cover image Simply Salads: More Than 100 Creative Recipes You Can Make in Minutes from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-To-Find Ingredients

Simply Salads: More Than 100 Creative Recipes You Can Make in Minutes from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-To-Find Ingredients

Jennifer Chandler. Rutledge Hill Press, $24.99 (249pp) ISBN 978-1-4016-0320-5

First-time author Chandler proves, with over 100 winning recipes, that you don't have to go to a restaurant to get a top-notch salad that's healthy and flavorful. Using bagged, pre-washed salad blends as a base, Chandler whips up everything from a traditional Steakhouse Wedge Salad with blue cheese, bacon and tomatoes to Margarita Chicken Salad, Thai Beef Salad and Lobster Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette. Even if readers never make the salads, the book's numerous dressings and slaws deserve a look, as do the bean, rice and pasta-based dishes. With something for every salad lover, Chandler's collection is bound to inspire.