multiple textures (e.g. in the salad above: chewy wild rice, crunchy cucumber & sunflower seeds, etc), lots of colors, something sweet (often apple or chopped dried fruit), and some nuts or seeds.

Dressings with curry powder are really good on salads such as my mixture above.

[Paver1951]

How to improve my egg salad recipe? (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As8XChOGe5uu1lhtI64A9TojzKIX;_ylv=3?qid =20120810223714AAKyS3K)

[Zoe Girl]

We are very eclectic salads, I collect salad ideas as I go. My 2 favorites from a Russian family are (very loose directions)
Beet Salad:
grate pickled beets, dice pickles, mix with thawed peas and mayonnaise.

Green Bean Salad:
drain a can or 2 of french style green beans, finely chop walnuts, tear up some cilantro, mix with some mayonnaise and a tsp or so of soy sauce.


However I did jot this article and I am not sure if this is breaking a rule. Here is an idea about how to create a salad bar in your fridge. http://annemh.hubpages.com/hub/Creating-a-Fridge-Salad-Bar

[Rosemary]

Zoe Girl, that link describes how I eat salads every day with minimal time involved - by always having most of the ingredients ready and keeping things prepared ahead of time. It makes a huge difference in the number of vegetables that we eat. Even if I have used up all our cleaned lettuce, for instance, cleaning more is really fast compared to preparing all the salad ingredients. Since I've learned to do this, make-your-own-salad is one of our quickest meals. The same prepped veggies make tacos into a quick meal, too. And they can also be added to various cooked meals to speed prep. For some veggies cooking is part of the prep - I don't care for raw mushrooms, eggplant, or zucchini, but cook them and put them in the fridge in a container for the same uses (on salads or in other meals).

[Zoe Girl]

Rosemary, I love doing salads and even preparing vegies for stir fry like this. I like to make 'fancy eggs' in the morning, sautee onion, zuchinni, peppers, and spinach and mix in with eggs.

[Float On]

Great thread - I love salads.
DH and I had salads probably 2 meals a day before we had children. Yesterday the kids were away and I made salads for lunch and my thoughts were 'just two more years and we'll go back to two salads a day lifestyle'....not sure why the kids have such a negative reaction to my almost daily offering of salads.