Mom's Comfort Food: Meals, Sides, and Desserts to Bring Warmth and Contentment to Your Table

by Joyce Klynstra, Laura Klynstra (Photographer)

Overview

Many happy memories and traditions can be stored in a mother or grandmother’s recipe box. Treat yourself and those you love to these time-honored recipes and create your own joyful memories.

In the tradition of friends and family swapping recipe cards, Mom's Comfort Food pulls together more than fifty years of cherished meals, sides, and desserts that will bring warmth and contentment to your table. These easy-to-make dishes will inspire fellowship around fabulous food.

You will find a delicious, down-to-earth recipe for every gathering, special occasion, and everyday meal including:

• Avocado Crustless Quiche
• Beer Bread
• Creamy Slow Cooker Potato Soup
• Chicken Tortilla Casserole
• Canned Stewed Tomatoes
• Dutch Butter Bars
• Pecan Joy Pie

Many seasonal choices will help you take advantage of fresh, local produce from creating strawberry and rhubarb desserts to preserving tomatoes and sweet corn. All recipes are sure to bring smiles to everyone gathered around your table. With a photograph for every recipe, this book celebrates the beauty of hearty, home-cooked comfort food.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680993462
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Joyce Klynstra has loved cooking since her teenage years, which she spent working in a family-run, drive-in restaurant. She continued her passion for cooking with a wedding cake business, hosting church dinners, and working in hospitality with her Army husband. She takes joy in fellowship and food with the many loved ones she has acquired in her seventy-three years. She lives in Lansing, Michigan. This is her first book.

Laura Klynstra, Joyce’s daughter, is a freelance graphic designer and photographer focusing on book covers and illustrated book interiors. Before running her business, she worked as art director at Hyperion Books and at HarperCollins.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Favorites 2

Appetizers

Asian Meatballs 6

Bleu Cheese Artichoke Appetizer 8

Veggie Pizza 9

Chili con Queso 10

Joy's Olive Spread 13

Taco in the Round 14

Guacamole Dip 17

Breads

Six-Week Bran Muffins 21

Banana Bread 22

Beer Bread 25

Easy Biscuits 26

Blueberry Muffins 29

Bread Machine Honey Oatmeal Bread 30

Zucchini Bread 33

Breakfast

Crustless Avocado Quiche 37

Baked French Toast 38

Breakfast Pizza 40

Buttermilk Pancakes with Blueberry Sauce 43

Pig in Blankets 45

Sausage Egg and Cheese Breakfast Braid 46

Soups

Dutch Pea Soup 50

Creamy Slow Cooker Potato Soup 51

Chicken Soup 54

Broccoli Soup 55

Vegetable Beef Soup 56

Butternut Squash Soup 59

Caledonia Band Booster Chili 60

Dutch Meatball Soup 63

Polish Kielbasa Slow Cooker Soup 64

Beef, Beer, and Barley Soup 65

Vegetable Cheese Soup 67

Potato Cheese Soup 69

Main Dishes

Wet Burritos 73

American Goulash 74

Swiss Cheese Chicken and Mushroom Bake 76

Chicken Pot Pie 79

Leah's Chicken Squares 80

Chicken Tater Tot Casserole 83

Tortilla Chicken Casserole 84

Corn Dogs $

Creamed Asparagus on Biscuits $

Creamed Chicken on Biscuits $

Swedish Meatballs $

Meat Loaf $

Spaghetti Pie $

Upside-Down Pizza $

Salads & Sides

French Dressing 101

Strawberry Walnut Salad with Poppyseed Dressing 102

Make-Ahead Layered Chicken Salad 105

Pasta Asparagus Salad 107

Meme's M-50-Drive-In Potato Salad 108

Arborio Rice with Asparagus 110

BBQ Onions 113

Barb's Green Rice 115

Cauliflower & Cheese Sauce 116

Cheesy Potatoes 118

Slow Cooker Creamed Com 119

Corn Cake 120

Honeyed Carrots 122

Green Beans 123

Refried Beans 124

Macaroni and Cheese 127

Cookies & Bars

Aunt Margaret's Sugar Cookies 131

Ma's Chocolate Chip Cookies 132

Brownies 134

Rhubarb Bars 137

Dutch Butter Bars 138

Blonde Brownies 140

Almond Bars 143

Cakes

Apple Cake 146

Banana Cake 148

Carrot Pineapple Cake 151

Weddrng Pound Cake 152

Decorator Frosting 154

Rum Cake 157

Desserts

Apple Crisp 160

Dutch Apple Flat Pie 163

Fruit Pizza 164

Ice Cream Dessert 166

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake 169

Oreo Cookie Dessert 170

Joan's Strawberry Shortcake 172

Karen's Strawberry Shortcake 175

Crunch Bar Ice Cream Dessert 176

Peach Enchiladas 179

Pies

Grammy Vonk's Pie Crust 183

No Roll Pie Crust 183

Cream Pie Four Ways 185

Dutch Apple Pie 186

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie 189

Peach Pie 190

Pecan Joy Pie 193

Rhubarb Pie 194

Pumpkin Pie 197

Strawberry or Peach Pie 198

Merry Christmas

Brickle Graham Bites $

Pecan Pie Bars $

Fast and easy Fudge $

Graham Cracker Cookies $

Peanut Butter Fudge $

Kettle Corn $

Party Mix $

Which Chocolate Party Mix $

Peanut Brittle $

Peanut Butter Balls $

Canning & Freezing

How to Can 224

Burrito Sauce 225

Stewed Tomatoes 227

Sweet Zucchini Relish 230

Tomato Soup 231

Salsa 232

Applesauce 233

Freezer Corn 234

Freezer Strawberry Jam 236

Acknowledgments $

Index 239

Conversion Chart 243

About the Author 244