Salad Feasts: How to Assemble the Perfect Meal by Jess Dennison elevates the salad from a starter or side dish to center stage. One of my favorite comedians has a routine on dieting and salads. It goes something like this "A salad is not food. Oh no, a salad is a promissory note that more food will arrive. When someone asks me what I would like on my salad, I answer Haagen-Dazs." 

Salads do have a bad rap. The salads of yesterday were bland, plain and sad. Not so are those found in Salad Feasts. I could eat a salad every day for the rest of my life for dinner if they were from this book. By simply adding in a handful of toasted nuts, something sweet like sultanas, a few spoonfuls of chewy grains like barley or spelt, then a crumbling of cheese; a salad can start to look a lot more like dinner.

 

Dennison guides you through the art of creating the perfect meal with 65 foolproof recipes that turn salads into flavour-packed, midweek meals. From a quick, 10-minute Radicchio, stilton and pear salad, to the fuss-free Hot and sour chicken in gem lettuce, each recipe provides alternative substitute ingredients that are designed to make your salad-making flexible and easy, no matter the season. Including feasting menus to elevate your salads into occasion-worthy spreads, as well as a basic recipe formula to guide you, these are easy-to-assemble, delicious meals that transform ordinary salads into extraordinary feasts.

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When you are dicing those vegetables and ingredients for your salad feast, you will need a set of good knives. Swiss Diamond has made quality cookware for decades but did you know they also manufacture knives and other kitchen appliances? The three piece essentials set pictured below is a perfect gift for the new cook. I have been using these knives in my kitchen for the last few weeks and am impressed with the quality, weight and sharpness of each knife. 

Made from the highest-quality German steel and ice hardened for maximum blade strength, these knives will stay sharp through all the slicing, dicing, and mincing you throw their way. Each knife undergoes an 8 stage process of grinding and sharpening, making each cutting edge super sharp and easy to maintain.

The set includes:

  • 3.5" Paring Knife
  • 8" Chef's Knife
  • 8.5" Bread Knife

Hardie Grant is providing three copies of Salad Feasts in our giveaway open to the US, UK, AU and NZ and Swiss Diamond is generously providing one set of the three piece essential set to one of those winners in the US.


Hardie Grant is offering three copies of Salad Feasts to EYB Members in the US/UK/AU/NZ and Swiss Diamond is offering a three piece essential knife set to one US winner. Two of the entry options are to answer the following questions in the comments section of this blog post.

Which recipe in the index would you try first?

Visit Swiss Diamond's web page and leave a comment as to which of their products you would like to try.

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