Gone Homemade and Cannot Turn Back...

[crunchy_mama]

What recipes/ foods do you now make homemade that you cannot stand store bought now?

I had lost my good sausage supplier. This forced me to get off my tail and make my own. First I started w/ a recipe- blech- it didn't turn out at all. Next I just improvised w/ what I thought sounded good. Now I make b-fast and pizza sausage- yummy and super easy!

I accidently bought some premade sausage from the local butcher instead of ground pork(this is the little local guy so packaging is very plain and hard to distinguish). We went ahead and ate it as we cannot afford to just throw away food. Oh, my - my homemade stuff is infiintely better w/o a nasty aftertaste!

How about you?

[staceychev]

Chicken stock. I roast a whole chicken at least twice a month and make stock with the carcass in a crock pot afterwards. It's so much better than store bought, it's not even funny. In a pinch, I'd still cook with store bought if I had to and if the recipe didn't call for much, but I'd never use it as a base for a soup!

[Alyantavid]

Broth/stock
tartar sauce
most prepackaged meal type things (my kids can't have them because of allergies, so I make my own)

[cristeen]

Mac & Cheese. DH used to live on the boxed stuff. Once I started making it for him though, now the boxed stuff tastes about as good as the box it comes in.

Sausage is something I keep meaning to attempt, but haven't yet.

[Solose]

beans-I still use canned once in a while but now that I've had homemade I can definately tell the difference.

any kind of baked sweets

[jocelyndale]

Salsa verde for enchiladas. I do still buy storebought, but making it with fresh tomatillos is *amazing*.

[fruitfulmomma]

tartar sauce

This one for me too. It is one of the earliest things I learned to make for myself and it tastes sooo much better than store bought.

Also, fresh popcorn made on the stove with olive oil, real butter, and salt.

[mama2be11]

Any kind of soup or stock

Popcorn

Baked goods

Actually, pretty much anything.

[siobhang]

bread
stock/broth (chicken, beef, turkey, veg)
cookies and cakes
tomato sauce
baked beans
clam chowder
oh, heck, pretty much everything

[lil_earthmomma]

I can't stand commercial salad dressings. Blech.

Packaged soups of any kind taste funny to me now, as well as smoothies. I love my green smoothies so much that now I can't enjoy an orange julius type smoothie any more. It tastes so sweet and fake-ish!

[Magelet]

pasta sauce! (so big time on this one)
soups/stocks
salad dressing
mayonaise
beans

[Drummer's Wife]

Tortillas!

[CrunchyMamaToBe]

Veggies and soups! I can taste if they've come out of a can instantly, and they just taste wrong to me now. I especially hate it when we are out for a meal and I can tell one of the ingredients in a dish has come from a can.

I am a total sucker for bottled salad dressings, though. Ranch dressing at home?! Anyone got a recipe that doesn't involve buttermilk (which is nearly impossible to get in the UK)?

[LauraLoo]

Originally Posted by CrunchyMamaToBe

I am a total sucker for bottled salad dressings, though. Ranch dressing at home?! Anyone got a recipe that doesn't involve buttermilk (which is nearly impossible to get in the UK)?

You can make a buttermilk substitute very easily:
http://frugalliving.about.com/od/con...ermilk_Sub.htm


As for us -- Any baked goods and breads, and especially salsa. I could never go back to store bought salsa - ever.

[staceychev]

Originally Posted by fruitfulmomma

Also, fresh popcorn made on the stove with olive oil, real butter, and salt.

Totally!

[CrunchyMamaToBe]

Originally Posted by LauraLoo

You can make a buttermilk substitute very easily:
http://frugalliving.about.com/od/con...ermilk_Sub.htm

I have done this for baking/cooking, but do you think it would work 'in the raw'?

[allnaturalmom]

Bread! :

[LauraLoo]

Originally Posted by CrunchyMamaToBe

I have done this for baking/cooking, but do you think it would work 'in the raw'?

I can't say that I've tried it, but I would bet that it would work. If you try it, just make a very small amount (like a 1/4 recipe) and test it out. And then let us all know if you liked it....

I've also done a ranch recipe that's sour cream and mayo - which I dilute down with milk to make it flow better. I like the buttermilk recipes better.

[vbactivist]

Pancakes,
baked goods (everytime I make a cake, I;m like, why did I ever use a box mix before???)

I'd like to make my own catsup...

[zinemama]

granola