Not only are these salads beautiful to look at, they taste gorgeous too. This great collection will have you inspired to try bee salads, with seasonal ingredients, so you can enjoy eating healthily all year round.

Thanks so much to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me access an advance copy of this book in exchange for my feedback.

I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. This is full of great recipes you must try.

Are you always wondering why salads made by other people are so much better?! Then you need this book! It will open your tastebuds to a number of delicious new salad recipes, yum.!

Great and delicious recipes for when you want something healthy but are tired of boring salads. Not only are the salad recipes beautiful they are also filling

Seasonal salad making at its best. With beautiful photographs and well-presented instructions, a valuable addition to any cook's shelf.

This book is full of delicious sounding and looking recipes. I really appreciated how there was a dressing recipe for each salad rather than just a bank of recipes at the end. It also includes pretty unique recipes, which is a hard thing to come by for salads. The recipes range from fairly simple to a little more complicated, but nothing even a beginner couldn't do.

A lovely book of salads but not the sort of recipes I was looking for, I was looking for a book with more everyday ingredients

Fun Salads All Year Round

The salads in this book are indeed beautiful, as the title states! While not every salad has a photo, nearly every one does. Fresh produce in combinations can be so colorful, and these salads are. The book is organized by seasons, starting in spring. Each recipe has a unique salad dressing—usually a vinaigrette, though there are a few creamy ones. I love making homemade salad dressings, so I liked these often creative ones. Some will certainly make it into my repertoire. This book isn't just about fruit, vegetable, legume, and grain salads. A few recipes each season include meat and seafood as well. As is typical of most homemade salads, most are not very complex or require a lot of ingredients—though if you aren’t accustomed to making your own dressings, they will take more time than you are used to. And sometimes you will need to do something that takes time, like roasting beets. You will need a good knife, though, to cut up all the vegetables and fruits. I was somewhat amused by a spring salad recipe that featured radish. The author states to get four different types of radishes. I live in a relatively small city in southern Oregon, and I don't think I've ever seen more than two different types of radishes at my grocery store, red and daikon. As it is autumn when I am reviewing this, I flipped to that section first. Of the 17 autumn recipes, four of them include pears! I think that is perhaps too many pear recipes! Autumn is a great shoulder season for a variety of fruits and vegetables, and I would have loved to have seen more of that abundance reflected in that section. Still, all in all, I found this to be an inspiring cookbook. If you enjoy salads during any season as I do, you may very well like the ideas in this cookbook as well.

These recipes are yummy and beautifully photographed. I really enjoyed the seasonal approach to the recipes.

The Beautiful Salads cookery book provides over seventy recipes that do more than just limp green leaves that are often called a 'salad' at times!

The book is divided into four sections covering each seasons and has a useful introduction explaining the different salad leaves you can get and other ingredients you need in the cupboard such as oil, herbs, seeds and more. The recipes are a mix of vegetarian, meat or fish. Although they are split by season, with the advent of all year round growing you could probably make these any time of the year.

Not all the recipes come with a colour photograph, the measurements are in imperial and some ingredients have just a 'c' next to them which like another book I recently reviewed I assume means cups, but again I couldn't find a key to confirm that. It also mentions setting a grill to 500-550 degrees F, but it's not something we have at that temperature in the UK and a number of ingredients that I don't recognise such as pummelo juice, asiago cheese or specific brands (though I guess they can be substituted).

The resources section at the rear provides a list of American websites for cheese and chocolate and green resources.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

Almost everybody loves salads; Busy cooks often used the kind that comes packaged in the grocery store, but since they are fairly easy to make, many cooks make them from scratch at home. One of the problems with salads is coming up with new or innovative ways to make them exciting. Pam Powell, who owns a salad dressing company and has a successful blog called Salad Girl, is the author of an excellent cookbook, Beautiful Salads: Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season. This cookbook is quite possibly the only salad cookbook ever needed because there are so many mouthwatering ideas. The salad recipes are divided into seasons, so it’s easy to find something to make according to what is fresh and in season.

Not your pedestrian salad book, this excellent book includes dozens of unique seasonal salads – fruit, vegetable, full meal including meats, poultry, cheese, etc. - using modern organic ingredients with mouthwatering dressings that not only go with the salads published, but are also good to have around to dress everyday salads. This book is worth having just for the variety of salad dressings alone.

If you’re looking for something extra special to serve to company, or just something different to serve for dinner, you can’t go wrong with this cookbook. The instructions are succinct and easy-to-follow, the ingredients are mostly easy-to-find in regular grocery stores, and there are several beautiful photographs. Most grocery stores feature fancy types of lettuce and sprouts; this book has recipes for all of those little known ingredients that can make our salads exciting.

All told, this is an excellent cookbook for salad lovers. It will get plenty of use in households that love salad, and the unique dressings are a real bonus.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I have really enjoyed some of these salad recipes. Lately we have done the peach salad with the peach vinaigrette. Off the charts good! As for the cookbook it self the recipes are creative and look delicious. They really bring some diversity to your regular old salads. It's a keeper!

I love eating a delicious salad to help get nutrients in my body and also to lose weight (or maintain an ideal weight when I am comfortable with where I am at again) but salads can get so boring if you eat the same kinds over and over. I was incredibly excited to see a cookbook dedicated entirely to different salad offerings. There were some mouth watering recipes in Beautiful Salads that I can not wait to give a try!

These salads are definitely beautiful! As someone who is trying to incorporate more salads into my diet, I can't wait to try these recipes out.

I often find cookbooks have either bland salads or, in some cases, no salads at all! I decided to check out Beautiful Salads to fill that void in the kitchen and I was not disappointed. The salads in this cookbook are so delicious, even my niece loves to eat them! The ingredient choices are creative, and the photos are amazing quality. I never thought I'd be craving a salad before looking at some of these images, but they look so tasty! I'm slowly working my way through most of the recipes, and they've been total hits with my family. Well worth trying some out!

Great book for Salad inspirations!
I love salads and that can get very repetitive, relying on the same things, while this book is divided by season, so you can also mix things up depending on what is in season. I am definitely looking forward to trying some recipes. For example, the Watermelon with feta salad looks amazing and it is a combination I love!

As a vegan this book was a great choice for me to request. There book is divided into season and matches the salads with each one. I really enjoyed it, the salad dressing accompaniment with the salad has some great recepies. Really like this little book.

This was a beautiful cookbook with stunning pictures. Most of the recipes were simple and easy to make too. Who knew a salad could look so good?

Beautiful Salads by Pam Powell is a beautifully dedicated salad book! I tend to like having a go-to book for salads. Most of the recipes have a gorgeous colored photograph which makes you want to try them all!!! The author also has her own website at www.saladgirl.com. On her website, Pam shares a lot of recipes and you can also order some of her dressings! I think these would be great Christmas presents for the guy/gal that has everything!!

The recipes are organized by season which I liked because the ingredients called for is currently available in stores. Most salads have their own dressings and I liked the variety provided and the ease of making. The author explains each type of lettuce that is called for in the recipes and I learned about a few I've never heard of before!

The recipe I decided to start with is called Memorial Day Quinoa Salad and it was bursting with flavor and easy to put together. The only ingredient I had to buy was the cherries because I didn't have them on hand. If all the recipes are this good, I know i'll be serving more salads to my family in the future.

Overall, I really liked this cookbook and would recommend it to any salad lover!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC of this cookbook in exchange for my review.

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Beautiful Salads is a style and recipe guide for organic dressings and salad by Pam Powell. Due out 5th Oct 2020 from Quarto on their Voyageur imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in hardcover format.

The book is laid out in a logical and easy to understand way. The introductory content covers ingredients and preparation. The following sections contain the recipes arranged thematically by season: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each season contains approximately 20 recipes (75 total by my count).

Ingredient measurements are supplied in American measurements only. There wasn't a conversion chart for metric measures included in the eARC provided for review. Nutritional information is also not included. Extra tips or recipe alternatives are listed in sidebars with the recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly straightforward and are made with easily sourced ingredients. Many are very simple, none of them are overly complex. The book does include an index and resource list.

The photography is clear and abundant; most of the recipes are illustrated, and the photographs which are included are crisp and well done. Serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate. In fact, the photography was one of the highlights of this cookbook. The other huge plus for me was the varied and delicious dressings. There are so many variations on vinaigrette and dressing that just that aspect of the collection will keep readers busy for ages.

This is a large collection of recipes and even allowing for the fact that some of them are similar to others in the same category, this will keep salad fans going for ages. These are well developed and attractive dishes, beautifully presented and full of tasty raw and unprocessed ingredients and enhanced with dressings which run the gamut from traditional to trendy.

We're definitely going to try more of these. Well written book, tasty food.

Five stars. This is a solid recipe book which will be used. It would make a superlative housewarming gift to a friend or family member - college student, new graduate, newlyweds, kids flying the nest, etc. Salads can fill so many roles, from side dish to main meal. I've tested several of these recipes as a work lunch in my bento box and they work very well for that purpose also.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.