Comfort Cooking

Comfort Cooking is your all-seasons invitation to slow down, dig in, and savor the simple joy of a home-cooked meal. With more than 180 delicious recipes from Louise Franc, this book brings warmth and flavor to your table year-round. This comprehensive cookbook is separated into chapters on Soups, Vegetables, Fish & Seafood, Poultry, Pork, Beef, Lamb, Side Dishes, and Dessert and features recipes to comfort at any time of the day and in any season – from simple and warming traditional comfort foods like classic French onion soup, slowcooked beef stroganoff, chicken cacciatore, rich osso buco and a moreish tuna pasta bake, to impressive modern cold-weather dishes including Asian-style caramel pork, Panang chicken curry, roasted pumpkin risotto with browned butter and sage, and creamy calvados chicken, as well as a host of decadent desserts like dulche de leche and chocolate peanut butter puddings, slow-baked spiced quinces, chai-spiced slow-baked rice puddings and winter warming dried fruit compote. Whether you’re after something nourishing on a cold night or a lazy Sunday brunch that feeds the soul, these recipes are made for real life – unfussy, full of flavor, and always satisfying.