Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession

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This was very bougie. While many of the recipes for the dressings were creative and tasty sounding, many, many ingredients for the salads themselves might be hard to source for many readers who don’t have easy and consistent access to farmers markets or…actual grocery stores themselves. Food deserts are real, after all. I loved him before he broke the melon open with his hands, but that day on the beach was one of my favorite days and stands out in my memory - one of those that makes me laugh when I'm angry and believe in my bones that it's right." Recipes are meh-it feels like the author went more towards niche/hard to source ingredients rather than doing anything revolutionary to the salad genre. What about people who want to eat more veg on a budget? This author either doesn't care or is tone-deaf enough to not realize the inaccessibility.

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I didn't even realize until I read it in a review that the book has six recipes with peas. So I obviously really like peas. They just feel like the most spring ingredient to me. I like experimenting with different kinds: raw English peas, sugar snap peas, whatever.As a side note, I wish cookbooks would state their values & biases up front. For example, do you think saturated fat is healthy or unhealthy? Do you have concerns with GMOs or food miles? Who is the intended audience (both in terms of cost & hunting down unusual ingredients)? If an author says, "Put coconut oil in everything, I only go to farmer's markets & co-ops, and I don't care where food is from" then I'll know to avoid the author. Put ¾ cup labneh in a small bowl. Use a Microplane to zest one lemon and one clove of garlic into the yogurt. Stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper. The Best Sitcoms on Netflix Right Now (October 2023) By Garrett Martin and Paste Staff October 20, 2023 | 12:00pm UPDATE: I took full advantage of paraíso mango season to make the Martha's mango and mozz salad and Y'ALL IT WAS DELICIOUS. I added a touch more honey to the vinegarette because I used a larger lemon. As Borat would say: great success! JD: I tried to give a lot of tips in the book. I put in every step of prepping the ingredients, because I don't know that everybody really understands what ‘slice on a bias’ means or why it's important. I wanted to give people as many tools as possible to be able to make the recipe they cook look like the photo, because that is such a huge part of life now. I want people to feel really proud of what they're making. And so many of these ingredients are so beautiful anyway. But if I call for something that is a little bit fussy, I'd also like the readers to understand why I'm doing that.

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RF: We’re also sharing another recipe of yours that isn’t in the book, but would be great for Passover, Natural Wine Charoset. Can you tell me about that one? Another personal favorite is the mandarins and cream, which also appears on the front cover. This recipe challenges the accepted definition of a salad: Can peeled mandarins covered with burrata, olive oil and salt really be called a salad? Apparently so. While this dish could easily get a meal off to a great start, it can also make for a delightful dessert for the ultra-sweet-averse among us.

Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession

The roasted cauliflower with almonds, anchovies, and herb recipe was what is making me throw this book out, mainly the dressing which I thought I would like (I like anchovies! I like dates! But together I found it to be disgusting!). I'm not even finishing the recipe - typing this while I have the cauliflower roasting in the oven but am 100% going to repurpose it to a completely different meal.