Review: Comfort food!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2012
My husband loves comfort food but he's really picky about it. He likes my family recipes very well and dislikes me experimenting.So testing recipes for his favorite foods is always a bit chancy.Not with this cookbook. The recipes really do taste like grandmother's cooking. They are well written and tested. I had my doubts about the chicken and dumplings because it didn't call for much liquid. It turned out to be a wonderful, thick and much like a stew with dumplings on top.The beef stew, following the authors recipe exactly comes out with super tender pieces of beef in a wonderful broth with lots flavor and chunks of vegetables.The chicken pot pie is perfect, and that recipe will replace my family recipe.I wouldn't cook from this every night, but the recipes have a lot less fat in them and more vegetables than a lot of comfort food cookbooks have, and you can adjust that further very easily to adapt less salt, less fat and more vegetables. The main course recipes don't use convenience ingredients like cream of mushroom soup. Instead soups are thickened the old fashioned way with corn starch, and the seasoning calls for herbs, spices and salt for flavor.All the meals we've tried so far have been a success.