Stand by Your Pan: 100 Easy & Affordable Comfort Food Recipes So Good They’ll Hurt People’s Feelin’s

“There’s an art to Southern cooking they don’t teach in culinary school,” asserts country singer and TikTok chef Dasher in her nostalgia-tinged debut. Alongside pimento cheese, buttermilk corn bread, fried catfish po’boys, and other Southern staples, Dasher shares family recipes, among them her sister’s oven-fried cane butter chicken, her mother’s cream cheese pound cake, her father’s Brunswick stew, and her aunt’s simmered garden peas. An aficionado of all things vintage, Dasher encourages readers to hit thrift stores for dinner sets and glasses, and demonstrates how to make several mid-century gelatin salads, including shrimp and tomato aspic, strawberry pretzel salad, and Watergate salad. Other highlights include potato chip–crusted pork chops, squash fritters, and eclair cake made in honor of Elvis. Instructions are easy to follow and replete with amusing, folksy commentary (“I can’t tell blondes apart from one another, but I never forget a blondie,” she writes of the classic dessert). Most recipes require minimal fuss, though some planning ahead is necessary: the low country shrimp boil, for instance, involves brining the shrimp in the fridge for 4–12 hours before cooking, and the broccoli salad needs to be refrigerated for at least four hours before serving. This will be great fun for Dasher fans. (Mar.)