Food52 mighty salads: 60 new ways to turn salad into dinner-- and make-ahead lunches, too

A collection of 60 recipes for turning ordinary salads into one-dish worthy meals. Does anybody need a recipe to make a salad? Of course not. But if you want your salad to hold strong in your lunch bag or carry the day as a one-bowl dinner, dressing on lettuce isn t going to cut it. Make way for Mighty Salads , in which the editors of Food52 present sixty salads hefty with vegetables, meats, grains, beans, fish, seafood, pasta, and bread. Think shrimp and radicchio tossed in a bacon vinaigrette, a make-ahead jumble of white beans with charred lemon and fennel, slow-roasted duck and apples scattered across spicy greens. It s comforting food made captivating by simply charring one ingredient or marinating another shaving some, or roasting a bunch. But because we don t always follow recipes, there are also loose formulas for confident off-roading, as well as back-pocket tips and genius tricks for improving any old salad. Because once you know how to fix too-salty dressing, wash greens once and for all, keep an avocado from browning, and even sprout your own grains, the humble salad starts looking a lot more interesting and a whole lot more like dinner. " A collection of recipes for hearty salads features such options as charred brocolli and lentil salad, spring vegetable panzanella, grilled lobster salad with lemon-thyme butter, and curried chicken, grape and cheddar salad. Any school child can make a salad, but you're looking for something that can carry the day as a one-bowl lunch or dinner. Dressing on lettuce isn't going to cut it. The editors of Food52 present a collection of recipes for hearty salads you can use as jumping-off points for your own culinary experimentation. Leafy salads Less-leafy vegetable salads Grain & bean salads Pasta & bread salads Fish & seafood salads Meat salads.