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That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food From the Heart
From Sunnier Days Ahead Meyer Lemon Squares to I Wanna Be Curled Up On My Couch with the Cats Stuffed Meatloaf and Salt Roasted Potatoes to Get You Through the Night, this warming, judgment-free collection of 150 mouthwatering recipes proves that a good meal heals all. 

The stars of the hit sensation Corona Kitchen know that good food and good stories are like a warm, healing hug, and we could all use one right now. Add seasoning, a dash of hilarious (and relatable) personal anecdotes, and the troubles of the day—pandemics and politics to name a few—seem to fade. 

Outspoken television pros Lisa Lucas and Debrianna Mansini shared their kitchens, hearts, anxieties, and good humor, and broadcast their culinary adventures during the Covid-19 lockdown and the dark days that followed, and in the process connected with a hungry audience that spans the globe. Here they share their most beloved dishes along with never-before-shared creations and the top-voted dishes of members of the Corona Kitchen community, and the result is a colorful cookbook and cathartic read all in one.

This quirky, hands-on volume features original recipes for all meals of the day, plus snacks, side dishes, cocktails and mocktails, and options for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free, and dairy-free diets. It will meet you where you are, no matter if you are stressed, sad, thriving, or nostalgic, and in the spirit of spontaneity, resourcefulness, and all things unscripted, all you have to bring to the table is yourself.

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That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food From the Heart
From Sunnier Days Ahead Meyer Lemon Squares to I Wanna Be Curled Up On My Couch with the Cats Stuffed Meatloaf and Salt Roasted Potatoes to Get You Through the Night, this warming, judgment-free collection of 150 mouthwatering recipes proves that a good meal heals all. 

The stars of the hit sensation Corona Kitchen know that good food and good stories are like a warm, healing hug, and we could all use one right now. Add seasoning, a dash of hilarious (and relatable) personal anecdotes, and the troubles of the day—pandemics and politics to name a few—seem to fade. 

Outspoken television pros Lisa Lucas and Debrianna Mansini shared their kitchens, hearts, anxieties, and good humor, and broadcast their culinary adventures during the Covid-19 lockdown and the dark days that followed, and in the process connected with a hungry audience that spans the globe. Here they share their most beloved dishes along with never-before-shared creations and the top-voted dishes of members of the Corona Kitchen community, and the result is a colorful cookbook and cathartic read all in one.

This quirky, hands-on volume features original recipes for all meals of the day, plus snacks, side dishes, cocktails and mocktails, and options for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free, and dairy-free diets. It will meet you where you are, no matter if you are stressed, sad, thriving, or nostalgic, and in the spirit of spontaneity, resourcefulness, and all things unscripted, all you have to bring to the table is yourself.

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Overview

From Sunnier Days Ahead Meyer Lemon Squares to I Wanna Be Curled Up On My Couch with the Cats Stuffed Meatloaf and Salt Roasted Potatoes to Get You Through the Night, this warming, judgment-free collection of 150 mouthwatering recipes proves that a good meal heals all. 

The stars of the hit sensation Corona Kitchen know that good food and good stories are like a warm, healing hug, and we could all use one right now. Add seasoning, a dash of hilarious (and relatable) personal anecdotes, and the troubles of the day—pandemics and politics to name a few—seem to fade. 

Outspoken television pros Lisa Lucas and Debrianna Mansini shared their kitchens, hearts, anxieties, and good humor, and broadcast their culinary adventures during the Covid-19 lockdown and the dark days that followed, and in the process connected with a hungry audience that spans the globe. Here they share their most beloved dishes along with never-before-shared creations and the top-voted dishes of members of the Corona Kitchen community, and the result is a colorful cookbook and cathartic read all in one.

This quirky, hands-on volume features original recipes for all meals of the day, plus snacks, side dishes, cocktails and mocktails, and options for vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free, and dairy-free diets. It will meet you where you are, no matter if you are stressed, sad, thriving, or nostalgic, and in the spirit of spontaneity, resourcefulness, and all things unscripted, all you have to bring to the table is yourself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781948062862
Publisher: Apollo Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 478,980
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lisa Lucas is a writer, producer, and actor who has produced and written more than thirty television series including for ABC's The Bachelorette, Bravo's Work of Art, and NBC's Emmy–winning My 1st Time. She produced the 2017 Emmy-nominated feature documentary Defending the Fire, and the 2022 Emmy-winning feature documentary However Wide the Sky. She is also an executive producer and principal partner in LikeMinds, a production company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that creates content for documentary and scripted television series, short films, and independent features. Lisa has received professional theatrical training from the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, and studied Shakespearean theater at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama in London. For some reason, she is frequently cast in roles of either unfortunate victims of wrong place at the wrong time situations, like in NBC's The Night Shift, or hyper pious parochial school nuns like in the 2021 short film The Holy Word. In 2020, Lisa and Debrianna Mansini launched Corona Kitchen, an unscripted nightly cooking show on Facebook and YouTube Live. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Debrianna Mansini is an actor, writer, and activist who is known for her role as Fran in AMC's Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and playing opposite Oscar winner Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart. She trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City before launching Tin Roof Productions, which later became the Santa Fe Performing Arts Company. Debrianna has worked off-Broadway in New York and has toured on stage throughout the United States in her critically acclaimed show The Meatball Chronicles. Debrianna and her husband, David Forlano, won the Earth Keepers Award for Best Sustainable Video for their documentary short Earth Ships of Taos, which was shown at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, and several of their documentary shorts have aired on Al Gore's cable network, Current TV. In 2010, Debrianna's children's short, Picking Up Feets, was selected for the International Women in Film Festival. In 2020, Debrianna and Lisa Lucas launched Corona Kitchen, an unscripted nightly cooking show on Facebook and YouTube Live. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Penina Meisels is an acclaimed food photographer who has photographed for Williams-Sonoma, Julia Child and Jaques Pépin, as well as a number of Joanne Weir's cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Weir Cooking in the City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Read an Excerpt

That Time We Ate Our Feelings is a natural progression of the livestream series. It is an introduction to this docu-experiment for those outside the Corona Kitchen social media sphere as well as a written culinary diary for our dedicated followers. We thought, Who wouldn’t want to read about two opinionated feminists who were trying to cope during a worldwide pandemic in a particularly tense election year? As a bonus, we have added some wonderfully poignant stories to accompany the fantastic family recipes we shared and “test kitchened” with viewers over the course of the quarantine. We are happy to make these scrumptious recipes available for people to enjoy and recreate in their own kitchens. 

This cookbook was written as an extension of a wonderful online community. It contains our best recipes; our dearest family stories, influences, and inspirations; and recipes from special guests as well as our regular weekly contributor and sister-friend, Hollie Lucas-Alcalay of Hollie’s Homegrown, along with a select few culinary contributions from our viewers.

Thank you so very much to our phenomenal Corona Kitchen members, without whom we would not be writing this book. Food is love. We came together online at a time when people could not come together in person. Through cooking, we managed to keep our friends, family, and ourselves sane during an insane time. When life is precarious, we turn to food for nourishment, communion, and storytelling. We are grateful for the time we have with family and friends, even when it’s in little boxes on our laptop screens. And this unexpected, forced isolation had a silver lining: it taught us to reconnect with the simple pleasures of life, like a great loaf of bread or a bunch of greens freshly picked from the garden. It also created a particular bubble of introspection and self-analysis underscored by the one thing that makes us feel like it’s all going to be okay: comfort food. Comfort food is calming and restorative, tasty, wholesome, welcoming, and filled with stories. Our goal with this comfort food cookbook was for it to be unintimidating and perhaps even inspire people who may never have dared to cook before. We believe that the title of Chef Auguste Gusteau’s cookbook from the Pixar movie Ratatouille is spot on: Anyone Can Cook. 

In good health (and with proper measuring cups),

Debrianna and Lisa

 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Breakfast and Brunch

  • The Best Granola. Ever.
  • Harcha (Moroccan Style English Muffins)
  • Cranberry Coffee Cake
  • Gluten-Free Tomato Tarte
  • Franny’s Take on Dinah Shore’s Dutch Bebe
  • Lemon Blackberry Scones
  • Shakshuka
  • Truffle Omelette
  • Hal Sparks’s Signature Quiche

Soups, Salads, and Sandwiches

  • Famous Carrot Salad Sandwich
  • Beyond BLT: With Creamy Parmesan Sauce
  • Better than Rice Oat Risotto
  • Stuffed Hamburgers with Goat Cheese and Caramelized Onions
  • Tuna and White Bean Salad with Lemon Basil Dressing
  • Classic Green Goddess Dressing on Butter Lettuce with Pears and Pecans
  • Better than Julia Child’s Caesar Salad (with Homemade Dressing)
  • Cream of Mushroom Soup with Rosemary and Sea Salt Crackers
  • Hearty Black Bean and Kale Soup
  • The Quintessential Curried Chicken Salad
  • Franny’s Circa ’74 Ambrosia Salad
  • Hollie’s Homegrown Cucumber Gazpacho
  • Hollie’s Homegrown Corn Chowder
  • Hollie’s Homegrown Fresh Tomato Soup

Breads, Biscuits, and Handmade Carbs!

  • La Famiglia Ravioli with Homemade Ricotta (with Special Guest Bob Cesca)
  • Make Your Own Gluten-Free Pasta
  • Potato Spelt Focaccia with Creamy Gorgonzola and Mascarpone
  • Handmade’s Tale Potato Gnocchi
  • Nana’s Zucchini Bread
  • Patrick the Brit’s Epic Green Chile Brioche
  • Cotswold Cheddar and Sage Biscuits
  • Chef Olly’s No Fail Pie Crust (If You Follow the F#%&Ing Directions)
  • Elena Alcalay’s You Can’t Eat Just One Bulgarian Burekas

Vegetables, Side Dishes, and Super Starters

  • OMG! Those Patatas Bravas
  • You Need These Preserved Lemons, Like a Good Siciliana
  • The Ultimate Grilled Mexican Street Food Corn
  • Yum Fried Green Tomatoes and Cheesy Grits
  • Ye Olde Standby Cranberry Chutney Caramelized Brussels Sprouts Stuffing with Pancetta and Walnuts
  • Throw Your Diet Out the Window Twice Baked Potatoes
  • Real Genovese Pesto
  • Grandma Papatone’s Sauerkraut and Spicy Sausage
  • Ratatouille Just Like the Movie
  • Three Mushroom Risotto to Die for (Really There’s No Meat)
  • Dreamy Rice Stuffed Heirloom Tomatoes with Cashews and Herbs
  • Hollie’s Homegrown Veggie Spring Rolls

Main Courses: Vegetarian, Fish, and Eat Your Meat!

  • Stuffed Pork Chops with Spinach and Cheesy Breadcrumbs
  • Debrianna’s Fried Dough Pizza as a Kid (with Special Guest Buzz Burbank)
  • Not Your Nona’s Spaghetti Ala Vongole
  • Hot and Spicy Harissa Chicken
  • The Incredible Edible Caramelized Lemon Chicken
  • Hoki Poki Wasabi Fish
  • Wanna Be Curled Up On My Couch with the Cats Stuffed Meatloaf
  • Vegan Scallops with Rice Noodles (Yeah, You’ll Never Miss the Scallops)
  • #1 Comfort Food In Poland: Haluski (Fried Cabbage and Noodles)
  • Next Level General Tsao’s Chicken
  • Knock Your Socks Off Roasted Vegetable Lasagna
  • I Need a Hug Braised Chicken Thighs and Chickpeas
  • Everything’s Going To Be Okay Vegetable Pot Pie Deluxe
  • Nana’s Eggplant Parmigiana
  • Red Snapper with Scalloped Potatoes, Tomato, and Kalamata Olive Confit
  • Roman Pasta with Asparagus, Creme Fraiche and Lemon
  • Yes You Can Bleu Cheese and Thyme Soufflé
  • Traditional Chicken Enchiladas with Authentic Mexican Rojo Sauce
  • Cheese Fondue, Because. Cheese Fondue.
  • Aunt Georgia’s (She’s Greek) Moussaka
  • Quicker than Julia Child’s Two-Day Beef Bourguignon
  • Great Grandpa Tony’s Cioppino
  • Chef Manu Azzaretto’s Pasta Carbonara (He’s From Italy)
  • Dana Goldberg’s Roasted Spaghetti Squash Pomodoro
  • Karl Frisch’s Ribeye Steak with Brussels Sprouts
  • Rocky Mountain Mike’s Baked Salmon with Broccoli
  • Frangela’s Notorious Homemade Chili

Desserts: Cookies, Cream, and Cakes

  • Ginger Chocolate Cookies
  • Labneh Panna Cotta with Pistachio White Chocolate Bark and Apricot Jam
  • Apricot Shortbread
  • Zucchini Cookies with Lemon Goat Cheese Frosting
  • Classic Semi Freddo
  • Gluten-Free Salted Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Cardamom Almond Cookies
  • Classic Meyer Lemon Bars
  • Don’t Trifle with Me Trifle
  • Le Tarte Tatin
  • Coconut Macaroons Dipped In Chocolate
  • Nana’s Apple Strudel
  • Franny’s Three Layer Chocolate Mousse
  • Honey-Orange-Grapefruit-Mint Granita
  • Yes, These Are the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Angel Food Birthday Cake
  • Aunt Georgia’s (She’s Greek) Baklava
  • Chocolate Custard with Sea Salt Caramel and Whipped Cream
  • Stan’s Fave Forest Berries Cheesecake
  • Hollie’s Homegrown Rose Petal Ice Cream

Cocktails, Mocktails & Bar Snacks

  • White Russian Milkshake
  • Roasted Peach Bourbon Cocktail
  • Thistle in the Peck
  • Red, Red Wine Milkshake
  • Spicy Maple Nuts
  • Apricot Chicken Wings
  • Crispy Five Spice Chicken Wings
  • Candied Bacon
  • Artichoke Party Dip
  • Watermelon Margaritas
  • Franny’s Sangria!
  • Make Your Own Grenadine
  • Chamomile Simple Syrup
  • Ginger Simple Syrup
  • Coffee Simple Syrup
  • Santa Fe Spirits Mesquite Manhattan
  • Santa Fe Spirits Apple Brandy Sour
  • Santa Fe Spirits 505 Collins
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