Food52 mighty salads: 60 new ways to turn salad into dinner--and make-ahead lunches, too, hardcover/james ransom

A collection of 60 recipes for turning ordinary salads into one-dish worthy meals.

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 isnt going to cut it.

Make way for Mighty Salads , 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.

Its comforting food made captivating by simply charring one ingredient or marinating another--shaving some, or roasting a bunch.

But because we dont 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.