Home Cooking Comeback will encourage and inspire you to cook no matter what your experience or comfort level may be in the kitchen. As a food journalist, regular party thrower, and seasoned meal preparer in her farm kitchen in rural Wisconsin , Jennifer Rude Klett shares her personal best recipes along with valuable insights and neighborly advice she's picked up along the way including: why you should cook at home - ways to make the most of your time, space, and money in the kitchen - important things to embrace - useless traps to avoid - 10 neighborly tips - 40 pleasing recipes Home Cooking Comeback covers 9 chapters featuring 40 recipes using foods raised, grown, or produced in Wisconsin such as cheese, black raspberries, cranberries, beef, maple syrup, dry beans, butter, wheat, potatoes, and milk . Simple but sumptuous recipes emphasizing seasonal and local foods include: Wisconsin Cheese Popcorn - Black Raspberry Buttermilk Pancakes - Beef Burgundy for the Rest of Us - Slow Cooked Maple Pork Chops - Maple-Kissed Roasted Rainbow Carrots - Pecan Pie with a Northern Twist - Silken Chocolate Pie - Great Northern Bean Soup - Whitefish with Lemon & Browned Butter - Plum Crisp with Cinnamon & Nutmeg - Brown Sugar Blondies - Creamy Potato Soup - Provence-Meets-Wisconsin Roast Chicken with Baby Reds - Golden Layer Cake & Browned Butter Frosting Full of beautiful food and farm photographs, Home Cooking Comeback will help you create your own cherished food culture of nourishing meals.