Jeanine Donofrio wants to leave our ideas of “good food” and “bad food” behind and instead turn to a different category: “feel-good food.” To her, this means recipes that satisfy a craving, are fun to make, and use seasonal ingredients. The Texas recipe blogger imagines this lemony polenta cake from her newest cookbook, Love and Lemons: Simple Feel Good Food, at a sunny summer gathering. “Topped with toasted almonds and ruby red strawberries, it looks impressive, but it’s delightfully simple to make,” Donofrio writes. “The moist, tender cake is wonderful on its own, but you could certainly dress it up more with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dusting of powdered sugar.”
For more feel-good food, see Donofrio’s recipes for Savory Vegetable Cabbage Pancakes and Tortellini Soup with Lemon Peel Broth.
