Best Ever Salads

This collection of over 200 recipes shows how much more there can be to a salad than a handful of lettuce and a few tomatoes. In this cookbook, there are salads for every meal, occasion and season, from a simple, tangy Carrot and Orange Salad to the elaborate San Francisco Salad and Tuna Carpaccio. In addition to classic favorites such as Caesar Salad and Salad Nicoise, cooks will also find a deluge of recipes for other delectable salads such as a Spinach and Roast Garlic Salad, and Warm Fava Bean and Feta Salad. Along with the unbeatable simplicity of Apple Coleslaw and Arugula and Cilantro Salad, there are also dishes with exciting and tantalizing combination, such as Hot Coconut, Shrimp and Papaya Salad, Grilled Chicken with Lavender and Herbs, and Goat Cheese Salad with Buckwheat, Fresh Figs and Nuts. Summer is often thought of as the salad's natural season, but with the recipes in this book cooks can expand their salad eating year round, using ingredients such as sweet potato, french beans, plaintains, tofu, chicken livers, prociutto, smoked trout, couscous, eggplant and much, much more. From warm salads to fruit salads, from a delicious appetizer and side salad to an extravagant main course, "Best-Ever Salads" will provide cooks with the perfect salad experience.