Mom's Comfort Food

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.

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.