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walksthenight11
Asheville, NC
74, joined Feb. 2011
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I cook from scratch about 95%. I use stuff like store bought tomato sauce, catsup, mustard and spices. Also cook with prepackaged frozen or canned vegetables. Don't make my own butter or cheese. Gosh maybe I only cook 50/50 from scratch.
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tgismom
Kirksville, MO
48, joined May. 2011
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 I do not know how to cook out of a box, 
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| 5/16/2011 9:42:43 PM |
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roobihart
Watsonville, CA
34, joined May. 2011
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I can cook from scratch. My mom had me help her make home made flour tortillas since I was about 5...and it kinda grew from there.
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hewhosparks
Belton, MO
46, joined Feb. 2010
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I cook from scratch about 95%. I use stuff like store bought tomato sauce, catsup, mustard and spices. Also cook with prepackaged frozen or canned vegetables. Don't make my own butter or cheese. Gosh maybe I only cook 50/50 from scratch.
Its called semi homemade or somthing like that there is even a food network show about it. sometimes i cook completly from scratch other times i get lazy and nuke a frozen diner or anything in between
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skiwino
Redford, MI
55, joined Feb. 2007
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I cook from scratch about 95%. I use stuff like store bought tomato sauce, catsup, mustard and spices. Also cook with prepackaged frozen or canned vegetables. Don't make my own butter or cheese. Gosh maybe I only cook 50/50 from scratch.
Same here; I often use canned tomato sauces and pre mixed spices like Curry or Chile powders,ketchup, prepared mayonaise, mustard, etc... I agree; that's probably closer to 50% than 100% "from scratch".
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| 5/17/2011 12:51:35 AM |
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charon52
Evanston, IL
64, joined Oct. 2009
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Same here; I often use canned tomato sauces and pre mixed spices like Curry or Chile powders,ketchup, prepared mayonaise, mustard, etc... I agree; that's probably closer to 50% than 100% "from scratch".
Yeah, about the same for me too... The good canned tomatoes are only an hour or two from picking and have no chemicals or waxy sprays. Same for a lot of the fresh-frozen veggies just look for (and avoid) the added salt & water brands. SOME of the canned veggies are that way also, but watch out for the water/oil/chemical content- I found a lot of them have added sugar (HFCS) too. Most common condiments are more cost-effective than trying to make your own. Same for pasta sauces- season the store brands up to your taste level and add meat or sausage or veggies.
Times is tough and it's difficult to afford to eat fresh and 100% home made foods unless you're growing and raising your own.
Maybe we need a thread on affordable tasty & healthy eating...
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| 5/22/2011 8:39:15 AM |
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catiefaye
Troy, MI
58, joined Aug. 2010
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I love to cook from scratch and pretty much do, always. But sometimes I find a prepared food that works better in certain recipes than home-made. For example, I add Muir Glen's spaghetti sauce to my own spaghetti sauce recipe.
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emtlife
Raven, VA
42, joined May. 2011
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Most all food i cook r haome made from sratch. Cooking is my passion when at home.
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membelle42
Memphis, TN
48, joined Apr. 2011
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I can cook from scratch but these days when cooking fir one, it's something simple or from a box. I guess 50/50 is what I do from scratch.
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| 6/25/2011 6:55:18 PM |
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treelink
Albuquerque, NM
56, joined Jun. 2011
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i have day four (4) here in internet dating ... I like these FORUMS.
Some people, don't know what cooking from scratch ... actually means.
From scratch, in MY family and Extended family, means: we make our OWN bread,
with natural flour, yeast, raw sugar, sea salt... I cook recipes from the people
i met, internationally (South America Peru, India, Chine, Italy, Vietnamese, USA...
and am still learning)
From scratch means we grew our Tomatoes in the garden, and we cook down the tomatoes to make the sauce (some call it gravy). From scratch means that we ground our own spices,
(herbs and spices), BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW what the Definition is
... of cooking from scratch. (?)
Sometimes, some people can say they cooked from scratch, when they bought a box of cake mix.
They spent the time to add the egg, oil and water, and they call it cooking from scratch. For me (to me) this is not from scratch. And when i visited other countries,
they Grew their own WHEAT, shucked the hulls, grounded the seed, made their FLOUR, and
that is really and truly from SCRATCH, before they made their bread.
see what I'm saying?
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| 6/30/2011 12:36:21 AM |
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liltower
Las Cruces, NM
60, joined Mar. 2008
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I like to use as many fresh organic ingredients as I can try not to use any boxed premade any thing . dont like the preservatives.
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| 7/15/2011 4:15:10 PM |
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mintlily
Fort Worth, TX
27, joined May. 2011
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I do never out of a box.
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| 7/18/2011 5:09:17 PM |
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idiotmagnet1
Gurley, AL
48, joined Jul. 2011
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<---Starts with Love!
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| 7/20/2011 1:26:07 PM |
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anubiskaine
New York, NY
32, joined Jul. 2011
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I do almost everything from scratch (87%), as far as I am concerned it's the only way to go.
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| 7/21/2011 2:31:45 PM |
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cyranoz357
Columbia, SC
30, joined Apr. 2011
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The majority of the meals I prepare are from scratch. It really is the best way to cook. Hell i'm making spaghetti from scratch right now. 
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| 7/22/2011 12:19:41 AM |
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marybi2011
Emporia, KS
27, joined May. 2011
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the only thing i cant make right now is pasta. but i can make some awesome stew and lasagna.
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| 7/23/2011 3:33:50 PM |
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kinkaju
Booneville, AR
70, joined Jun. 2011
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about 80percent scratch 20percent comes out of a box or can and add something extra for my tastebuds
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| 7/29/2011 5:34:18 AM |
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tballis77
Grayslake, IL
45, joined Aug. 2010
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I dont believe cooking from a box i cook from scratch thats what chef do like me
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| 9/12/2011 9:20:29 PM |
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delphinium75
Pleasantville, NJ
54, joined Jul. 2011
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I cook from scratch each and every day!
I also have an extensive herb collection, which I take great joy in growing.
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| 9/14/2011 6:09:03 PM |
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my6nme
Rockford, IL
50, joined Sep. 2011
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I love to cook from scratch, too! That's one of the reasons I am here! I need help figuring out a new recipe I am trying to make up... Perhaps there is a recipe already out there? I want to use balsamic vinegar, honey, onions and applesauce to make a sauce for thick cut pork chops... Any suggestions/ ideas/ opinions? Thanks!
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| 9/16/2011 10:35:59 PM |
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tarzansearches
Somerdale, NJ
26, joined Sep. 2011
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I don't need eat food from boxes.
I don't eat anything prepared in microwaves.
Real, natural, whole foods for me. 
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| 9/27/2011 6:19:59 PM |
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jpoppyw
Elizabeth, IN
58, joined Jul. 2009
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I cook every day several times a day all from scratch, including my breads, preserves, butter,and just about everything in my house. Homemade is best!
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| 10/4/2011 8:20:50 AM |
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ace418
Annapolis, MD
34, joined Aug. 2011
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I have bad food allergies. I cook entirely from scratch all the time no exceptions.
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| 11/30/2011 6:11:08 AM |
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deadheartwar
Turlock, CA
27, joined Nov. 2011
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I make all my italian food from scratch gotta have that pasta fresh, calzones too. Ciao.
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| 12/2/2011 7:09:50 PM |
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reenie4
Milwaukee, WI
60, joined Dec. 2007
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Only way to go... stay away from processed foods! It's not healthy for you!
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| 12/11/2011 6:13:07 AM |
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firechump22
Mishawaka, IN
33, joined Aug. 2011
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Just made a white chocolate rasberry cheesecake totally from scratch.
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| 12/12/2011 7:27:31 PM |
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jpoppyw
Elizabeth, IN
58, joined Jul. 2009
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Just made a white chocolate rasberry cheesecake totally from scratch.
  You are gonna share right!!!! 
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| 12/16/2011 3:38:19 AM |
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ace418
Annapolis, MD
34, joined Aug. 2011
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"Gourmet cook book"
Good place to start
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| 12/20/2011 10:06:17 PM |
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mssmo
Stow, OH
56, joined Jun. 2010
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I cook from scratch every day! The only way to go!
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| 12/22/2011 12:51:49 AM |
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boredgirl2012
Springville, UT
49, joined Dec. 2011
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What is "scratch"? Is that on the grocery aisle next to the cream of mushroom soup? Ha ha
I cook from scratch sometimes, but it takes so much time and work and cleanup... almost always tastes better, tho. And I'm sure it's almost always better for you, too.
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| 12/26/2011 12:04:16 AM |
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chrisblue12
Monroe, NY
26, joined Dec. 2011
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cooking from scratch always tastes better
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| 12/26/2011 11:22:04 AM |
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hazeleyedgirl12
Roseburg, OR
37, joined Oct. 2011
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My son has a ton of food allergies. So I usuually do a lot of stuff from scractch. He has allergies to gluten, casien (whey, most dairies) But he can have butter and I make organic whip cream from scratch that he can have. He is also allergic to soy, nuts and peas. My mother decide afer a few years of watching me do all this baking from scratch that she would start a company doing gluten, soy and nut free baking stuff. SO it has made it a little bit easier on me. I just go to her house and get the baking mixes I want and go from there. But I do homemade breads and cookis and pies and pizzas.
I actually have a loaf of bread in the oven right now. It takes about an hour or so between mixing, proofing and baking the bread. But it sure turns out great.
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| 12/26/2011 11:27:55 AM |
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hazeleyedgirl12
Roseburg, OR
37, joined Oct. 2011
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Only way to go... stay away from processed foods! It's not healthy for you!
I agree with you on that one for sure. I buy as much organic as I can. I even have a friend who butchers cows for a living and does all the organic feed. Between my mother and I we buy a whole cow every year from him. It tastes so much better then the processed scrap on the stores. And the only thing I use a microwave for is to heat up water when I am to lazy to wait for the pot to come to a boil. I even have a popcorn maker so I din't have to use the microwave for popcorn and buy organic kernels
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| 12/26/2011 1:47:36 PM |
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goldengirlie
Lewisburg, WV
39, joined Nov. 2011
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I would rather cook from scratch instead of eating out because food taste better made at home and much more healthier for you. I only eat out when I have to and then I pick healthy foods like salads.
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| 12/28/2011 7:23:03 AM |
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steelersluvr
Gravette, AR
37, joined Aug. 2011
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i grew up cookin with my granny. I love to cook and bake and yes everything i make is from scratch, i never buy boxed stuff and i garden and freeze my veggies and herbs so i have them for the winter.
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| 12/29/2011 8:23:13 AM |
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xx_missfit_xx
Sun City, CA
33, joined Dec. 2011
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I love cooking from scratch at every opportunity, it just tastes better. (:
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| 12/31/2011 10:12:09 PM |
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jag_wire007
Lancaster, OH
54, joined Nov. 2011
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By far as a event caterer I cook from scratch...there is a true difference in taste as all my clients will tell anyone..I come from a long line of Southern cooks and many family recipes passed though the hands of these fine men and women through the years and now I have them trusted to me and I hope to put some together and post as they are mouth watering and not too hard to complete.
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| 1/2/2012 4:28:25 PM |
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redmonster85
Las Vegas, NV
31, joined Sep. 2011
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When I had a stove adn a working sink I would hate using prepared things. Now days though with only haveing an electric griddle to cook on or the microwave i have to use alot more preppaird things I cant wait till i cna move into an apartment and get a stove back for i can cook the way i used to!
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| 1/6/2012 12:02:47 PM |
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max_viscosity
Hammond, IN
46, joined Dec. 2011
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I like to cook from scratch but my current kitchen doesn't allow for much of a line set up.
I have a question...can't start a new thread because my profile is too new. However;
Can you soft boil eggs...chill them and finish them another day? I thought they were fully boiled..I'm a cook that sucks at boiling eggs..for real..and my rice is suspect as well..anyway...
I'm going ahead and bringing the eggs to a slow boil...I'm gonna eat them...I fully expect to have gas and know the food safety manual..any thoughts on fixing that problem?
~suck at boiling eggs
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| 1/31/2012 9:30:26 PM |
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sharonorahs
Wilmington, NC
51, joined Jan. 2012
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I almost always cook from scratch with things that are already in the kitchen.
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| 1/31/2012 11:09:27 PM |
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krasota23
Albuquerque, NM
67, joined Dec. 2008
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I cook from scratch ONLY.
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krasota23
Albuquerque, NM
67, joined Dec. 2008
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[Edited 1/31/2012 11:12:08 PM ]
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| 3/2/2012 12:41:55 AM |
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ladyvirtue1955
Redding, CA
96, joined Aug. 2009
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I make everything from scratch. nothing better than home made food.
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| 3/3/2012 1:48:03 PM |
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tionacho
Costa Mesa, CA
58, joined Dec. 2011
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Always! Doesn't everyone do it this way? No other way. No comparison to boxed.
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| 3/3/2012 4:01:51 PM |
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edirkan
Carrollton, GA
32, joined Feb. 2010
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Graduated from a culinary arts program in 03. I love to cook and think its tastes so much better than chemicals. Only thing right now is its cost prohibitive in my area. Especially for organic meats. Stopping here before I go on a massive rant lol. 
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| 3/3/2012 4:22:56 PM |
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shawnee_b
Edmonton, KY
62, joined Apr. 2010
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I raise grass fed Dexter cattle for beef Nothing on my pastures but flops and overseeding. No drugs, no nothing. Very healthy critters. Catfish in my pond
Place in TN sells Dexter beef. http://www.freedomfarmdexters.com/Heritage_Beef.html
And yes OP, scratch is the only way for me too
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| 3/5/2012 3:56:24 AM |
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ace418
Annapolis, MD
34, joined Aug. 2011
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My son has a ton of food allergies. So I usuually do a lot of stuff from scractch. He has allergies to gluten, casien (whey, most dairies) But he can have butter and I make organic whip cream from scratch that he can have. He is also allergic to soy, nuts and peas. My mother decide afer a few years of watching me do all this baking from scratch that she would start a company doing gluten, soy and nut free baking stuff. SO it has made it a little bit easier on me. I just go to her house and get the baking mixes I want and go from there. But I do homemade breads and cookis and pies and pizzas.
I actually have a loaf of bread in the oven right now. It takes about an hour or so between mixing, proofing and baking the bread. But it sure turns out great.
i go into anaphylactic shock if i eat soy protein. my mom accidentally discovered it when i was an infant and began teaching me to cook at age four. by six i was cooking her breakfast in bed. by 14 i was cooking professionally in kitchens. at 21 i went to culinary school and at 24 i became an executive sous chef in control of six restaurants. my allergies are my biggest weakness but they showed me my greatest strength. The fourteen years head start i had in learning to cook gave me a more sophisticated pallet and a huge advantage over others in my field. scratch cooking has saved my life and it has given me a life. if your kids have allergies teach them to cook at a young age. in todays world its a necessity.
~Ace
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| 4/1/2012 12:08:34 PM |
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babe528
Burr Hill, VA
39, joined Mar. 2012
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I love cooking from scratch .Food taste lot better,have passion fo cooking too.
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| 4/4/2012 1:11:01 PM |
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saruman256
Belleville, IL
61, joined Jun. 2007
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No processed food for me anymore, I cook from scratch the way my grandmother used to.
Tastes way better, too.
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| 4/5/2012 12:11:08 PM |
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love2bbq
Iowa City, IA
57, joined Mar. 2011
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i cook as much as i can from scratch sometimes its just the time i dont have to do so
i would like to make all my pasta fresh but i dont have a pasta maker so i buy
my pasta, i do the same with my tomato sauces because i am busy all day i cant
sit over a stove making sauce all day so there are my short cuts but i do make my
own sauce sometimes just to let you know.
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| 4/5/2012 5:13:51 PM |
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fleamarketboss
Schiller Park, IL
53, joined Apr. 2012
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i normally cook from scratch but there are days i just dont have the energy or the time but 4-5 days out of the week it is from scratch
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| 4/5/2012 11:33:35 PM |
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sunnygurl3719
Lynchburg, VA
42, joined Apr. 2012
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I grew up in a large family where ALL the women were good ole country gals who cooked from scratch out of necessity. I do like to read recipe books but mainly just for technique or new ideas, never for measurements! I can generally replicate anything from sight and taste. My granny always said, "Baby, if you gotta measure it then you ain't really cookin'!" lol- I am truly blessed to have recieved this rich inheritance of a genuine love for and knowledge of cooking. About the only foods that really allude me are french sous and dishes. However, I am currently working for an Indian, as in from the country of India, and am excited to be learning aabout so many new and exciting spices! I think my cooking ability is going to jump to a whole new level. Granny never imagined the dishes I would be preparing but I know she would have loved them! Scratch cooking is really an art that is handed down in apprenticeship fashion from master to novice. Once you understand the art or "feel" of the thing, you can branch out in so many new and exciting directions. I love scratch cooking and am truly blessed to be a practioner of this rapidly disappearing artform.
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| 4/6/2012 10:14:27 PM |
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cntrygrlnxdr2
Poughkeepsie, NY
51, joined Mar. 2011
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I love to cook, always from scratch and farm fresh. I love to cook for a group and I like to try new recipies with friends.
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| 4/9/2012 7:29:13 PM |
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24milkduds
San Francisco, CA
58, joined Mar. 2012
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Yep..I can cook from scratch..love to experiment..but I do use can tomatoes, olives and even kidney beans when i make chili...and use lots of garlic ( love garlic)...
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| 4/24/2012 4:47:01 PM |
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tcretiredhippie
Durand, WI
59, joined Apr. 2012
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Scratch all the way
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| 4/24/2012 5:43:27 PM |
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deejaygirl
Cincinnati, OH
45, joined Oct. 2009
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Meeeee lol i cooked from scratch today made homemade egg rolls with my chicken & shrimp stir-fry - came out 
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| 5/29/2012 11:23:34 PM |
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sunnygurl3719
Lynchburg, VA
42, joined Apr. 2012
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| 5/29/2012 11:59:09 PM |
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hotchef27
Nellysford, VA
35, joined Aug. 2010
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i try to when i can at work
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| 5/30/2012 2:09:38 PM |
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mayan_2012
Bridgewater, MA
40, joined Mar. 2012
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| 6/2/2012 7:29:06 PM |
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cvmnsink2
Portland, OR
30, joined Apr. 2012
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i do all the time.
cooking and singing are the biggest passions i have.
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