Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up

In the much-anticipated follow-up to Pretend Soup, celebrity chef Mollie Katzen cooks up 20 new vegetarian recipes that kids six and under can prepare themselves (with a little help from their adult assistant). The last decade has seen unprecedented demand in healthy eating for kids. Taking this interest one step further, Mollie Katzen presents kid-friendly recipes that will inspire joyful kitchen adventures and food appreciation. With Salad People, children will enjoy a lifelong love and playful respect for nutritious food from Tiny Tacos, Counting Soup, Salad People, and beyond. Complete with kitchen tips, safety and behavior rules compiled by actual kids, and thoughtful observations on what children gain from cooking, Salad People is the model children’s kitchen guide for a new decade. All-new recipes make the perfect companions to Pretend Soup recipes.

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Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up Reviews

Review by Mom of 2 boys:
This cookbook is a real gem in the world of children’s cookbooks. All of the kids’ cookbooks I have seen in the past are heavily laden with sugar, chocolate, and more sugar. This one focuses on simple, healthy recipes such as “Cool Cucumber Soup” with cucumber, mint, honey, and yogurt; or “Foccacia” made with storebought pizza crust, olive oil, and rosemary.

The format is wonderful, with 2 pages for the adult to preread, followed by 2 pages of picture directions, simple enough for a 3 yr. old to “read.”

I feel good about sharing these recipes with my kids (ages 5 and 3) and I don’t have to worry about inducing a euphoric sugar high! My only complaint is that the kids aren’t thrilled with most of the recipes… they took one sip of the cucumber soup and said, “Yuck!” They liked the foccacia but picked off the rosemary. But I will keep trying!

Review by wiredweird:
This is the best cookbook I know for pre-K kids. The recipes are simple and clearly illustrated, but they’re real food – lots of the dishes here would be welcome at any dinner table. If you want to build your child’s self esteem, respect and genuine achievement are the best way to do it. This book respects the child’s intelligence, and offers the achievement of making a real contribution to the family’s meal. Your child will need some help with this book, but you may be surprised at just how little.

When I bought this book at a brick’n'mortar store, the clerk took one look and said “Oh. Vegetarian,” as if that were all she needed to know. Yes, it is a vegetarian book, but that’s the least important thing about it. It’s the best cookbook I know for the age group: real food, not just peanut butter on celery, with skills transferrable to any kind of cooking. As an extra benefit, I’ve found that kids who cook seem a bit less fussy at the dinner table – if that’s a battle you have to fight, you have nothing to lose by taking a chance on this book.

//wiredweird

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Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection: Salad: 57 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well (the Cooking Light.cook’s ESSENTIAL RECIPE COLLECTION)

Discover just how creative and satisfying salads can be with this new addition to the Essential Recipe Collection. A gorgeous collectible volume, it draws from 58 of the very best salads from 20 years of Cooking Light magazine. Recipes include appetizers, main dishes, and make-ahead meals, all promoting the Cooking Light mantra to “eat smart, be fit, live well.”

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Review by Lisa “Nose in a Book” Martin:
OK, so when I picked this book up, I thought “an entire book about salad? That’s ridiculous.” I’ve made six recipes for salad from this cookbook, and every single one of them has been utterly delicious, and completely different! Honestly, I didn’t expect such a wide variety of salad ingredients and dressings. My favorite so far is a sort of gazpacho – tomato salad with home-made bread croutons – they suggest serving it with shredded chicken breast as a dinner salad and my kids have asked me to make it over and over again. (my KIDS, 11 and 13! Can’t believe it!). The book also has delicious appetizer-type salads as well! If you’re looking for some nice summery cool recipes, this is the book for you. Fabulous.

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Simply Salads: More than 100 Delicious Creative Recipes Made from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-to-Find Ingredients

Long gone are the days when people created their salads by purchasing a head of iceberg lettuce and a head or romaine, cutting up a tomato and a boiled egg and adding some wishbone dressing. Today anyone can create a delicious gourmet salad by picking up one of the hundreds of bagged salad mixes available and adding ingredients to create masterpieces such as:
Mandarin Chicken Salad with Toasted Sesame Vinaigrette Classic Caesar Salad with Herb Croutons Spinach Salad with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes Each salad has dressing recommendations and recipes, menu ideas, and nutritional information. The book contains recipes for more than 100 salads and dressings.

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Simply Salads: More than 100 Delicious Creative Recipes Made from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-to-Find Ingredients Reviews

Review by B. Marold:
`Simply Salads’ by relative newcomer writer, Jennifer Chandler, is based on a simple and very attractive premise of using cut, cleaned, and bagged greens from your grocers’ refrigerated produce section. I am not a great fan of these bagged goods, except for the single variety packs of spinach, arugula, and the like. And, since I am known for excessive nit-picking, let me say at the outset that this is a first rate cookbook resource for someone who really likes salads. For those people, especially people with at least three or four people to feed at a sitting who do not have a lot of time to shop for and prep the individual greens, this is a superb premise, and Ms. Chandler pulls it off with very few gotchas.

The biggest question regarding these packaged greens, of course, is whether to trust the `pre-washed’ claim, especially in light of the recent vegetable borne food contamination on spinach and onions. I was firmly in the camp, even before this news, of thoroughly washing all greens, sometimes several times (for spinach especially), and I was backed up in this view by no less then Emeril Lagasse who, on a show a few years back, gave a scolding look to the notion of using unwashed greens, regardless of the packaging. The author tends to believe the packagers’ claim of effective pre-washing. I would recommend washing and spinning dry, regardless of how big the `prewashed’ blurbs are on the package.

I warmed up to Ms. Chandler’s book when I saw her list of recommend kitchen tools and pantry items. These lists seem to be done by every Tom, Dick and Harry cookbook writer, and many are unnecessarily long for the `cook because I have to’ working parent. Ms. Chandler’s list is just about right. The only things I would add would be bacon, eggs, and buttermilk to the refrigerator list, with the understanding that you will be making buttermilk based dressings at least once a week (and buttermilk is an ingredient in many of the more popular dressings in this book).

The fact that Ms. Chandler assumes you will be making your own dressings, and provides dressing recipes for each salad was the part of the book that really won me over. It also points out that this book is NOT just about speed, as many of the recipes take far longer than the famous ’30 Minute Meal’ rubric of Ms. R. R. The point of the bagged greens is also not primarily about economy. If anything, it’s about shopping time and convenience and avoiding waste. Buying arugula, radicchio, and escarole to create a Mediterranean salad generally leads to having a whole lot of one or two of the ingredients left over. So, while the prepackaged greens may be a bit more expensive than buying them individually, there is less waste. But, as my experience with cooking for only two tells me, buying 10 oz of the packaged greens will not guarantee no waste, especially if your co-diner is finicky, and can’t stand the thought of eating the same salad two days in a row. And, many greens do go downhill very quickly. So, the value of this book is far greater for those of you feeding four or more at a sitting compared to those of us who feed only one or ourselves other.

Once you buy into Ms. Chandler’s premise, the biggest selling point of the book is the fact that our Jenny recreates virtually every major popular salad known to modern man, from the pre-packaged greens and the homemade dressings. And, most (but not all) of the recipes come very, very close to their classic ethnic sources.

In the 100 recipes, there are recipes for Caesar’s salad (classic and neuvo), Cobb’s salad, Caprese salad, Panzanella salad, tuna Nicoise salad, antipasti salad, wilted spinach salad, pasta salads, many slaws, and a few potato salads. In addition, there are several saladized versions of classic dishes, such as a blt salad (didn’t I tell you that you will need bacon on hand), a pulled pork bbq salad, and a southern fried chicken salad. While the author wisely makes no strong claims about all these salads’ being especially healthy, it is relatively easy to see that a blt salad (with no bread) is healthier than the classic sandwich from which it is derived.

It is important to note that a large number of these salads, especially those in the poultry, meat, seafood, and `starches’ (beans, grains, rice, & pasta) chapters are excellent single dish main courses. And, even if you have lots of time to cook, single dish main meals still make a lot of sense because you don’t have to juggle getting three different courses to the table at the same time, while still piping hot. You do need to realize, however, that the prep and cooking times or setup requirements for the proteins in many of these dishes can be extensive. Several chicken dishes, for example, specify grilling the chicken. Were Ms. C. to bring out a second edition of this book, I would suggest she provide alternate instructions on either baking or broiling the chicken (Ina Garten is especially good at quick and easy baked chicken recipes.) Similarly, there is practically no way one will be able to make true barbecued pulled pork in less than a few hours. I would also suggest that Ms. C. specify one or more brand names for her salad mixes, and indicate which of these are available from organic farms.

My only other reservation about the book is that in spite of her blurb on the cover which says `…and a few easy-to-find ingredients…’ there are some ingredients which may require a visit to a speciality market, such as wasabi peas, logs of goat cheese, and Maytag blue cheese. A good megamart such as Wegmans will certainly have all these items, but Wegmans is only in the Northeast US.

Review by kiwanissandy:
I purchased this cookbook based on the other reviews on Amazon; it is absolutely worth it! There are at least 100 recipes and then if you use mix and match variations you could easily have 100 more. Each recipe comes with a color photo as well as a dressing suggestion. Ms. Chandler offers homemade dressing recipes but you could buy a bottled version if you don’t want to make your own. But they are so simple to make and quite a bit healthier (no added preservatives, MSG, etc) that you’ll find your self just making dressing from now on.

Many of the salads are complete meals just by adding a meat (she has chapters devoted to chicken, beef, seafood and pork) plus vegetarian options by adding beans, chickpeas, fruit etc. There’s a great 7 layer salad that is to die for.

Overall a great cookbook, nice photos, great recipes. Well worth it.

Also, a great gift for someone trying to lead a healthier lifestyle by eating and using truly fresh ingredients.

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Mollie Katzen’s Recipes Salads (Mollie Katzen Easel Editions)

Credited with moving vegetarian cooking from the fringes of American society to mainstream dinner tables, Mollie Katzen has proved that there’s more to salad than tossed greens. With fresh fruits and vegetables, pungent cheeses, beans, oils, herbs, and nuts, a salad can be a hearty meal in itself. Celebrating THE MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK’s 30th anniversary, the latest addition to the MOLLIE KATZEN’S RECIPES series brings together her classic salad combinations from MOOSEWOOD and ENCHANTED BROCCOLI FOREST in a convenient easel format. Each recipe is lovingly hand-lettered and illustrated with Mollie’s distinctive pen-and-ink drawings, making this timeless collection the perfect kitchen countertop companion.”Mollie Katzen’s work is the exemplar of a healthful cooking style that has no dogma and offers no apologies.”
–New York Times

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Mollie Katzen’s Recipes Salads (Mollie Katzen Easel Editions) Reviews

Review by Grateful Reader:
Mollie Katzen has given vegetarian cooking style and pizzazz, and this Salad book is no exception. Her new book presents salads and antipastos as a main meal using fruits, vegetables, beans, cheeses, nuts, pastas, oils, and herbs. Mollie emphasizes freshness and educates on less common greens and veggies. She also has recipes for Tofu Mayonnaise and Homemade Croutons. The presentation is illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and sprinkled with useful tips.

The books contents include:

A Pep Talk for Wilted Saladmakers

Other Salad Vegetables

Basic Green Leafy Salad with Three Favorite Dressings

Warm Salad

Raw Vegetable Salad

Tabouli

Lentil-Bulgur Salad

White Rabbit Salad

March Hare

Sri Wasano’s Infamous Indonesian Rice Salad

Kristina’s Potato Salad

Dill Pickle Potatoes

Very-Much-Marinated Potatoes

Perfect Protein Salad

Tofu Salad

Four Waldorf Variations

Just White Beans with Pickled Red Onions

Bermuda Salad

Swiss Green Beans

Chilled Marinated Cauliflower

Bulgarian Salad

Moroccan Orange-Walnut Salad

Eggplant Salads: Romanian, Israeli, Indian, Italian

Marinated Vegetables

Odessa Beets

Balkan Cucumber Salad

Jicama, Orange & Fennel Salad

Marinated Sweet Potatoes & Broccoli

Carrot-Yogurt Salad

Coleslaw

Marinated Pasta Salad

Eggless Egg Salad

Chilled Asparagus in Dilled Mustard Sauce

Alfalfa-Romano Salad

Fancy Stuffed Pears

Spinach Salad with Red Onion, Goat Cheese & Strawberries, and Buttermilk-Balsamic Dressing

Endive & Radicchio Salad with Hazelnuts & Plums

Fennel with Red Onion, Olives & Figs

Vegetarian Cobb Salad

Avocado & Ruby Grapefruit Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette

ANTIPASTO:

Gingery Marinated Chick Peas

Marinated Mushrooms

Marinated Small Artichokes

Bell Peppers

Cauliflower and Carrots

Swiss Chard

Roasted Green Beans with Garlic and Pine Nuts

You will definitely be able to find a salad to serve and eat in this book! I have used her recipes over the years and they don’t disappoint. Highly recommend! Other favorite books are: The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without and THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams

Review by Marilyn J. Morgan:
This is an excellent book that is just about salads that are nutritious and easy to put together. As the author of the Moosewood Cookbook, Katzen has crafted a usable book (sits up on the counter so you can read it without getting it dirty) and one in which really interesting recipes are included. Well worth having as a staple in your kitchen.

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Salad Makes the Meal: 150 Simple and Inspired Salad Recipes Everyone Will Love

Looking for some fresh answers to the question, “What’s for dinner?” Do you want an easy way to enjoy healthier meals? Look no further. Salad Makes the Meal shows you everything you need to know to prepare the best fresh, grilled, steamed, and roasted salad dishes with the ingredients we should all enjoy more often. These fast, one-dish meals will have you rethinking the old idea of salad bar. Packed with more than 75 main-dish salads, as well as plenty of starters, sides, and even dessert salads, you’ll find a wealth of crowd-pleasing dishes like: -Thai Beef Salad with Soy-Lime Dressing -Oven-Fried Chicken Salad with Honey-Buttermilk Dressing -Stuffed Bell Pepper Salad -Pesto Pasta Salad with Grilled Vegetables -Chow-Chow Salad -Sugar Snap Salad with Corn and Cherry Tomatoes -Sweet Potato Pie Salad -Ambrosia Salad

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Salad Makes the Meal: 150 Simple and Inspired Salad Recipes Everyone Will Love Reviews

Review by Daniel P. Lawrence:
Wiley Mullins has brought us a unique and fresh perspective on something most everyone enjoys…salad. These are not ordinary salads, however, many of them are meals in themselves. This book provides great flavor combinations and pairings, alternative protein selections, modern health information and different vinaigrettes for each offering. Wiley also takes the seasonality of ingredients into account which is so refreshing and important. The recipes are simple to follow and the book itself is extremely well-done… perfect for the entire spectrum of cooks. Forget about fad diets and follow this book for a while and your life with most definitely change for the better.

Review by Earnest L. Gunn:
SALAD MAKES THE MEAL IS A FABULOUS DIRECTORY OF UNIQUE,SIMPLE AND DELICIOUS SALADS! THE RECIPES ARE NOT THE SAME, RUN OF THE MEAL ONES SEEN IN MOST RECIPE BOOKS. THE WORDS OF WISDOM AS WELL AS THE NUTRITIONAL TIDBITS ARE PRICELESS! MR.MULLINS HAS INSPIRED ALL OF US TO EAT MORE OF HIS DELICIOUS SALADS!

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Super Salads: More Than 250 Super-Easy Recipes for Super Nutrition and Super Flavor

Salads made from cooked and raw ingredients can provide the nutrients that are so vital to good health and daily function. In Super Salads, you’ll find more than 250 salad recipes-made from a variety of items including greens, whole grains, beans, pasta, chicken, fruit, and eggs-that are easy to make, full of flavor, and economical. Just try: * American favorites including potato salad, cole slaw, Waldorf salad, and chef’s salad * International favorites such as Tuscan three-bean salad; German-style cucumbers with dill and sour cream dressing; and Vietnamese fish salad * Main course salads with meat, poultry, fish and seafood and pasta, such as Italian seafood salad, prawn and mango salad, and chicken Tex Mex salad * Dessert salads featuring luscious fruits * Salad dressings for every type of salad, such as roasted sesame, balsamic vinaigrette, and classic Caesar * Many low-fat options including lighter vinaigrette dressing or substituting low-fat yogurt for sour cream With sidebars-including “Mix & Match” and “Cook’s Tip”-scattered throughout the book, valuable nutrition facts, step-by-step instructions, and advice on shopping for and storing ingredients, Super Salads is guaranteed to add healthy ideas and variety to every meal. REVIEW AUTHORBIO

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Review by foleydog:
I don’t make salads, ever. I’ve always found them time consuming without reliable results. This book is the solution. It’s quick, easy, and the salads (and dressings) are super tasty.

A huge plus is that each recipe comes with nutritional information.

Review by soulatpeace:
This book is huge, never expected for the price. Very good recipes. A lot of pictures which is good for the visual person like me.

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Salad Recipes: A Collection of Easy to Follow Salad Recipes

Table of Contents

Cabbage Salad
Cabbage & Celery Salad
Cucumber Salad
Cucumber & Tomato Salad
Onion Salad
Peas & Celery Salad
String Bean Salad
Winter Salad
Cauliflower Salad
Cauliflower & Tomato Salad
Tomato Salad
Potato Salad
Celery Salad
Sliced Cucumber & Onion Salad
Green Vegetable Salads
Fruit & Vegetable Salads
Apple & Celery Salad
Mix Vegetable Salads
Beet & Bean Salad
Asparagus Salad
Chicken Salads
French Salads
Grapefruit & Celery Salad
Combination Fruit Salad
Summer Combination Salad
Apple, Date & Orange Salad
California Salad
Banana Salad
Banana & Peanut Salad
Pineapple Salad
High-Protein Salads
Peach & Cream-Cheese Salad
Pear & Cheese Salad
Easter Salad
Salmon Salad
Fish Salad
Tuna-Fish Salad
Crab Salad
Mix Fruit Salads
Sunshine Chicken Salad
Fruit Salad Dressing
French Salad Dressing
Mayonnaise Dressings
SourCream Dressing
Cream Dressing

And More …

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Potato Salad: Fifty Great Recipes

No picnic, barbecue, or lazy-day potluck is complete without it- potato salad is the ultimate crowd-pleaser. There are more ways to dress up the homely spud than ever before, and all the best are here-from the tried-and-true classic made with hard-boiled eggs, sweet pickle, and creamy homemade mayonnaise to creative new versions using pesto or smoked turkey. Hot salads are guaranteed to heat up cold weather suppers and potluck dinners. Celebrity salads from such noted chefs as Marcella Hazan and Deborah Madison are an added bonus to this beautifully photographed book, offering salads as suitable for crisp white linens as for the red checkered tablecloth. Curious cooks will find valuable tater tips, including a discussion of the best types of potatoes to use for salads and master recipes for boiling and steaming super spuds. New family traditions start today with recipes from Potato Salad.Potato salad is almost always synonymous with casual outdoor picnics and summertime comfort food. Well, hold onto your spuds, because Barbara Lauterbach’s Potato Salad: Fifty Favorite Recipes will change the way you view this standard accompaniment. Potato Salad features many variations of family recipes, from the New Year’s Day Good Luck Salad, with traditionally Southern black-eyed peas, to the Rosemary Orange Potato salad, with an elegant citrus twist and enough class to serve at any formal luncheon. The book is divided into five sections, and one of the most unusual and fun chapters is dedicated to international potato salads. Here you’ll find salads featuring various seafood, imported meats, and cheeses, such as the Stop and Go Italian Potato Salad and the Niçoise Potato Salad. Accompanying many of the recipes are colorful photos of the finished product to provide additional inspiration and presentation ideas. Potato Salad will satisfy your starchy comfort-food cravings while providing unique hot and cold

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Potato Salad: Fifty Great Recipes Reviews

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Well actually it probably has your mother’s potato salad and a whole lot more. From the traditional to the revolutionary, all the bases are covered in this book. I particularly like Tarragon and Lamb Potato Salad and Jansson’s Temptation. If the spud’s your thing, you must have this book.

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Even if you are an “occasional” cook, this book is fantastic! Most potato salads could be a meal. The information in the chapter called “The Basics” is invaluable for creating superb potato salad. After trying eight recipes, Barbara Lauterbach’s “Potato Salad” will be a mainstay in my kitchen.

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Kristen Suzanne’s EASY Raw Vegan Salads & Dressings: Fun & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Making the World’s Most Delicious & Healthy Salads for Yourself, Your Family & Entertaining

Mounting evidence has shown that heat destroys many of the nutrients found in raw, living food, rendering it harder to digest and nutritionally diminished. Raw food is catching on! From Hollywood stars with personal chefs, to a host of chic new Manhattan restaurants, the Raw Food movement is sweeping the country as people learn about the dramatic health benefits derived by eating a vegan diet in which food is never heated above 118 degrees Fahrenheit. To most people, salads mean “healthy,” and that’s it. But this recipe book introduces you to a world of salads and dressings that taste so good, you’d be willing to have them as your main course! Great salads are all about the dressing, and these dressing recipes will make it so easy for you to introduce more vegetables into your diet, that you won’t even need to think about the dramatic health benefits. You’ll just be thinking about how good they taste! This Raw food vegan recipe book includes: 74 recipes, including: 31 Dressings 37 Salads A “Raw Basics” introduction to Raw food (with 6 basic “must have” recipes) for people who are new to the subject.

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Kristen Suzanne’s EASY Raw Vegan Salads & Dressings: Fun & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Making the World’s Most Delicious & Healthy Salads for Yourself, Your Family & Entertaining Reviews

Review by Trixie Delight:
As I was going RAW… I thought of it as all salads and nuts and that was the RAW lifestyle. Well if I would have had this book when I was first learning about RAW and while complaining about the salads… I would have been way more than happy to make my everyday lifestyle all about the salads. Kristen has shown me in this amazing book, that salads can be fun! With fun salad recipes and phenominal dressing to top the peaks of my salads…. I could live on this book. I have turned my family into Salad loving herbivores and forever our health and lifestyles are changed. I love the dressings. I prepare them and take them along with me to share with friends and family at gatherings

Review by Laura E. Branin:
When the farmer’s markets are open and fresh seasonal veggies are readily available, I could eat salad all day. Much harder during winter in New England when grocery store veggies are limp and tasteless and comfort foods call! But Kristen’s book has got me back to eating salads daily. She has a great variety of dressing recipes and that’s the key for me. I keep my winter salads simple, just organic greens, it’s her dressing recipes that add incredible flavor. My personal favorite, the Zesty Italian Avocado dressing, is so good we seem to be making a batch every other day. The Latin American Fiesta Vinaigrette over Mache and chopped green onions is also fantastic. I keep Kristen’s book in my bag, so I have it handy at the grocery store, I can’t wait to try every recipe in this book!

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Pasta Salad: 50 Favorite Recipes

Barbara Lauterbach, author of Potato Salad and Chicken Salad, has completed her lively salad trilogy. This time around, she’s thinking inside the box — box of pasta that is. Pasta Salad offers 50 recipes for turning everyone’s favorite pasta selection into salad perfection. A light and easy summer dinner or an impressive plate to pass at any gathering, pasta salad fits the bill. Tubes, twists, or bows of cool pasta, delicately dressed, embellished with crunchy snow peas or roasted asparagus, toasty nuts, juicy chicken or tender sweet lobster meat, these salads can hold their heads up in any culinary company. And with a handy visual guide to help distinguish farfalle from fusilli, tips for pairing pasta with whatever ingredients are on hand, and other salad smarts, it’s goodbye deli-counter, hello Pasta Salad.

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Pasta Salad: 50 Favorite Recipes Reviews

Review by B. Marold:
The author of `Pasta Salad’, Barbara Lauterbach, is a culinary teacher and author of two other books on traditional salad types, `Potato Salad’ and `Chicken Salad’.This type of cookbook is always one of the easiest to add to one’s collection, in that if you like the single subject of the book, you are virtually assured of making good use of the book, unlike a volume by the latest celebrity chef or latest exploration of the cuisine of a former Soviet republic.There are three key aspects of the book which add to its attraction. First, almost all recipes are not only fairly simple, they virtually all follow the same pattern, just like gratins, braises, and chowders. Second, although there are a lot of similarities in method, the range of tastes is broad. While French and Italian flavors are the most common, there is a strong contingent of Asian, Greek, and Latin flavors and textures from the use of Oriental noodles like udon, soba, and rice noodles. Third, since the noodles, `supporting cast’ of meats and vegetables, and the dressings are so interchangeable, improvisation can take you well beyond the nominal fifty recipes in the book.The book begins with five master recipes for vinaigrette, mayonnaise, roasting peppers, blanching vegetables, and toasting nuts and seeds. If you have few cookbooks, these are important to have near at hand. I may have added a recipe for aioli, at least as a variation on mayonnaise.There are four chapters on salad recipes. The first, largest, and most interesting is on the vegetable pasta salad. The very first recipe for a salad including squash shows the variety of this dish. Other favorite and unusual ingredients are mango, jicama, pears, and peaches. As you could tell from the master recipe on roasting peppers, this is one of the author’s favorite ingredients. It appears in several different vegetable recipes. The second and shortest chapter adds meat, primarily chicken. I would not be surprised to see a little borrowing from an earlier book in this chapter. The third chapter of recipes covers seafood with all the usual suspects, lobster, shrimp, anchovies, crab, tuna, and salmon. The last chapter of recipes is a catchall of recipes `from family and friends’. It is altogether fitting that this chapter ends with a recipe for the great American `retro macaroni salad’ with mayonnaise, onions, bell pepper, and celery.The book has the contemporary `de rigeur’ feature of cookbooks is a headnote which tells a story of how each recipe was developed, it’s life outside this book, and how it was chosen for the book. Except for attributions of recipes to family and friends, there is no credit given to any other sources. With a pinch of skepticism, I will believe that the author developed most of the recipes. I was almost expecting to see my favorite `World’s Best’ pasta salad recipe done by Jamie Oliver, but these are all just as good.There are a few blemishes that are as much a weakness of the publisher’s copy editor as of the author. One is the flip side of my pet peeve where it is said that salt must melt into the liquid of vinaigrette before adding the oil. For all the times the word `dissolve’ is misused, here is a case where it is missing and it should have been used. Another blemish is an inconsistency in the amount of water specified for cooking pasta in the text and in a table. None of these are serious. I just hope that pointing them out will encourage book publishers to be more vigilant in future volumes.Subjects the author may wish to consider in a second edition of this book are discussions of whole wheat noodles, the impact on a carb sensitive diet from these recipes, and a bit more discussion of mayonnaise and safe storage. I do give the author very high marks for notes on the `shelf life’ of the recipes. That is, which should be served cold, which should be served warm, which can be refrigerated and for how long, and which should be served immediately. You don’t always get this stuff in your Wednesday newspaper culinary supplement.Highly recommended if you make pasta salads. Slightly pricy for fifty recipes, but the chances that you will use a large number of the recipes is very, very good. Easy for all skills and ages!

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Whether you are a great cook or a family-pleasing cook, looking for something “different” to serve, do pick up the “Pasta Salad” cookbook by Barbara Lauterbach. She makes it so easy, by giving you a list of 22 different kinds of pasta, how to measure them and mix them with vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. There are many delicious and different dressings that complement the salads. You will love the salads offered by her family and friends, and delightful stories about each. This is a unique touch you will find in all of Barbara’s books. This is a must, to add to your favorite recipes, or send to a friend you want to impress.

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