Cooking Fresh: Food52 Mighty Salads

It could be argued that one does not need a recipe to make a salad—although, if one wants a salad to carry the day as a one-bowl dinner, dressing on lettuce isn’t going to cut it. Make way for Mighty Salads, in which the editors of Food52 present 60 salads hefty with vegetables, meats, grains, beans, fish, seafood, pasta and bread. But one doesn’t always follow recipes, so there are also loose formulas for confident off-roading, as well as back-pocket tips and genius tricks for improving any old salad.