100 Great Salad Dressings (Paperback)

by Sally Griffiths (Author), Simon Wheeler (Photographer)
Key Phrases: mix thoroughly with the mayonnaise, tablespoons walnut oil, season with salt

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Summer brings an abundance of leafy greens from the garden, just begging to be turned into refreshing salads. Salads also fill the bill on sultry afternoons when the cook doesn't want to sweat over a hot stove. Yet many people are still afraid to make their own dressings, relying too much on manufactured bottled versions. Sally Griffiths and her coauthor remedy this with 100 Great Salad Dressings. To make tasty dressings, the cook first must know the properties of the oils, vinegars, and seasonings that the dressings comprise. So Griffiths lays out the differences among oils, particularly the properties of different olive oils and their cousins, the nut oils. She does the same for vinegars, noting the usefulness of flavored varieties and of balsamic vinegar. Her recipes for salad dressings start with simple vinaigrette variations and go on to highly specialized ones such as Passion fruit and Lemon Balm Dressing and Caraway and Smoked Bacon Dressing. Mark Knoblauch
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Product Description
A hundred sensational international dressings for any type of salad, hot or cold, from Anchovy Mayonnaise to Green Herb Vinaigrette.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Cassell (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841881694
• ISBN-13: 978-1841881690
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #369,762 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kitchen Essential, February 23, 2006

By	Thomas G. - See all my reviews

Salads have become a much more important part of our diet, since my wife and I have made a commitment to start eating healthier. The problem was that the ingredients in most bottled salad dressings read like a toxic waste dump. They also lack any real taste to speak of. So I bought Sally Griffiths book, "100 Great Salad Dressings" and thought I'd give making our own dressings a shot. The recipes are idiot-proof. Anyone can follow them. And, so far, we have gone through nearly a dozen of them and haven't hit a dud yet. We've got about fifty cookbooks of various sorts around here and "100 Great Salad Dressings" has become one of the top three most used.