Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession

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And I am such a freak myself, I just want everybody else to eat the same way. I have so many friends who are like, ‘Oh, we don't eat fruits and vegetables.’ And I'm like, ‘Well, first of all, I don't understand how you're alive. But second of all, you're really missing out because they're so good.’ And I think one of my biggest accomplishments in the past few years has been convincing my parents that they should make their own salad dressing. It took 10 years for them to be like, ‘You know what? You're right, it's not that hard.’ This is my go-to salad for dinner parties. It’s super simple but delicious and everyone always loves it. The frizzled shallots really make it. I use the extra shallot oil to make the same dressing for other green salads too. This rating is based on the reading alone. I haven’t yet had the chance to make any of the recipes. Ingredients: lemons; Swiss chard; labneh; eggs; extra virgin olive oil; chili crisp oil; toasted bread of your choice; garlic Great dish (but a lot of work!). I had some beautiful carrots and radishes from the farmers market, and this was a nice way to use them. It's delicious and two of us ate the whole recipe that supposedly serves four, but it's definitely a recipe for a leisurely afternoon when you want to spend some time cooking.

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Where to start ... for transparency I did not make a single recipe in this book. I took this cookbook out of the local library after seeing it recommended on a local IG feed I had followed for quite some time.I haven't made enough recipes to speak to the overall food quality. I do love that this is dedicated to salads, because I cannot get enough of different kinds of salads! My dream is to hire a salad chef. I liked this much better than the Fly By Jing sauce-- probably because I used pepperoncini flakes, which have less heat than red pepper flakes. I used less cinnamon than called for. Delicious on the soba bowl with peanut sauce. While we don’t always think of green salads as filling, this one made of peas, favas, cheese and olive oil is substantive enough for a meal. The only acid element is the preserved lemon, and they are important. The mint is important too. I used good olive oil as suggested and I couldn’t really taste or sense it, but I found this salad very harmonious, actually very calming to eat as the flavors are fresh and simple. Ingredients: sumo oranges; satsumas; burrata; extra virgin olive oil; flaky salt; Kishu mandarin oranges Delicious salad, though a fair amount of work, It went nicely with grilled pork chops. Leftovers were still good the next day, even after having been tossed with the dressing.

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In her first cookbook, our friend tosses salads together in a whole new way: They're irresistible, exciting, and delicious any time of day. Martha Stewart Living Meh. Liked the dressing, but it doesn't coat the wedge very well. Cheese and other toppings were delicious with it. Maybe I'm just not a wedge person. A salad that is more than the sum of its parts, even when all the parts are completely delicious to begin with! The juicy citrus, crunchy granola, and creamy dairy (I used cottage cheese) play wonderfully together. I used half the stated quantity of chili flakes and was happy with the spice level of the granola. I also finished the salad with hot honey and good olive oil.It loses a star for me because there should be a disclaimer that this cookbook will really only work to it's fullest potential for people who live in large cities with bountiful selection of produce, spices and fresh markets/grocery store produce sections that carry *everything.* It's not suitable for anyone who lives in a food desert, for sure. That all said, while it's mango season here right now, I'll absolutely be making Martha's (yes, the Martha) Mango and Mozzarella salad. I started just taking all the scraps home and surviving off those scraps and making my own meals. And slowly but surely, everything I make came to be a kind of a salad. I just love to eat as many vegetables as possible with a little bit of protein. And I think in the book, I really stretch the definition of a salad. It's not just going to Sweetgreen and getting a huge bowl of kale, it's anytime you're eating in that style of just ‘light, fresh, and truly delicious.’ I was excited to start this book because I was hoping for some exciting takes and ideas about eating salads/vegetables more. However, while there are definitely some interesting and inspiring salads in the book, on the whole it is very un-approachable. RF: Your love for seasonal cooking really comes through in the book. Do you have a go-to salad for every season?