Salad Perfection
Salad Perfection by Belinda Jeffery is one of a series of cookbooks with a DVD cooking course included. The DVD is about 75 minutes long and covers 5 of the 48 recipes included in this book.
About the Author: Belinda Jeffery is an award winning TV food presenter, author, restaraunt reviewer, food editor and cooking teacher. She has written 2 cook books as well as the DVD series featured here. She is a personality on ABC Radio, and also judges for various food industry awards. About the Book: The first thing about Salad Perfection are the pictures! Each recipe has 2-3 small pictures showing some preparation and a large mouth-watering picture of each completed dish. Each one looks so good it's hard to choose which one to make! Each recipe also lists preperation time, cooking time, and nutritional value per serving. The recipes also give metric and imperial measures for all ingredients. The ingredients are quite fancy, but the methods for preparation are simply explained. The DVD included has the author preparing 5 dishes in a cooking school type of setting, with lots of good tips as she shares her expertise. Table of Contents: 1-Introduction The introduction is divided into two parts: Introduction To Salads, and Salad Tips and Skills. Introduction to salads has a brief summary followed by a list of some of the basic lettuces and onions with pictures to help identify the different varieties. Salad Tips and Skills covers storing and washing of greens and vegetables, as well as other tips such as deseeding tomatoes. 2-Appetizers Recipes: Watercress and Pear Salad Witlof Salad with Pecans Favorite Caesar Salad **Featured on Salad Perfection DVD**
Jumbo Shrimp with Mango Salsa Rock Lobster and Smoked Ocean Trout Salad Broiled Goat Cheese Salad Armenian Stuffed Tomato Salad Carrot and Shrimp Tapas Salad Melon and Onion Salad
Recipes: Asian Chicken Bok Choy Salad Bean and Chickpea Salad with Artichokes and Hazelnuts Gingered Almond Broccoli Salad with Cellophane Noodles Warm Lima Bean and Prosciutto Salad with Rocket**Featured on Salad Perfection DVD**
Tuscan Tomato and Bean Salad Herbed Seafood Salad Tuna Barley Nicoise Summer Salad of Broiled Chicken, Spinach and Mango Potato and Smoked Sausage Salad
Warm Steak Salad with Papaya and Spanish Onion Ocean Trout with Palm Sugar Sauce and Noodle Salad 4-Side Salads Recipes: Cabbage and Chinese Noodle Salad
Russian Cabbage Salad Calabrian Salad Roasted Beet, Orange and Fennel Salad Green Bean Salad
Kiwifruit and Watercress Salad Crisp Celery Salad Tomato Salad Napolitano Tortilla Salad Mexicana
Bell Pepper Salad Spinach Grapefruit Salad Hot Brussel Sprouts with Horseradish Sauce 5-Buffet
Recipes: Marinated Chicken and Pear Salad Pasta Salad with Sugar Snap Peas and Salami Lobster Pineapple Salad Japanese Marinated Salmon, Cucumber and Daikon Salad**Featured on Salad Perfection DVD** Asparagus and Baby Beans with Hazelnut Dressing Shrimp and Grape Salad Sweet Potato and Peanut Salad Thai Rice Salad Thai Beef Salad with Chili Lime Dressing**Featured on Salad Perfection DVD** Warm Caramelized Onion and Herbed Potato Salad**Featured on Salad Perfection DVD** Tropical Shrimp and Papaya Salad 6-Glossary This section covers a wide variety of definitions for different cooking terms such as baste, julienne, and dice. 7-Conversions A handy section for metric and imperial conversions of dry and liquid measures, as well as oven temperatures. 8-Index Standard alphabetical index of salads and ingredients.
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