# What is your "homecooked" meal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857 "2013-11-01T17:06:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strangeland64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@Strangeland64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strangeland64)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/21 "2013-11-01T21:20:53Z")
Roast with potatoes and gravy and corn or broccoli and cheese, OR maybe Chicken and dumplings with biscuits. I don’t do desserts too much , sometimes peach cobbler. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/22 "2013-11-01T21:47:15Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > This is close for what I make my siblings when they visit - fried chicken, spinach greens with vinegar, biscuits, corn, and apple pie for dessert. Though at this time of year, they might go for my chili. Mine is fried chicken, rice and gravy (Louisiana native here), biscuits, salad/raw fruit of some kind, and either bread pudding or strawberries and cream over pound cake. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/23 "2013-11-01T21:53:57Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Mine is fried chicken, rice and gravy (Louisiana native here), biscuits, salad/raw fruit of some kind, and either bread pudding or strawberries and cream over pound cake. So. . .how YOU doin’? How’s your mom and them? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/24 "2013-11-01T22:59:38Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Whatcha making? Reservations. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/25 "2013-11-01T23:40:49Z")
Depends - for me I would ask mrAru to do the classic grilled steak, huge baked potato and a tossed salad with his homemade olive oil balsamic vinaigrette. He likes the classic Thanksgiving turkey dinner - stuffing baked outside the bird, mashed yams no marshmallow, apple pie. Although we both like the classic New England corned beef, cabbage, carrots, onions, celery, potatoes or the classic roast chicken done on a bed of potatoes, carrots, onions, celery. [For my birthday last Sunday we roasted a duck on a bed of red cabbage, baby potatoes, pearl onions, baby carrots and large chunks of celery seasoned with salt and pepper. Very basic and very tasty.] ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/26 "2013-11-02T00:07:49Z")
It depends on who’s coming to dinner. For the Fella, it would be pot roast with carrots and potatoes. For his boys, baked mac and cheese. For my siblings, chicken pie. Dessert for any of them would be cooked chocolate pudding or traditional’nanner pudding. ---
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/27 "2013-11-02T00:39:49Z")
So many good suggestions here. Why not consider roast turkey with stuffing, potatoes and green beans? I like this dinner on any fall/winter night, not just Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/28 "2013-11-02T00:45:11Z")
When I’m making a special meal (think “Sunday dinner”) for the extended family, I’ll make swiss steak, scalloped potatoes, deviled eggs, either coleslaw or cucumber salad, green beans, and homemade rolls. Since that meal takes a good six hours to make, if I’m just doing comfort food for the nuclear family, it’s beef stew or spaghetti with salad and garlic bread or maybe potato soup with cornbread. If I were making a meal with my own tastes in mind, I’d make a bean soup with vegetables (and, again, cornbread). ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/29 "2013-11-02T00:51:57Z")
If it’s cold outside: On the rare side, roast beef, with roasted potatoes and onions, fresh green beans, and gravy. If it’s hot outside: Ribs, slaw, pasta salad. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/30 "2013-11-02T06:09:44Z")
For him: grilled seasoned pork chops or chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, and gravy, and green salad. Or lasagna or spaghetti. In fact, he keeps an eye on how much spaghetti sauce is in the freezer, and will tell me if he’s getting low. And we had hamburgers and fries last night, and he mentioned several times that he really, really likes homemade burgers and fries. For me: I like pot roast and New England boiled dinner, and also roasted turkey. Boy, do I love roast turkey. And I think that home roast turkey sandwiches are much better than the stuff from the deli. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/31 "2013-11-02T08:11:41Z")
For my husband, it would be lasagna, made with my own, homemade tomato sauce. I guess it would be a toss up between that, my Cuban black bean chili, and/or a smoked turkey with mashed potatoes, and corn. For myself, I would choose fried chicken, buttered/peppered hominy, and fresh biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/32 "2013-11-02T15:26:33Z")
For myself, a big pan of enchiladas, with Redford beans on the side. My husband would probably want lasagne. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/33 "2013-11-02T17:01:35Z")
Chicken fried steak. Pot of beans cooked with ham. Cornbread. Best home cooked meal ever. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/34 "2013-11-02T17:15:07Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Yep, gotta go with meatloaf, mashed potatoes & gravy, and green beans. Or peas instead of green beans. Mix’em up with the mashed potatoes! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/35 "2013-11-02T23:36:30Z")
This thread inspired me to make my favorite homecooked meal: oven-roasted chicken and vegetables. I do the chicken plain, with a little olive oil. The vegetables are fingerling potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, red bell pepper, shallots, fennel, with a few kalamata olives, rosemary, and sage thrown in for flavoring. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/36 "2013-11-03T01:26:10Z")
Barbecue ribs, roasted vegetables, mac and cheese, and romaine lettuce dressed in Thai peanut dressing. Or I like making a large spread for breakfast with biscuits and gravy and pancakes and bacon and cut fruit and eggs and coffee and juice. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/37 "2013-11-03T01:43:48Z")
I’m seriously thinking there should be some recipes posted. Here is my comfort food. Chicken and Rice: Cream of mushroom soup Cream of celery soup Cream of chicken soup One cup of rice, preferably Uncle Ben’s converted rice Chicken breasts (I prefer boneless) Mix the soups and the rice along with some melted butter, lay the chicken on top. Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes or so. Eat and enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/38 "2013-11-03T02:08:51Z")
Depends on who it’s for…and I don’t currently have anyone who would opt for their first meal back to be from me. So I’ll throw this out instead - when I came back from a five week work stint in Europe, I asked my Mom to make her home made spaghetti sauce. Served with spaghetti, of course. It’s what I grew up on, and dang it, I missed it! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/39 "2013-11-03T05:32:45Z")
> [@Zago](#): > > So many good suggestions here. Why not consider roast turkey with stuffing, potatoes and green beans? I like this dinner on any fall/winter night, not just Thanksgiving. We do our version of Thanksgiving dinner 3 or 4 times a year. And once I tried doing just the breast of turkey, but we like the whole thing because we make soup out of the carcass after stripping off the meat 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MaltLiquor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@MaltLiquor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaltLiquor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857/40 "2013-11-03T06:16:16Z")
Roast chicken, roasted potatoes, and sauteed greens of some sort. Growing up an everday meal had three dishes one of each important part…protein, starch and vegetable. I stick to this even now as it is all you need. Roast chicken is a universal food for anyone that eats meat. It just smells of happy fuzziness for all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-homecooked-meal/672857.md?page=1)