Description

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A definitive collection of over 100 tantalizing recipes—including homey potpies, baked pastas, and rich chocolate desserts, as well as lighter yet equally delicious salads, starters, and sides—for comfort food lovers everywhere.

Over 100 nostalgic recipes and new favorites are brought to life through mouthwatering photography. From meaty ribs slathered with barbecue sauce to a slice of lemon meringue pie, these luscious foods will take you back to childhood. You’ll find all the over-the-top dishes that you crave—oven-baked mac and cheese, beer-battered onion rings, devil’s food layer cake—as well as recipes that are just as flavorful and comforting but a little lighter like BLT sandwiches, panini with grilled vegetables, crab louis salad, and pancetta-wrapped scallops, and apple granola crisp.

Sample recipes include:
Warm Spinach and Bacon Salad
Egg Salad Sandwich
Grilled Cheese and Creamy Tomato Soup
Deviled Eggs
Calamari with Spicy Marinara
Fried Green Tomatoes
Chicken Piccata
Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken Enchiladas Verdes on Gluten Free Corn Tortilla
Cheesy Mushroom Risotto
Real Sloppy Joes
Shrimp and Grits
Hearty Beef Stew
Roasted Root Vegetables with Thyme
Mac and Cheese
Old-Fashioned Potato Salad
Buttermilk Biscuits
Apple Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie with Graham Cracker Crust
Devil's Food Cake with Marshmallow Frosting
Caramel Bread Pudding

About the Author

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Rick Rodgers is a renowned cooking instructor and radio and television guest chef who has written dozens of books on virtually every cooking subject, including his best-selling 101 series, and the IACP Cookbook Award nominees Kaffeehaus and The Carefree Cook. Rodgers has also written more than ten titles for a Williams-Sonoma series, as well as Tips Cooks Love by Sur La Table. Rodgers lives in the New York City area.