Cravings: All Together - Recipes to Love: A Cookbook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her most personal cookbook yet, the author of Cravings shares food that will bring you joy and comfort with a little help from her one-of-a-kind family.

Chrissy Teigen has always found a big sense of fun in the kitchen, but more than ever, she turns to the stove for comfort and warmth. Now Chrissy shares the recipes that have sustained her and her family, the ones that made her feel like everything is going to be okay. Recipes for Cozy Classic Red Lentil Soup, ingenious Chrissy signatures like Stuffed PB&J French Toast and puff pastry wrapped Meatloaf Wellington, and family favorites like her mom Pepper s Thai-style Sloppy Joes and John s Saturday-morning Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes will have you feeling like you re pulling up a chair to her table.

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Introduction

Welcome to Cravings Cookbook Season Three! I am soooo happy to have you back (or joining us for the first time)! Since the birth of Cravings which feels like 10,000 lifetimes ago so much has happened: babies have come, career and life paths have zigzagged like wild tributaries. Not to mention the country itself, which has been through the RINGER. We ve all been through the ringer. A nation divided, friends and families torn apart by fundamental differences. But there has been one constant: one thing has kept me sane, kept us happy, and kept us together a damn good meal with the ones we care about.

Family (in whatever form that takes for each of us) is more important than ever, and we ve gotten to see firsthand how crucial love is to our everyday existence. For far longer than anyone would have thought, human interactions were replaced with Zoom calls, and hugs became double- tapped hearts on Instagram. But mannnn, am I lucky that the act of creating a m eal, whether it s for yourself or your people, is a passion for so many of you out there! Every day Every. Single. Day. you tag me on posts showing the world something you ve cooked, and I see how you love to cook as much as I do, and it inspires me. You have no idea!

Look, I know what we write in books is supposed to be able to withstand the test of time, and hopefully by the time you read this, the pandemic is just a bad memory, but I d be insane not to address the incredible, heartbreaking time we have just been through. People have passed. People have suffered. There has been so much loss. We have all had to cope with this thing in one way or another, and many of us did it alone.

If there is any silver lining, during this time when we ve been stuck inside, we ve learned an incredible amount about ourselves and others, and we ve learned about what we need and what and who we love. Whereas before we barreled ahead without pausing, now we re lucky to even see our people. Although impromptu dinner parties with friends have seemed like a relic of the past for so long, I also had a chance to realize that they will come back and we will appreciate them more than ever.

For over a year, I have found comfort in, well, comfort. Comfort food used to sound like a cliche , but those dishes and that idea have meant so much to me this past year. Cravings, by nature, are timely. They are urges. Moments. But comfort, hopefully, lasts. The recipes we have created for this book are meant to be a cookable arsenal to hold on to forever.

Without a doubt, I have just lived through a period more transformative than I could have ever imagined. We lived through personal trauma, with the loss of our unborn baby, Jack. And that turned a very private journey into personal love and acceptance of life and all of its wild, horrific, beautiful ups and downs. So many of you stood by us during that time! I cannot thank you enough. This journey changed me in ways nothing else ever could, and while it was the absolute most painful thing I have endured, I have emerged stronger and hungrier than ever. Hungry for my family, hungry for my friends, hungry for love, hungry for work, hungry to make you hungry, and just plain f___ing hungry.

And boy, did Adeena get to see that firsthand. Like in the past, she moved in with me to cook and write this book together . . . and if she thought she knew me before, phew, was she mistaken! Even I was wrong about me. I thought, Hell, book three, how on earth am I gonna muster up a hundred more recipes without some kind of gimmick? Do I do healthy? Quick-and-easy? Both? I couldn t think of a theme. All I knew was that I wanted to have color and JOY, to dive more into the veggie world, to maybe nottttt put ham and cheese into every recipe.

Then I realized that the bi