The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comfort Food

Overview

In this mouth-watering guide, award-winning chef and author Leslie Bilderback serves up a hearty helping of soul-soothing, tasty dishes that curb the craving for comfort food. From casseroles to cookies, more than 300 recipes will tempt you with the family favorites you remember from the past--and will want to share with the next generation.
--Each recipe includes an icon for quick reference to help you decide which dishes best fit the occasion
--Great for autumn and winter cooking

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Author Information

Bio of Leslie Bilderback

Leslie Bilderback, Certified Master Chef for nearly 20 years, has worked at prestigious restaurants and trained hundreds of new chefs in the rigorous Le Cordon Bleu Academy Program in the California School of Culinary Arts. She is the author of three other Complete Idiot's Guides(r).

Customer Reviews

• Who doesn't love comfort food?

  Posted September 24, 2009 by Meg, Frankfort, KY

  I love to cook, and I especially love to make 'comfort foods' like stews and mac n' cheese. I am also a big fan of the Idiot's guides and find the titles misleading. Honestly, I've never purchased one of these guides that wasn't great. The tips and recipes in this book are excellent. Especially try the crab cakes, cookies, and baked macaroni and cheese! I was looking for a good basic book of comfort foods to use in the winter time and this fulfilled that need. However, do be warned that just because they are traditional comfort food recipes that does not mean that they are all simple. Some can be pretty complex but the book has a good variety and does give you good advice to help you through the more difficult recipes. All meals are covered from breakfast through dinner plus snacks and desserts. Also note that this book is not diet friendly. This is comfort food so you've got plenty of cheese and butter and all things bad for you in many of these recipes. (Just watch those portion sizes.) I am still trying new recipes from this book but must take a moment to recommend the crab cakes as the best I have found in a printed cook book and to praise the biscuits and sausage gravy.

Additional Info

Imprint

Penguin

Filesize

2.68 MB

Number of Pages

336

eBook ISBN

9781436297738