Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 20:05     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:Pork loin roast. And not the small tenderloin thing, the bigger thing, the much less expensive one. With gravy made from the drippings, and mashed potatoes. And peas with pearl onions (which I can't find anymore.) And a perfect green salad with some blue cheese in it and a sherry shallot vinaigrette.

Yes, I'm Gex X old, with a case of nostalgia when it comes to food.


Ha. Young boomer here. I hated those pearl onions my mom would trot out for all the big holidays! Set me back on onion love for years, until my 30s.

Different strokes!
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 19:50     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:My personal chef makes the most dreamy cream of tomato soup with cheese toasties.

Personal chef troll always pops up.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 19:44     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
My special homemade Ragu served over tagliatelle pasta.

Butter chicken (finally found a recipe I like)

Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 18:35     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
My personal chef makes the most dreamy cream of tomato soup with cheese toasties.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 16:36     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
My husband can cook but nothing special and out love language is not him cooking for me. My son would make me fresh pasta, which he is excellent at, and I would make a salad while we chat.

For my son I would make chicken tinga with beans, rice, corn, tortillas, fresh pico de gallo, and guacamole. Apple Pie or Hershey's Chocolate cake for dessert.

For my husband, mashed potatoes with some sort of fresh veggie and steak.  Brownies for dessert.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 16:28     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’d ask my mom to make her Sunday special lunch: sambar, rasam, two poriyals, pachadi, fried appalam, avakkai, homemade yogurt, white rice and milk payasam.


+100 South Indian food >>>


Non Indian here. I just looked up some recipes and now I'm starving. I'm going to give sambar a try. Thanks for mentioning this.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 12:32     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
My mom offers this sometimes and I always ask for “Thanksgiving without the Turkey” so her homemade:
- Dressing
- cranberry sauce
- Mac and cheese
- cornbread
- creamed corn

This thread is making me crave it now!!
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 00:46     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:My husband would probably say my chili or beef stew.


Maybe I'm reading too much into this response, but Poster, please don't lose your own identity in your spouse. The question was what is YOUR favorite home cooked meal. Not "What's your HUSBAND'S favorite home cooked meal?" Tell us about YOU, independent of HIM.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 00:41     Subject: Re:What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Crab cakes, potato salad, garlic string beans and real — biscuit style — strawberry short cake.

That said, if someone makes great fried chicken, or wonderful shrimp and grits, or awesome ribs, or Nepali specialties, I’d be happy to try something new.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 23:43     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:A family chicken dish that I haven't made for years because chicken is too woody. I'd have to special order something from goldbelly or something and really plan ahead and spend $$$


What’s the family chicken dish?
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 20:01     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Homemade Alfredo or Mac n cheese

Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 19:57     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
I don’t think I have *a* favorite. Ask me one night and I might say fettuccine with garlic shrimp and roasted asparagus. Another day it might be my grandmothers baked ham with twice naked potatoes. I can never tell what I’m going to want tomorrow.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 19:49     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Alaskan red king crab with steamed jasmine rice, green salad, hot sourdough roll and melted butter.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 19:43     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:This is the birthday rule in our family — you get one meal at a restaurant of your choosing, and one homemade meal of your choosing.

What I asked, my mother for varies — Sometimes it’s a veal dish in a blue cheese sauce (It’s out of my cousins cookbook so it’s a real family affair wheh we do that one). Last year it was the barefoot Contessa white pizzas with arugula. My birthday is in August so I always get an ice cream cake.

DH Is very good at steak, so I’ll usually get that from him with twice baked potatoes. His twice-baked potatoes are second only to my mother and as she gives him tips, he’s catching up. I won’t even bother eating twice baked in a restaurant anymore. It’s Mom ‘s or DH’s or nothing.

My mother has requested I make shrimp and grits for her birthday for over 10 years now. And DH request my shrimp diavola. So apparently I’m really good at shrimp.

Both of them love a rum cake, so I’ll usually make one of those. Or, for my mom, any dessert with peanut butter and/or banana.


This makes me want to try shrimp with grits at home. I think they'd be a big hit. Do you have a fave recipe? Do you get cooked shrimp or cleaned uncooked shrimp, etc?
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 19:31     Subject: What's your favorite home cooked meal?
Anonymous wrote:I’d ask my mom to make her Sunday special lunch: sambar, rasam, two poriyals, pachadi, fried appalam, avakkai, homemade yogurt, white rice and milk payasam.


+100 South Indian food >>>