More than 180 home cooking recipes that feel like a hug.

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, slow-cooked beef stroganoff, chicken cacciatore, rich osso buco, and a moreish tuna pasta bake, to impressive modern cold-weather dishes including Asian-style caramel pork, Penang chicken curry, roasted pumpkin risotto with browned butter and sage, and creamy Calvados chicken, as well as a host of decadent desserts like dulce 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.

About The Author

Louise Franc is a cook, food stylist, and food writer based in Sydney, Australia.