Comments on: Restaurant Quality? No Thank You. He’ll Take Home Cooking

By: Hairball

Hairball — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:15:32 +0000

Good Morning, Dr. J! I've got the song Home Cookin' from Fancy Pants playing in my head right now!

By: Kathy Warnock

Kathy Warnock — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:51:41 +0000

I have enjoyed watching all of my children step up to good nutrition in adulthood, learning to eat balanced diets. You just don’t feel right if all you’re eating is the “empty calorie” stuff.

By: Dr. Julie-Ann

Dr. Julie-Ann — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:58:41 +0000

Beth, don’t teenagers, in general, think they are oppressed? *grin*

As I we were putting away the produce I picked up from the farmer’s market, My Honey was commenting on how he couldn’t WAIT to live on his own because he was going to eat anything he wanted–Ho-hos and Snowballs and Twinkies and so on. Then, when he had his chance to eat whatever he wanted, he found out that the forbidden food really wasn’t as enticing as he thought it would be.

Kathy, when we lived in NJ and ate out almost every night during my grad school days, we started joking that all of the food was made in some big factory in New Brunswick and then shipped to all of the restaurants throughout the region. Really, no matter which diner we went to, the food always tasted the same…like it had been frozen and then microwaved in the diner’s kitchen. We know that that wasn’t true but it wasn’t very far off from the truth, either.

By: Kathy Warnock

Kathy Warnock — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:51:25 +0000

After we were married (1975), my husband and I agreed that we would eat out seldom and not skimp at the grocery store. In other words, the whole family would get the best food we could afford. We enjoy good, tasty, nutricious food prepared mostly in our own kitchen. We are never impressed when we eat out. My last meal out was at a country club and my opinion was that the entree was prepared elsewhere, frozen, and then microwaved in the club’s kitchen. I thought it hardly worth the price.

Last night I started reading my volume of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s columns as published in The Ruralist.

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:03:31 +0000

I’ve noticed that some of my newer cookbooks have recipes that promise to be “just like” the biscuits or bbq sauce at such-and-such chain restaurant. Why would I want to cook what I could buy? But I enjoyed hearing about your husband’s reaction as I’m hoping that some day my teenage son will come to appreciate his mama’s cooking. Now he thinks he’s very oppressed that he doesn’t get to eat out all the time.