Delicious Salad Meals: Main Dish Salads Dressed Up with Breads and Sweets to Make a Complete Meal (Dorothy Jean's Home Cooking Collection) [Hardcover]

Dot Vartan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2005 | Series: Dorothy Jean's Home Cooking Collection

Ideally suited to today's concept of lighter and healthier eating, this guide provides recipes with the salad as the main course by featuring poultry, meat, fish, and pork combined with vegetables, lettuce, grains, and pasta to create a healthy, hearty dish. Recipes for accompaniments, such as muffins, biscuits, and rolls combine with suggestions for desserts, including cookies and fruit, to help round out the dinner menu. In addition, a chapter on salad parties provides recipes for eight different gatherings—from a barbecue or a picnic to a football party—where a main dish can be perfectly complemented with suggestions for side salads. Easy-to-prepare recipes appeal to all levels of home cooks any season of the year. With a variety of simple, healthy recipes, readers are sure to have smiles at the dinner table all year round.

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About the Author

Dot Vartan is the author of Delicious Fruit Desserts, Is It Soup Yet?, and Mad About Muffins. She graduated from the School of Culinary Arts at Kendall College in 2002. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Dorothy Jean Publishing, Inc. (June 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884627110
• ISBN-13: 978-1884627118
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,139,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, versatile cook book., May 16, 2006

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Pamela Fogel "Business woman who likes great ... (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delicious Salad Meals: Main Dish Salads Dressed Up with Breads and Sweets to Make a Complete Meal (Dorothy Jean's Home Cooking Collection) (Hardcover)

Dot Vartan's latest cookbook, "Delicious Salad Meals," is a must for any cook who needs ideas for light, delicous meals that are not complicated to prepare. What I like most about the book is the organization, which divides the salad/meal recipes by type, e.g., poultry, meat, seafood, etc., and then once you choose a recipe, side dishes are given that complement to complete a meal. The recipes are delicious, easy to follow, well written, and include ingredients that are not hard to find at the grocery store. A fine resource for weekday meals for those who want to put together a healthy meal for the family after a day at work. The book provides great ideas for party salads, too! And I've given many copies away as hostess gifts. A versatile, affordable cook book that I recommend highly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, easy to follow recipes, June 13, 2006

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J. Rudolph - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delicious Salad Meals: Main Dish Salads Dressed Up with Breads and Sweets to Make a Complete Meal (Dorothy Jean's Home Cooking Collection) (Hardcover)

I have all of Dot Vartan's cookbooks, including Mad About Muffins and Is it Soup Yet and like those books, this book has great, easy to make (and follow) recipes. I especially like the meal planner; this way I don't have to think too much! I highly recommend this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, delicious salads, April 9, 2006

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Julia A. Fischer "Julia Szabo" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delicious Salad Meals: Main Dish Salads Dressed Up with Breads and Sweets to Make a Complete Meal (Dorothy Jean's Home Cooking Collection) (Hardcover)

I love the way the book is organized into 5 chapters. Each recipe is easy to read and in almost every case, I already have all of the ingredients on hand. It's also nice having the recipes for bread, muffin and dessert accompaniment right there on the next page.