Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Salads & Dressings: Fun & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Making the World's Most Delicious & Healthy Salads for Yourself, Your Family & Entertaining

This is a good book. I'm not all raw but eat mostly raw foods. I eat mostly salads, so I am always looking for variety. This book gives a nice variety of salads that are easy to prepare using normal ingredients. Lots of variety of both taste and ingredients. I have tried several recipes in the book and have enjoyed them all so far. They aren't just your typical lettuce and dressing, and very little use of nuts and seeds.The book is divided into two sections: dressings and salads, with an appendix on raw basics and an alphabetic recipe list. Dressings include Cayenne Tahini, Easy Garlic Avocado, Tomato Extravaganza, Cinnamon Thyme, and Latin American Fiesta Vinaigrette. Salads include Jicama Soul Slaw, Carrot and Orange (a family favorite in my house), Asian Sesame Cucumbers, Garlic Grapefruit, Tomato Corn Salsa.I like that the raw basics are put in an appendix and not the focus of the book. The basics are basic recipes, not basic how-tos. Too many cookbooks these days include the how-to basics in all of them in detail, so I end up with a shelf full of basics books with some recipes almost as an afterthought. I don't need to read 20 books on how to julienne carrots. The focus in this book is on the recipes.My biggest complaint about the book is that it includes the use of oils. Oils are a fractionated food, not a whole food, and therefore, in my opinion, not a suitable part of a whole foods diet. Easy enough to substitute out.Based on how happy I am with the food that I make from this book I plan to order a couple of others of hers.

I have stopped buying the bottled dressings and this gave me some really good ideas for some salad dressings. They are much healthier with no preservatives or sugar. I have only tried a couple so far but I have a bunch I will be making. The salad recipes were good also and gave me a few ideas for my salads. I am not a vegan so I will add some different things to the salads.

As much as I love raw foods, and know that veggies are such an important part of any healthy diet in general, I get pretty bored with plain old salad. I love that this little gem has so many great ideas that I never would have thought of making! These delicious looking dressing recipes and creative combinations of ingredients will keep me happy in the kitchen for a long while.I like that Kristen Suzanne's books are small and topic-oriented. I sometimes tuck one in my bag when I leave the house. If I'm stuck waiting somewhere, I can pull it out, choose a couple new recipes to try and pick up the ingredients on the way home.

Many of the salads are way more complicated than I usually make, but try a fancy one, like I did and you will see why she gets fancy. I don't like most of the salad dressings on the shelves at the grocery store, so I wanted to try something new, different, etc. This book was worth it, just for the dressing recipes.

This book is just what I was looking for. I've been a raw foodist for some time and found I was eating fewer and fewer salads...because I was just bored. Put some oil and lemon juice on some greens, then repeat tomorrow...ad nauseum.No longer. This book has the most amazing, creative recipes for salads and salad dressings...and they are quick and easy to make, as well. Now my only salad dilemma is trying to choose which salad and dressing to prepare each day.

I loved this book to the degree that I have kept and filed nearly every recipe in this book. The recipes are all easy to follow and every one looks very tasty and delicious To me this book is proof that Raw is best

The recipes I've made from this book are a hit already! This is one of the best recipe books (in this category) I have bought. It's a must have for every kitchen!

I eat so many salads and you would think that would be boring, but not with this book. There are so many unique twists and the dressings are out of this world....you will never be bored!!

Just received this book. No pictures!!! Not happy about that! Recipes seem interesting. Look forward to trying! Not that many salad recipes though...

A very good structured book with creative ideas. It has no pictures but if you don t need those it is good