Comfort Food Cookbook

This is a comfort food cookbook that fuses the American, German, Norwegian, and English traditions with high quality ingredients and fantastic flavor combinations.
  Originally these recipes were in print in 2011 under the title, Exceptional Comfort: The Recipes: Volume I.
  Now enjoy 140 recipes in this digital book, an enhanced edition, with hundreds of pictures as you scroll through the Appetizers and Beverages, Soups and Salads, Vegetables and Side Dishes, Main Dishes, Breads and Muffins, Desserts, Cookies, and Sauces and Condiments.  It is my intention to give the gift of Exceptional Comfort.  Enjoy!


What’s in Comfort Food Cookbook?


*Appetizers and Beverages*

Egg coffee -
Fondue -
Fruit, Cheese, and Herring Appetizer Tray -
Gløgg -
Hot Dog and Cheese Pie Bites -
Peppermint Hot Chocolate

 

*Soups and Salads*

Bean Salad Accented with Radishes and Dill -
Cabbage and Cucumber Salad -
Corn Chowder -
Fruit Salad with Candied Ginger -
Ginger Date Pumpkin Soup -
Ginger Vegetable Soup -
Ham Salad with Tarragon and Dates -
Herring, Greens, and Goat Cheese -
Pea Soup -
Peas in Yogurt Dill Lemon Sauce -
Pepper and Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese -
Pineapple Fruit Salad -
Pumpkin Pie Soup -
Salad Greens with Herbs and Roasted Fennel -
Vegetable Beef Soup -
Vegetable Soup with Brussels Sprouts

 

*Vegetables and Side Dishes*

Acorn Squash -
Baby Potatoes and Portabella Mushrooms -
Baked Beans -
Baked Potatoes with Flavored Butters -
Braised Cabbage -
Braised Zucchini with White Beans and Saffron -
Brown Sugar Roasted Cranberries -
Butternut Squash -
Corn on the Cob -
Cranberry Mold -
Cream Corn Souffle -
Egg Spaetzle -
German Potato Salad -
Grama’s Spanish Rice -
Green Beans Accented with Garlic and Basil -
Mashed Potato Vegetable Casserole -
Mashed Potatoes with Rutabaga -
Onion and Garlic Roasted Beets -
Potato Gratin -
Potato Pancakes -
Potato Spaetzle -
Risotto with Cognac and Cheese -
Roasted Parsnips -
Spicy Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage -
Sweet Potato Polenta -
Tarragon Apples -
Turkey Dressing -
Vegetable Pineapple Stir Fry -
White Macaroni and Cheese -
Yellow Squash, Pepper, and Bacon Fry -
Yorkshire Pudding

 

*Main Dishes*

Awesome Pot Roast -
Bacon Quiche -
Barbecued Pork Ribs -
Beef Barbecue -
Beef Brisket with Honey Mustard Glaze -
Beef Curry with Tri-Color Peppers -
Beef Stew Braised in Red Wine Sauce -
Breakfast Porridge -
Chicken Bok Choy -
Chicken Chop Suey -
Chicken Hassenfeffer -
Chicken Pot Pie -
Chili -
Eric’s Christmas Prime Rib Roast -
Ginger Beef with Brown Rice -
Ginger Pot Roast -
Grilled Cheese with Sauerkraut -
Halibut in Butter Sauce -
Hamburgers -
Lamb Shanks -
Lamb Stew -
Marinated Beef with Pita Bread and Goat Yogurt -
Meat Loaf for a Crowd -
Meatballs with Gravy and Lingonberries -
Oven Fried Chicken -
Pork Chops and White Lima Beans -
Pork Loin Rib Roast -
Pork Shoulder Blade Roast and Apple Ragout -
Porridge Parfait -
Rack of Lamb -
Saffron Soufflés -
Salmon in Balsamic Vinegar -
Salmon in Dark Molasses -
Salmon with Candied Ginger -
Scrambled Eggs with Dill and Coriander -
Slum Gum Spaghetti -
Spaghetti Sauce -
Sweet Sour Tuna with Brown Rice -
Three Big Chickens -
Tourtiere (Pork Pie) -
Traditional Beef Stew -
Turkey

 

*Breads and Muffins*

Banana Coconut Bread -
Christmas Bread -
Coconut French Toast -
French Toast -
Gingerbread Pineapple Date Muffins -
Hot Cross Buns -
Kim’s Lefse -
Norwegian Pancakes -
Potato Buns -
Potato Onion Waffles -
Puffovers (Popovers) -
Puffy Pancakes -
Scones

 

*Desserts*

Apple Pie -
Blackberry Crisp -
Blackberry Pineapple Tarts -
Brownies -
Brownies with Candied Ginger and Orange Peel -
Chocolate Fudge Cakes in Cognac Chocolate Sauce -
Cloudberry Brandy Cake -
Coconut Cream Chocolate Layer Cake -
Coconut Lemon Sorbet -
Haupia (Hawaiian Coconut Pudding) -
Pie Dough -
Plum Pudding -
Pumpkin Soufflé with Goat Cheese -
Raspberry Cream Dessert -
Snow Pudding

 

*Cookies*

Chocolate Granola Bars -
Graham Crackers -
Grama Tessem’s Spice Cookies -
Jam Tarts -
Lemon Cranberry Drop Cookies -
Oatmeal Raisin Molasses Cookies -
Pie Cookies -
Short Bread -
Wreath Cookies (Berliner Kranser)

 

*Sauces and Condiments*

Barbecue Sauce -
Cranberry Lemon Sauce -
Flavored Butter Medley -
French Dressing -
Hard Sauce -
Meat Gravy -
Sauce for Seafood -
Yogurt with Horseradish and Lemon