More than one hundred recipes this beautifully illustrated salad book has something for everyone. I have already tried several of the ones in the book and I'm pleased with the ease and ideas presented in Show Up for Salad.

Beautiful pictures. Healthy, wonderful recipes. This is a great book for those that want to up their salad game!

Show Up for Salad is full of wonderful and tasty ideas to take your salads from boring to the star of the meal. My favorite was all of the homemade salad dressings. All of the options take you beyond anything available in a bottle!

I was super excited about this book, because I am a vegan who doesn't necessarily care for salads. I found a few recipes for dressings and toppings that I want to try emulating in the future, but unfortunately this book did not make me excited to incorporate more salads into my life.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. Some really good salad ideas that I plan to use with ingredients from our garden.

I am always on the hunt for filling yet healthy salads for lunch, and I definitely found those in this cookbook. I especially loved the dressings as it gave me a variety of options to elevate my salads from drab to great.

I absolutely loved this book! I try to eat a large salad at least once daily and it's always fun to look over new recipes. This book even reviewed kitchen tools to make salad prep easy. There were plenty of recipes for salads, dressings, toppings, and even soup! Gorgeous photographs accompanied each recipe.

I look forward to trying many of these recipes, especially the Roasted Nicoise Salad, All Day Breakfast Nacho Salad Bowl, and Roasted Ratatouille Salad with Romesco Dressing.

All recipes are vegan and made with whole-foods. There are specific recipes for gluten-free add-ons and oil-free dressings. Certainly something for each and every diet!

Thank you, Hachette Books and NetGalley, for a digital ARC!

I received an ARC of this from the publisher via Netgalley this in exchange for an honest review. While this book is focused on salads for vegans you certainly don't have to follow that if you are not a vegan, which I am not! I love all salads and the recipes in this book offer many different options than those I am familiar with. I find the variety to be refreshing and I know I can always add my own protein, such as chicken, to it if I wish. I recommend this book, vegan or not!

Show Up for Salad 100 More Recipes for Salads, Dressings, and All the Fixins You Don't Have to Be Vegan to Love by Terry Hope Romero The recipe book is as delicious as it sounds. Lots of good tasty salads and dessings. Your lunch will never be boring again.

This book has a great tone: friendly, but direct. Recipes are simple and easy to follow with the understanding that different people like different vegetables. The pictures are very pretty pretty and there is a lot of information to be found within its pages. Vegan or not, it is a book most people would be happy to have.

3 out of 5

**OMG! I cannot believe that these reviews haven't been done! I am so sorry they are so late!!!**

Da Capo Lifelong Books and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Show Up For Salad: 100 More Recipes for Salads, Dressings, and All the Fixins You Don't Have to Be Vegan to Love. I was under no obligation to review this cookbook and my opinion is freely given.

This cookbook shows that there is more to a salad than just a bowl of lettuce. The recipes use plant-based proteins, dairy-free toppings, and many combinations to keep salads from being ordinary. Show Up For Salad features a great layout and beautiful photographs to entice reader to try new dishes. With great tips and hints scattered throughout, the cookbook is adaptable and usable by many with different dietary needs.

Show Up For Salad is divided into logical sections, starting with an introduction that includes tips, storage, and tools. With categories of recipes including Dressings, Pasta and Grains with Greens, Soup Meets Salad, and Croutons and Tasty Bites, readers will enjoy everything this cookbook has to offer. There are dressings to make like Sriracha Cilantro Ranch and Pomegrante Vinaigrette, salads like Roasted Tomato Chickpea Pasta Salad, and Soup Meets Salad combinations like Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Apple Walnut Salad. This way of vegan eating is accessible to many and has great nutritional value. I look forward to trying more recipes and I recommend this cookbook to readers looking to try some easy vegan cooking.

I LOVE salad! Salad is my favorite meal, hands down. This one gives so many different options that I hadn't already tried or thought of myself. I love taking salads to gatherings and this one had so many great looking ones to choose from! The pictures are absolutely beautiful. Thank you, NetGalley, for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review!

It’s very unfortunate that books that are only available in PDF expire. Although I downloaded it, I can no longer access this title and can’t download again now that it’s been archived. May I respectfully request that you make your titles available for a Kindle download so they don’t expire? Thank you.

I received an ARC of this from the publisher via Netgalley this n exchange for an honest review.

If I were a vegan, I’d love this cookbook. As it stands I’m a carnivore through and through but I still really enjoyed the recipes. There’s so many delicious sauces, food pairings, and meal ideas. It’s not only limited to salads either; there’s soups and pastas too. I loved the bit with soup with salad garnish ( I can’t wait to try the tomato soup with Caesar salad). There’s also some great food ideas I’d never thought of but I’m definitely trying, like cauliflower steaks.

All of the main ingredients are broken down, the recipes are easy to understand, there’s some beautiful pictures of the dishes and I really enjoyed it.

Imaginative and innovative, this is an excellent source of salad ideas, including creative dressings. Putting together unexpected combinations of vegetables can turn your salad into a design all your own. Excellent book.

I am not a real big salad fan but this book is starting to change my mind. The recipes are delicious and healthy. I enjoy being creative and having fun putting the salads together

Show Up for Salad by Terry Hope Romero is a new cookbook recently published to showcase Vegan Salads, Dressings, and all the Fixins. Although obviously, you don't have to be a Vegan to love these!

At first glance, you have a colorful cover with a gorgeous picture of one of the salads. Inside you have a ton of useful information to get you started. A few of the helpful chapters include:
CHOOSING & STORING GREENS & VEGGIES
FIVE KITCHEN TOOLS FOR SALAD SEEKERS
THE SALAD PANTRY: Everything but the Veggies
STASH THAT SALAD

As we get into the recipes, there is a full chapter on Dressings and Toppings. There's a wide variety to choose from and all are unique and sound tasty. A few examples that caught my eye are below.
Dressings:
SRIRACHA CILANTRO RANCH DRESSING
TAHINI FRENCH DRESSING
SULTRY PEANUT COCONUT DRESSING
OREGANO GARLIC LEMON VINAIGRETTE
POMEGRANATE VINAIGRETTE
Toppings:
MARINATED BAKED TOFU
ROASTED LEMON PEPPER CHICKPEAS
7-SPICE PEANUTS
PAN-ROASTED CHILE CORN
HERBED CORNBREAD CRUNCH

Now onto the salads! I'll definitely say this book has opened up my eyes to all the possibilities and options there are out there. No more boring salads with bagged croutons & bottled dressing for me. Here are a few examples that I'll be trying out in the near future!
Salads:
WHITE SWEET POTATO SALAD WITH SPINACH ZHUG DRESSING
ROASTED RATATOUILLE SALAD WITH ROMESCO DRESSING
ROASTED TOMATO CHICKPEA PASTA SALAD
ZUCCHINI AND CHICKPEA FATTOUSH SALAD
AVOCADO AND BLACK BEAN SALAD ON CORNBREAD TOAST
Soup Meets Salad:
BUFFALO TOMATO SOUP WITH KALE CAESAR SALAD
BABY CARROT GINGER SOUP WITH SESAME SLAW
CREAMY CAULIFLOWER SOUP WITH APPLE WALNUT SALAD

I did like the layout of this cookbook. The recipe names are in bold green letters and the ingredients and instructions are clear and concise. Not every recipe has a photo to accompany it, but the ones that do are gorgeous and look delicious. Some recipes that actually didn't catch my eye at first glance, definitely changed my mind when seeing the photo for it!

Overall I would definitely recommend this for the Vegans out there or for those who just want to incorporate more creative salads into your meals. Great variety and very customizable to your taste. If I had one issue it would be that some recipes could be time-consuming. With making dressings, toppings and the salads, for those on a time crunch some of these recipes might not work, but if you meal prep and are doing these salads as a meal then you have some great and unique recipes to try!

I want to eat more salads, but I find that I resort back to the same salad over and over again - so no wonder I can't seem to get into making more of them! Now that I have explored Show up for Salad by Terry Hope Romero I am enjoying not only the salads, but also making my own dressings and exploring ingredients that are new to me. This book has so much to offer. The cover states that this cookbook will contain 100 more recipes but it feels like SO much more because of all the different options you can use to change things up. In fact I loved the introduction that was called "Choose Your Own Salad Adventure" and that's exactly what you are getting. You choose what and how you combine things to make so many salad creations! You start out learning a lot of salad basics including; 5 kitchen tools for salad seekers, how to "stash that salad" including great advice on storing salad ingredients, advice on making and using dressings, and so much more to get you started on the right track.

Show up for Salads - The Dressings

I thought I was a fan of Ranch dressing, but this book has shown me that I have only hit the tip of what options I have available to me. The dressing section divides the recipes into; hemp dressings, sunflower seed dressings, Tahini-based creamy dressing. Here are some of the options that you can start creating; Creamy Italian Hemp Dressing, Sriracha Cilantro Ranch Dressing (Oh my, if you are a ranch fan, you have to try this one!), Sultry Peanut Coconut Dressing, Carrot Ginger Dressing, Sun-Dried Tomato Dressing, and my new favorite Cucumber Dill Dressing. Even if you have never made your own dressing the easy instructions will have you creating your own favorites in no time.

Salads to Fall in Love With

Now on to the recipes for the salads. I think the names of these recipes will do all the talking. Here are a few of my favorites and my list for the next salads to try; The Juicy Grilled Summer Days Peach Salad, Roasted Ratatouille Salad with Romesco Dressing, Avocado and Black Bean Salad on Cornbread Toast, Thai Peanut Curry with Quick Cucumber Pickles, and Forever Kale Caesar with Cheesy, Crispy Croutons.  

There are so many options, I will be using Show up for Salad a lot this summer as I explore bold new options to expand my food plans. Whether you are looking to eat more veggies, taste what dressings can be like without all the preservatives of store bought options, or looking for cool new recipes to enjoy with friends, this is the cookbook for you to explore!

I am not a vegan but that didn't stop me from wanting to check out this book. And it turns out subtitle ("...You don't have to be a vegan to love") is 100% correct! The book features a lot of unique vegan salad recipes. that appeal even to non-vegans. The author is food/lifestyle blogger Terry Hope Romero and she's also released several other vegan cookbooks. You can check out her website here: http://veganlatina.com

Some salads feature non-meat protein options like tofu or seitan but many are just all veggies & beans (in case tofu etc. isn't your thing). There is a whole chapter featuring from-scratch dressings. I've made the Zucchini and Chickpea Fattoush Salad so far and it was love at first bite. It was easy to put together with straightforward ingredients. the instructions were easy to follow. The end result was a bright, crisp, flavorful salad that I will definitely be making again. I have around a dozen other salad recipes bookmarked and I am looking forward to making them. The book is loaded with beautiful pictures of the salads that tempt me to try them all out.

It IS approaching summer and I love having a salad with most meals during the summer.


I recommend this to people (whether they are vegan or not) who are looking for some creative salads.