Carla's comfort foods : favorite dishes from around the world

Summary: "Featuring 130 recipes with new variations on soulful favorites, this cookbook covers the culinary globe on an ingenious, delicious mission: to capture the international flavors of comfort. [...] In Cooking with Carla, you'll find a mouthwatering variety of foods from around the world. Each section covers a cooking technique or main ingredient and then follows with international variations. Stove-top chicken starts with Carla's classic recipe for Southern Chicken with Milk Gravy. Then you'll learn to make French Chicken in Dijon Cream as well as West African Spicy-Sweet Stew; following Southern Grits, there's Italian Polenta and Jamaican Breakfast Porridge; and next to Italian-American Lasagna, you'll find recipes for Irish Shepherd's Pie and Mexican Enchiladas. With a fun international spice chart that shows what seasonings belong to which cuisines, Cooking with Carla takes you on a culinary adventure, striking a unique balance between the heartfelt stories and flavors she's encountered around the world."--