Really good sounding salads with beautiful pictures of each salad to tempt you to make it.   Each salad has a different dressing,  which you could use on a different salad if you choose.   A woman I used to work with made the best salads and the salads in this book remind me of things she would make. 
This was an ARC copy from Netgalley.

Date reviewed: August 20, 2020 (Canadian edition)
August 29 (UK edition) ... I am bi-country at the moment

When life for the entire universe and planet turns on its end and like everyone else you "have nothing to do" while your place of work is closed and you are continuing to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation, superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today. And it is way too hot to go outside, so why not sit in from of the blasting a/c and read and review books?? 

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Pam Powell, the owner of Salad Girl Organic Dressings (www.saladgirl.com), shares her best 140 seasonal salad and dressing recipes loaded with fresh organic greens, cheeses, nuts, and fruits.

With more than 70 vibrant salad recipes and more than 70 dressings to go with them, Beautiful Salads is your guide to making and eating healthy, organic, seasonal salads all year long. After a chapter on salad basics, make and enjoy these and more seasonally organized salads:
Grilled Spring Lamb Chop with Arugula Salad (Spring)
Pea Sprout and Strawberry Salad (Spring)
Nectarine and Nasturtium Salad (Summer)
Grilled Wild Salmon and Red Raspberry Salad (Summer)
Orchard Apple and Green Kale Chopped Salad (Autumn)
Kale, Sausage, and Potato Salad (Autumn)
Roots and Fruits Midwinter Salad (Winter)
Dried Fig and Cara Cara Orange Salad (Winter)

Complete with a resource guide and 60+ gorgeous colour photos, Beautiful Salads is your guide to making healthy, delicious salads through every season of the year!

There are some great recipes in here that can be made with organic or non-organic ingredients because truth be told, not all of us can afford organic foods. The salads are healthy whether your ingredients are organic and organizing them season by season is a great way to appeal to lovers of people who prefer local produce. (and produce that does not cost half of their paycheque!)

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I love emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube Millionaires/etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🥗🥗🥗

I love salads and this is the perfect cooking book for me. Great recipes, richly illustrated. I will surely try some of them.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

A great range of salads full of a variety of proteins and greens. Most of the salads are full of commonly found greens but there are also suggestions for more esoteric options like upland cress. I tried two of the salads from the summer season and found them flavorful, full of good textures, and more importantly, easy to make. There could be more photos but they accompany most of the recipes and are stunning.

Beautiful Salads by Pam Powell is a glorious selection of beautiful and easy to make salads. They look fresh and appetising. The book is easy to follow and full of wonderful photos.

The name of this book is completely accurate! This is a perfect book for someone who loves salad, but wants to step up their salad game! The salads and dressings were fancy and not your average salad. If I saw any of these on a menu for a restaurant I would promptly and excitedly order it and I look forward to trying some at home too!

**I received an e-ARC from NetGalley for an honest review**

There are a wide variety of recipes, While most of the dressings are vinaigrettes, there's also a great lemon dill caesar dressing and a cowboy ranch dressing, just to name a couple. Several of the dressings will be perfect as sauces for things like chicken fingers and appetizers as well.

I've only had this book for two days, but I've already made several of the dressings and a few of the salads. I will definitely be picking up a copy of this book for everyone I know for Christmas presents this year!

Overall, my favorite salads (so far!) are the "Grilled Veggies and Cheese Tortellini Salad with basil and sun-dried tomato vinaigrette" and the "Sweet Corn and Confetti Cabbage Slaw with creamy cilantro and cayenne pepper dressing" (this one alone would give an extra star to the book if possible!)

In conclusion, while the pictures alone are enough to make me interested in the book, the actual recipes in "Beautiful Salads" will make this book worth any price I pay to add it to my collection.

I drooled my way through this gorgeous book of 140 tasty organic salad and dressing recipes, gazing at the 60 color photos with growing hunger. 

I thought, “I’ll run to the store, stock up on ingredients, and have the Grilled Wild Salmon and Red Raspberry Salad tonight. Then on hub’s upcoming birthday, we’ll celebrate with the Harvest Tomato Panzanella Salad. Add chunky bread, a glass of vino, and voila — a feast!”

I know we’ll glow with good health as we eat our way through the scrumptious recipes, written with love by Pam Powell, founder of Salad Girl Organic Dressings. 

One thought: Replace the cover shot with the rainbow-hued Farmer’s Market Cobb Salad, awash in sweet corn, Choggia beets, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, grilled chicken, and Gorgonzola. Yum!

5 of 5 Stars

Pub Date 05 Oct 2020

Grateful to the author, Quarto Publishing Group - Harvard Common Press, and NetGalley for the early copy. Opinions are mine. 

#BeautifulSalads #NetGalley

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. A brilliant book with wonderful, mouth-watering pictures! I cannot wait to use these recipes for lunches and for tasty dinners. Also very helpful that it organises recipes by season - useful for buying ingredients and for having those different flavours as the weather changes! Never considered it before.

I have always be mildly envious of people who can construct beautiful salads and then eat them, happily. This book made that dream feel slightly more possible. The best thing about this is the introductory pages which go through the basics of different kind of salad leaf, possible additions, and importantly, how to make a salad dressing. I wouldn't have minded if this section was even longer as it felt really necessary to me, a salad beginner. 
The recipes in this sound wonderful, interesting and unique. A really great mixture of different styles of salad, but always building off the introduction's salad anatomy. The separating into seasons was a really lovely idea too, doesn't restrict you but makes you feel like you have somewhere to start looking if you're trying to pick a salad recipe. 
One of my pet peeves in a cookbook is if the picture isn't included. There were a few double page recipe spreads with no photos but not enough to upset me. There is a level of American LA farmers' market pretentiousness that I struggle with in some of the ingredient lists. But that's probably because I'm a British university student whose most extravagant food purchase is usually parma ham - it's good to have some aspiration in a recipe book though so can't complain.

All in all, a solid recipe book with some really lovely touches - I loved the crouton shape template!!

Date reviewed: August 20, 2020

When life for the entire universe and planet turns on its end and like everyone else you "have nothing to do" while your place of work is closed and you are continuing to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation,  superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today. And it is way too hot to go outside, so why not sit in from of the blasting a/c and read and review books??  BTW - stay home and save lives!!!!!!!! No tan is worth dying for.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Pam Powell, the owner of Salad Girl Organic Dressings (www.saladgirl.com), shares her best 140 seasonal salad and dressing recipes loaded with fresh organic greens, cheeses, nuts, and fruits.

With more than 70 vibrant salad recipes and more than 70 dressings to go with them, Beautiful Salads is your guide to making and eating healthy, organic, seasonal salads all year long. After a chapter on salad basics, make and enjoy these and more seasonally organized salads: 
Grilled Spring Lamb Chop with Arugula Salad (Spring)
Pea Sprout and Strawberry Salad (Spring)
Nectarine and Nasturtium Salad (Summer)
Grilled Wild Salmon and Red Raspberry Salad (Summer)
Orchard Apple and Green Kale Chopped Salad (Autumn)
Kale, Sausage, and Potato Salad (Autumn)
Roots and Fruits Midwinter Salad (Winter)
Dried Fig and Cara Cara Orange Salad (Winter) 

Complete with a resource guide and 60+ gorgeous colour photos, Beautiful Salads is your guide to making healthy, delicious salads through every season of the year!

There are some great recipes in here that can be made with organic or non-organic ingredients because truth be told, not all of us can afford organic foods.  The salads are healthy whether your ingredients are organic and organizing them season by season is a great way to appeal to lovers of people who prefer local produce. 

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I love emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🥗🥗🥗

The author begins her book with clear messages about shopping local and sustainability and even though I wasn't on board with all of her tips I appreciated the attention to detail. The photos are unfussy and presented in a way that makes her recipes accessible- these are eyecatching dishes that anyone can make at home. I will say that while there is a wide variety on offer I did find a heavy reliance on fruit and sugar or honey, which was surprising. I like sweet and savoury now and then but these recipes skewed too sugary for me to use very often. I would have loved to see some more ketogenic friendly options, it's a community that thrives on hearty salads.

Pam Powell breaks down salad by season in this wonderful cookbook. Each season has numerous salad recipes followed by vibrant photos that truly live up to the title "Beautiful Salads".

The pictures in this book are beautiful. The salads are creative and original. And the recipes were delicious. I tried several of the recipes and they were really good!

This cook book is pitched at just the right level: the ideas are fresh and innovative, but the ingredients are realistic and the sort of thing you won’t find it hard to find without having to make special shopping trips.
Each salad has a vinaigrette or other dressing.
I also liked the instructions which are clearly laid out: for example, the mozzarella and shredded kale salad with basil and sun-dried tomato vinaigrette, where the instructions for each part of the recipe are laid out in clear stages, combined at the end.
The photos are nice too - you can see what your salad will look like and be tempted to try a recipe. 
Some of the American ingredients will need translating - Arugula is rocket - but this isn’t a problem.
All in all, an inspiring salad cookbook that’s fresh and tempting without being over-complicated.

The recipes in this book show some beautiful salads with ingredients that are far from your boring regular salads. I can’t wait to see if the flavor combinations taste as good as they look!

The cover doesn't do this aptly named book justice. It is really packed with beautiful salads, divided by season, that are easy to make, nutritious and tasty. The author got her start at Madden's Resort in Northern Minnesota and now runs an organic farm and salad dressing business. She's passionate about using healthy, sustainable, organic ingredients and she really knows how to sell a salad. They're all gorgeous and use relatively few ingredients, with a focus on what's in season as the year goes on.

There are color photos for most of the salads, and they're gorgeous. I'd order just about any of them in a restaurant (with the exception of those featuring meats like lamb). There are different salad dressings for each of them, but they're easy to assemble and she teaches you at the start how to make your own simple dressing and how to emulsify it to make it creamy. The recipes are suitable for meat eaters and vegetarians, and most would also be suitable for paleo and gluten free folks (sometimes with a few tweaks for paleo). A number of the recipes are also dairy free and vegan, though animal products are used fairly often. No nutritional information is provided.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Pam Powell has given us the most Amazing Refreshing and Delightful recipes in her book  “Beautiful Salads”  This is my favorite salad recipe book that will be used over and over . The BEAUTIFUL photos and easy to follow recipes are impressive.  I can’t wait to have this book in my kitchen and  many will definitely be purchased as gifts. 
Thank You Pam for giving your heart and soul in to this book!❤️

Beautiful Salads by Pam Powell is a true treat for those of us that are bored with ordinary salads!  
The book has something for every salad lover. It is organized by season and the recipes are gorgeous to look at. A few definitely caught my attention and I can’t wait to try- Asian Summer Slaw, Spicy Grilled Shrimp and Strawberry, Citron Roasted Brussel Sprouts, and Memorial Day Quinoa are ones I’m going to be trying ASAP. 
It’s nice to have a dedicated cookbook just for salads and I would highly recommend this one if you are looking to up your salad game. 

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book.

This made me want to eat salad. Some great tasty looking photos. Even kale and cuscus is made edible here.