Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession

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Delicious and beautiful recipes from Martha Stewartâs personal salad chef and the self-proclaimed âBob Ross of salads.â In summary the cookbook does not contain recipes with ingredients many people can readily get their hands on or likely afford! The "What to Have on Hand, Always" is not your typical list of pantry items. Roasted pumpkin seed oil, toasted walnut oil, pomegranate molasses, yuzu kosho, saffron, za'atar- these are not easy to find items. Not to mention the cost of keeping the 10 recommended cheeses and over a dozen seeds and nuts on hand. Many of the ingredients are not readily found in our local grocery stores - puntarelle (chicory), endive and radicchio can be grown here but there is not the demand to keep them on the shelves. (I live in a city of over 100,000 people so we are not talking just one local grocery store). Perhaps if I lived in a different part of the continent, closer to where the cook book author resides, the recipes would be more relevant. 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?

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RF: We’re sharing your Matzo Fattoush recipe, which I'm so excited about. Can you tell me about the inspiration there?Let me start by saying this is a spectacularly beautiful cookbook. The photography and design are gorgeous and just invites you to get in the kitchen and start preparing. I'm eager to make a few recipes and I love how it's organized by season -- great for when you're preparing for a trip to the fresh market. I also appreciate the author's approach of food preparation being a ritual, a sort of meditation that reminds you that you're caring for your body because these ingredients taste good, not because they're "good for you." I'm always hesitant with anything salad related to see how fatphobic it is and I was pleased to read how this salad book focuses on the lovely ingredients and flavors, nothing else. The shaved radish breakfast salad with jammy eggs and dukkah was just really not to my taste, nor something I want for breakfast ever again. Her voice as a writer is privileged stoner/surfer girl who’s into spirituality. Kinda Gwyneth Lite. Depending on my mood, I found that anywhere from lovely and transcendent to eye-rolling and grating. But no matter my mood, the recipes were fabulous.

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In her first cookbook, our friend tosses salads together in a whole new way: They're irresistible, exciting, and delicious any time of day.”— Martha Stewart LivingJD: It's so funny, one of the salads that I make the most often has lettuce. There's a Little Gem salad with a creamy lemon dressing and whatever sort of herbs I happen to have around. [​Editors’ note: If you’re looking for this recipe in Salad Freak , it’s Little Gem With Creamy Dressing, Hazelnuts & Petals.] The dressing is two ingredients: jarred mayo and lemon juice, and it's so good. I love that one because it's really adaptable to whatever else you have on hand. In the summer, definitely throw some tomatoes and cucumbers on there. It's so easy and crunchy and fresh. 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!

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Where to start ... for transparency I did not make a single recipe in this book. I took this cookbook out of the local library after seeing it recommended on a local IG feed I had followed for quite some time. 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." 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. I got this book as part of my Hardcover Cook quarterly cookbook subscription and loved salads so was excited to try the recipes. Got through three recipes - two were meh and one was just vile - that it's a HARD pass from me.

And I am such a freak myself, I just want everybody else to eat the same way. I have so many friends who are like, ‘Oh, we don't eat fruits and vegetables.’ And I'm like, ‘Well, first of all, I don't understand how you're alive. But second of all, you're really missing out because they're so good.’ And I think one of my biggest accomplishments in the past few years has been convincing my parents that they should make their own salad dressing. It took 10 years for them to be like, ‘You know what? You're right, it's not that hard.’ It loses a star for me because there should be a disclaimer that this cookbook will really only work to it's fullest potential for people who live in large cities with bountiful selection of produce, spices and fresh markets/grocery store produce sections that carry *everything.* It's not suitable for anyone who lives in a food desert, for sure. That all said, while it's mango season here right now, I'll absolutely be making Martha's (yes, the Martha) Mango and Mozzarella salad. I was excited to start this book because I was hoping for some exciting takes and ideas about eating salads/vegetables more. However, while there are definitely some interesting and inspiring salads in the book, on the whole it is very un-approachable.