Food52 Mighty Salads

<p><b>A collection of 60 recipes for turning ordinary salads into one-dish worthy meals. </b></p><p>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.</p><p>Make way for <i>Mighty Salads</i> 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.</p><p>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.</p>