From the Author
delicious salads in a beautiful book you can cook fromThis book was inspired by the kind of beautiful, satisfying, extravagant main-dish salads you find on the menus of top restaurants everywhere today. I've made such recipes practical and easy for the home cook, and have aimed to make every one absolutely delicious, whether you're serving it for a casual family lunch or a gala dinner party. You'll find the book begins with a words-and-photos guide to basic salad ingredients, including silhouetted shots of all the different salad leaves you can find in markets today. The salad recipes are divided into chapters on Classics and Variations (including a Classic Caesar, a Cajun Caesar with Blackened Steak, and an awesome Light Caesar topped with grilled prawns, whose dressing is enriched and thickened with yogurt instead of eggs); Chopped Salads (including a Traditional Italian Chopped Salad, a Tuna and White Bean Chopped, and a Chilli Beef Chopped Taco Salad); Robust Salads (including a Chinese Streetmarket Chicken Chow Mein Salad, a Sauteed Mushroom Salad with Goat Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and a Grilled Tandoori Chicken Salad); and Light and Refreshing Salads (including Sesame-Crusted Salmon Salad with spinach, Vietnamese Shrimp and Rice Stick Salad, and a Tropical Fruit Sunburst). Each of the more than 60 recipes is presented in easy step-by-step style. And, even though I've written many cookbooks, I was blown away by the full-page full-color photos throughout, taken for this one by Michael Grand (the same photographer who shot the acclaimed Death By Chocolate cookbook).