It's Always a Good Day for Salad

Posted by Nadine Bells

I had a salad addiction. It's bordering on out of control. I have at least one a day. My record is three. Not three side salads. Three entrées. And I don't subscribe to the school of wimpy piles of lettuce. My masterpieces are made in mixing bowls (because you can never consume too many leafy greens), packed with entire peppers, tomatoes, and generous helpings of protein.

So it should be no surprise that A Good Day for Salad is on my radar. Just the idea of a book of salads makes me happy. I know it's not new (it was first published in 1999), but it's new to me. And it sounds like my culinary scene:

Once upon a time, salad meant lettuce, tomato, and cucumber covered in Thousand Island dressing. Today it s succulent fish, seasoned meat, crispy tofu, herb pasta, and anything else you want to toss together in a saladlike way. In A Good Day for Salad, Jeannette Ferrary and Louise Fiszer get creative, offering an intriguing array of starter salads, dinner salads, party salads, picnic salads, and dessert salads, as well as classics and ingenious new takes on old favorites. Here are 150 salads to delight the gourmand, the health nut, the dieter, the vegetarian, hurriers, worriers, and even people who hate to cook. Complete with helpful cooking tips and entertaining anecdotes, A Good Day for Salad is a celebration of the contemporary salad and a tasty answer to just about any mealtime dilemma.

Dessert salad? Why did I not think of this?

Pick up your own copy over at Amazon. And I'll see you in the produce section.

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