Salad for Dinner: Complete Meals for All Seasons Hardcover – March 27, 2012

I LOVE this cookbook! I was a little intimidated when I read how many of her own vegetables Jeanne grows, but while there are a lot of somewhat exotic ingredients included in the book, she gives clear advice on where to find them or how to make substitutions if they're not available. The book is broken up into four sections: Vegetarian, Fish & Seafood, Poultry, and Meat (I'm sure a gourmet chef would disagree with me, but I've found that even the non-vegetarian salads can be made vegetarian quite easily without a great sacrifice to taste).Along with countless salad recipes, the book also provides instructions on how to make a plethora of side items: dressings, breads, and sauces, along with salad elements (like roasted beets) required in the recipes.There is a handy list of salads that can be made a day (or more) ahead of time, if you want to plan for tomorrow's lunch, as well as a timeline for which items can be prepared one, two, or three days in advance to save yourself time when you're ready to throw it all together (she also provides clear instructions on how to pack a salad to preserve flavor and crispness). The book also contains a list of salads which can be made without lettuce, if you have difficulty procuring it or want to find one at quick glance, a wheel to identify what is most likely to be in season at a given time, and an incredibly detailed and inspiring index of different greens you might use in a salad. This cookbook is quickly becoming my favorite go-to for any occasion!There is no nutrition information provided for the recipes, so if that's important to you you'll need to estimate that yourself.The only thing I wish this book provided was a list or glossary with recipes sorted based on some of the more hard-to-find ingredients (if I'm traveling an hour out of my way to pick up a few ingredients, it would be great to be able to easily glance and see which different salads I might plan on making with them that week) - but that is nitpicking an excellent, usable cookbook!

I really enjoy this cookbook. I often hear about eating salads for dieting or weight loss, which makes them seem unappealing, but this book celebrates ingredients and flavor combinations that would make you want to eat salad as a first choice and full meal. I am enjoying making various salad dressings at home too. Very nice photos and text.

Overall, I am pleased with the recipes in this cookbook. There are some ingredients I wouldn't use so will skip those salads. For someone who enjoys a variety of salads as a meal, this book gives you many healthy options.

What a visual stunner this book is. If you love salads, you'll want to get your hands on this book for a look-see. There are so many delicious recipes, and most are accompanied with colorful photos. The author gives little snippets of information preceding each recipe that makes reading the recipes interesting and helpful. What sold me on the book, besides the actually yummy recipes and gorgeous photos, were the 25 front-section pages on everything you would want to know about choosing, buying, growing greens, which greens are paired nicely with which vinaigrettes, and then she gives page numbers for those vinaigrettes along with the salads. This is an exceptional book on salads. I would definitely recommend this cookbook.

This cook book is a great addition to my library. I now make healthy meals of salads more often & enjoy Ms. Kelley's writing immensely.

Sam Powell’s salad cook book won my heart.This cook book had too many words and stories and not enough photos for recipes.

Normally when I buy a cookbook, I want to make about 5-20% of the recipes in it. When I first looked through this cookbook, I wanted to make 40-50% of the recipes. I've made 6 of the salads so far, and have yet to be disappointed. The book is full of novel ideas and a few classics--it's not just pages and pages of things like caesar salad and waldorf, but really interesting and creative salads. And every salad in this book is the kind of salad you could eat as a meal.warning for vegans: this book is not vegan friendly. I think there are only a couple recipes that are vegan. Most of the vegetarian ones have cheese.

I love this book. Clear easy recipes, lovely photos, and amazing salads that can actually be your entire dinner. Tons of lovely roasted veggies and easy to make dressings...it's everything I want in a salad book. I wanted this book because I wanted ideas for different salads...this book delivers!There are no run of the mill dressing soaked salads in this book...just yummy freshened up lively ones!