Tag Archives: Home Cooking

The Easy Way to Cook from Scratch

Cooking from scratch is a great way to reduce your overall food bill. Eating out can cost three or four times as much as cooking at home, on average. Faced with the reality of the savings, why don’t we all cook more and eat out less? Well, one of the main reasons is that the idea of cooking every meal at home when our lives are so busy can seem daunting. Guess what, though? Eating at home can actually be less time consuming than going out in many cases. Plus, if you follow the following advice, you will see that … Continue reading →

Why Are Comfort Foods So Comforting?

I’ve finally recovered from my virus (I think!), four days of fever haze and comfort foods. And now that I’m thinking clearly again, I’m wondering why comfort foods are so dang comforting? The general consensus seems to be that comfort foods bring up good, safe, happy childhood memories. They’re generally not fancy, not gourmet… they’re familiar, comfortable, and filling. My own comfort foods? Well, as soon as I started feeling sick, I asked my roommate to go to the store for ginger ale and orange juice. They’re my go-to sick drinks… almost definitely because that’s what Mom always gave me … Continue reading →

Good Ole Country Food

I love a country restaurant that serves a home cooked meal. Now, being from the South, I may have a very specific idea of what a home cooked meal is. Some people love Cracker Barrel because they think it is country, home cooking. Uh, no, at least not in my book. Oh, I like Cracker Barrel, but no, the places I am talking about raise your cholesterol level at least 25 points just by walking in the door. You can see the butter oozing from the biscuits or cornbread rolls. The meat is always covered with gravy – always. And … Continue reading →