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) [Hardcover]

Editors of Cooking Light Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Series: the Cooking Light.cook's ESSENTIAL RECIPE COLLECTION | Publication Date: March 1, 2007

As a part of the The Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection, this cookbook promises you outstanding, foolproof recipes that are approved by our Test Kitchens and readers alike. From simply tossed sides to hearty entrées, these salads are sure to become your tried-and-true favorites.

In this volume of The Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection, you’ll find:

Over 50 essential kitchen-tested salad recipes. From Simple Green Salad to upscale Fennel, Parsley, and Radicchio Salad with Pine Nuts and Raisins, Cooking Light Salad offers you over 50 of Cooking Light magazine’s best-of-the-best salad recipes. You’ll find basics like our Creamy Caesar Salad plus more exotic fare, such as Pork Fattoush. Dig into Classic Potato Salad at your next family gathering. Or pack a healthy to-go lunch of Roasted Chicken and Bow Tie Pasta Salad. Better yet, enjoy Strawberry-Kiwi Salad with Basil as a refreshing dessert—you’ll love its sweet, creamy dressing.

Over 100 bold and bright full-color photos. Each essential recipe is accompanied by a vivid full-page color photograph, along with an additional image and information on a particular ingredient or technique that’s crucial to the recipe.

Complete nutritional information for each recipe. In your quest to eat smart, be fit, and live well, you’ll find the complete nutritional analysis for each recipe amazingly helpful. Looking for a low-calorie main dish? Try Thai Beef Salad. Need less sodium? Tropical Fruit Salad is ideal as a refreshing side dish. Or maybe you want to increase your fiber intake. If so, Greek Dinner Salad is a good choice.

A complete guide to all things salad.

Not exactly sure what frisée is? Wondering which vinegar is best for your dressing? Then check out our Cooking Class. A salad greens and lettuces glossary defines the greens used in this book, and it tells you how to select and prepare them. Plus, we give you the scoop on oils and vinegars. And our favorite dressings will turn any bed of greens into a gourmet salad.

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About the Author

Launched in 1987, Cooking Light is America’s favorite food magazine. Every month, more than 11 million readers turn to it for the freshest ideas in food and fitness to help them eat smart, be fit, and live well.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House; 1 edition (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084873159X
• ISBN-13: 978-0848731595
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Vegetables & Vegetarian > Salads

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great addition to my collection!, August 13, 2009

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Lisa "Nose in a Book" Martin (Northern CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 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) (Hardcover)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book!, October 4, 2009

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Amani "Wishes" (Florida & Kuwait) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 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) (Hardcover)

wether its chicken, fish, or even fruit, as long as you can make it into a salad you will find it in this very useful book. I loved the fruit salad section which is a A+ for this book because most salad books don't include them

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Guide to Salads, January 21, 2011

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Malinda L. Mcdonald (Gaithersburg, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Light Salad (Hardcover)

Purchased as Christmas present for my daughter's boy friend. He seemed to like it, since he is quite a cook. I really can't say much, other than it was appreciated by the person who received it. The format is nice, in that it easily lies open on the counter for quick reference.