The long lost recipe you've been searching for may be in here! One summer day, the author woke up craving one of her grandmother's treats. That is when she realized she did not have any favorite recipes from her mother or either grandmother. You know the ones; the foods that helped comfort you during the tough "growing up" years. So, upon that very sad realization, she approached her mother and obtained as many of her favorites that she could. After her mother died, she scoured through boxes relentlessly to find more. Unfortunately her one grandmother never passed down her Applesauce Cookies recipe, which was the one Mozelle craved that morning. As a mental health professional, Mozelle suggests that you use this time for some extra-bonding with your parents and grandparents to acquire all of your favorite recipes. Then some extra-bonding with your children to acquire their favorite recipes of yours , and add them to the blank pages within. Nothing fancy in here, just great comfort foods from her Midwestern golden years. Why not create one of the recipes today? Just click on the "Look Inside" option now so you havetime to run to the grocery store before supper. "These recipes brought back some great memories from Sunday afternoons with my grandma. We spent all day in the kitchen cooking and sat down to a huge meal that evening. Midwest grandmas and Midwest recipes are the best!" ~ Ronna Brown, Chef "There is only one word I want to say and that is YUMMY. But there is so much more to say that this book deserves such as easy, retro, old school, and healthier than most of today's food options that come in a box or can. These are not microwave recipes, so get our your casserole dish and soup kettle and fire up your stove." ~ Donald Cooper, Chef One day I woke up and craved a dish from my grandmother, only to be deeply saddened that I didn't have her recipe. I then went through boxes my mom left upon her passing shortly before and saved all the recipes I could find. Both of my grandmothers and my mother wereamazing cooks. Unfortunately, while I am a good cook, I strongly dislike cooking but my children enjoy it. As adults with a family of their own now, I originally created this book just for them because inside is my personal handwritten letter to them both. Then many friends wanted a copy of it and well, supply and demand :) So, if you like comfort foods from yesteryear such as casseroles, soups, stews, and sweets, you will enjoy this book in which all recipes were acquired from my family who were born and raised, diehard Midwesterners. Who knows, this book may contain that long lost recipe you have been searching for. Oh and by the way, I realize we can find recipes for everything online - from making homemade bread to homemade bombs. However, the recipes from days gone by still outshine the newer, more expedient copycats of today. Of course, that's just my opinion. Why not create one of the recipes today? Just click on the "Look Inside" option now so you have time to run to the grocery store before supper. Mozelle Martin, Ph.D. has been writing for over 30 years when she first start publishing technical books from her decades-long forensic career. However, most of those have since been retired and are now considered collectibles. She continues to write but, given her decades-long tenure in the mental health field, she has turned her writing focus toward the mental health and self-help categories "with a bit of science and spirituality sprinkled in". She writes like she communicates and that is without much sugar-coating. So if you like books by Lori Gottlieb, Gabrielle Bernstein, or Rachel Hollis, you will likely appreciate Dr. Martin's books as well. Additionally, she is a sought-after public speaker who has been compared to BreneBrown. Dr. Martin is also the creator of the  Girl Behind the Fence  self-help book series for women which has been compared to the  Chicken Soup for the Soul  series.  On the personal side, she was often in trouble as a child for going into her grandmother's garden and eating all the raw vegetables. For example, she would carefully open the pea pod, slip the peas out, throw them in her mouth like popcorn, and then carefully close the pod back up. Hours later, her grandmother would return to the garden thinking she had a lot of fresh peas, only to find empty pods. Dr. Martin was rentless with those vegetables and still is.  Read it now by clicking on the "Look Inside" option above.