Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Mother's Best: Comfort Food That Takes You Home Again / Review

Author: Lisa Schroeder with Danielle Centoni
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Taunton Press (November 17, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1600850170


Cookbook Description:
For 10 years, Lisa Schroeder, chef and owner of Mother's Bistro & Bar in Portland, Oregon, has been serving her guests home-style food their mother, grandmothers and great-grandmothers might have made. Now she wants to teach people how to make these dishes themselves. With Mother's Best, Schroeder offers recipes for 150 of her favorite dishes and have seasoned it generously with advice gleaned from all her years behind the stove.


My Review:
When I first opened this cookbook, it made me think of all the comfort foods my mother and grandmother made when I was young. Yum! It is filled with down-home recipes and useful hints that a mother would teach her daughter. It even tells how to cut up a whole chicken! Mother's Best has recipes like Nana's Chicken Fried Chicken; Meatloaf Gravy; Manhattan Clam Chowder; Mama's Minestrone; Grandma Mary's Meatball and Sunday Gravy; $15,000 Crab Cakes with Creole Mustard Sauce; Mother's Biscuits and Gravy; Basic Scones; Mother's Pulled Pork Sandwich; Mother's Apple Crisp; and many more recipes that remind me of my own mother's cooking, with a few subtle changes.
Mother's Best: Comfort Food That Takes You Home Again has 150 favorite, mouth-watering recipes, and most important, teaches how to cook with love. It is an inspiration and will make your family keep coming back home for more. I especially like the recipe for Chicken Caccitore.
I'm giving this cookbook 5+ stars!!
(Thank you to Ms. Noblin at The Taunton Press for my review copy.)

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Sounds like a delicious cookbook!

mrsshukra said...

First time I learned about this cookbook... looks great, ah, there's nothing like comfort food!

Kathleen said...

I LOVE recipes! This is probably a "must have" book for those of us that love to whip up yummy fare.

Blessings,
Kathleen

JD/ Jill said...

Reading about this book made me hungrey...I definitely want to look at this book a bit closer, It may go on my Christmas wish list...

Pat's Place said...

Sounds like a great Christmas gift for my gourmet-cooking kids!

Diane said...

Sounds like a great cookbook. I like to hear about "regular" food. :O)

Esme said...

I just made pancakes from the cookbook today.

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