I bought this book just by chance: since like any worker in England I mostly feed on sandwiches and salads for lunch - and I wanted something new and tasty but essentially home made.
Well this book is the answer: you can recreate the gorgeous Pret recipes at home for you own lunch and at little expense ...
It is small and compact with no fancy pictures but believe me, what a feast!
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I thought this book was really well priced and great value for money. Covering 200 recipes, it has some excellent ideas for both summer AND winter. It's easy to leaf through the pages and get some good ideas, even if you don't follow the recipes per se. Although a bit overwhelming as there are no specific sections for meats vs vegetarian salads, and although the beautiful pictures do not immediately follow respective recipes, it is a great book when you are first starting out in salad preparation and need to get lots of ideas.
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The dressings described in this book are so so straightforward to make and are not just for salads! All you seem to need is a few ingedients and a jam jar to shake it all up in! Each dressing has very helpful suggestions of things that it would go really well with...these include everything from your usual everyday foods such as lettuce, pasta and salmon through to the more exotic, such as scallops, sea bass, goat's cheese and guinea fowl. Great for dinner parties! The variety of dressings you can make from this book is fantastic. Whatever you want to cook, there's a dressing in this book that will make it incredibly special. Check out the Blueberry Dressing as a suggested accompaniment to chicken, avacado or asparagus. The book is really ... Read More:
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