Show Up for Salad by Terry Romero

Show Up for Salad

by Terry Romero

Boring lunchtime salads got you down? Is your spinach wimpy? Tired of the same old kale Caesar? Vegan cookbook queen and Salad Samurai Terry Hope Romero brings more magic to your salad bar with 100 new, satisfying, mix-and-match recipes. With dozens of salad hacks and tips, and sections devoted to protein-rich toppings and croutons that will knock your socks off, Show Up for Salad will have you upping your salad game in no time--whether it's May or February or whether you shop at Whole Foods or Walmart. And what's a better pal to salad than soup? Terry also shares her favorite soup and salad combos, such as Baby Carrot Ginger Soup with Sesame Slaw and Veggie Noodle Pho with Micro Bahn Mi Salad.

Other recipes include: Juicy Grilled Summer Days Peach Salad; Garlic and Shallot Coconut Chips; All Day Breakfast Nacho Salad Bowl; Crumbly Salty Almond Cheese; Buffalo Tofu, Butternut Squash and Kale Bowl; Lazy Seitan Gyro Salad; Peruvian Potato and Red Quinoa Salad; Zucchini and Chickpea Fattoush Salad; Pizza Panzenella with Beet Prosciutto; and much more.

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5 of 5 stars

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Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Show Up for Salad is a new tutorial vegan cookbook by food and lifestyle blogger Terry Hope Romero. Due out 4th June 2019 from Hatchette on their Da Capo/Lifelong imprint, it's 304 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. The eARC/ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents, index (super handy!), and is hyperlinked throughout.
The layout is streamlined, logical, and appealing. The recipes are easy to find and the graphics and photography are well done.

The book's introduction explains a fair bit of the background and theory (where do you get your protein? doesn't eating salad leave you feeling hungry? why eat a plant based diet? isn't it difficult being vegan? etc), and then dives right into the general techniques: choosing, washing, soaking, drying ingredients, tools and other hardware, as well as sourcing more uncommon ingredients.

The recipes themselves are arranged thematically: Dressings and Toppings (and there are a massive number of alternatives), Salads, Roasted and Grilled, Pasta and Grains, and a selection of Soups. In all there are 100 recipes with a nearly infinite number of different dressings and topping combinations both savory and sweet/tangy.

We tried and absolutely loved the Buffalo Tomato Soup and Caesar Salad (5 stars), and Peking Roasted Tofu Salad (amazing). We have been trying to incorporate more plant based meals in our daily routine and this cookbook honestly has an amazing variety of tastes and cuisines made from easily sourced ingredients. There are a lot of these recipes which will satisfy non-vegetarian friends.

Really well done cookbook.

Five stars.

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

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