Just Food
With summer's hot days and sticky nights, spending time in the kitchen can be a challenge. Enter greens: a nutritious, inexpensive, versatile and easily prepared ingredient. And enter Mark Bittman's Leafy Greens: a basic but extensive guide to enjoying the many benefits that greens have to offer, as the perfect kitchen companion to eating more greens. Bittman provides an A-Z list of the most delicious and commonly found greens, complete with description, buying guide, general cooking ideas, alternate names, and nutritional benefits, and peppered with simple and delicate illustrations. This resource section is followed by 120 recipes, divided into soups, salads, side dishes, light dishes, and main courses, each placing greens in the spotlight. All recipes are constructed with a short list of ingredients and a focus on clean flavors and whole foods that will excite and inspire. With old standards like Grilled Chicken Salad with Mesclun and Crispy Skin Salmon with Gingery Kale to new twists on old favorites like Shrimp Salad with Arugula Pesto and Chard Fritters, this cookbook will have the whole family looking forward to eating their greens.
