Once when I posted a recipe for homemade hand cream, someone commented something like “I don’t know how you call that homemade when you made it from storebought ingredients”. Since then, I’ve wondered .. really . . what is homemade? Is a lemon pie homemade if I bought the lemons instead of growing them myself? Is bread homemade if I used storebought flour instead of grinding the flour from wheat? Did I have to grow the wheat or could it have been storebought wheat that I ground myself? I suppose we must all decide but to me, if I mix up the ingredients at home, no matter where the separate ingredients came from, I consider it homemade!
I consider our entire breakfast to have been homemade. Heck, in this day, I would probably consider it homemade if you cooked it all from storebought ingredients but here’s what we had!
Glass Gem Corn
It all started with the dried corn from the Glass Gem corn I grew last summer. That was ground and made into grits.
Bread
Yesterday afternoon I was tired and realized we had no bread for toast. We had several varieties of bread but nothing plain jane for toast so I made a quick toasting bread.
Bacon
Bacon from a slab I had cured, smoked and sliced up yesterday.
Bacon
I had planned to use the big slicer but it’s heavy and it’s upstairs in the shop so . . I’ve been using a knife and it isn’t bad. Maybe when it’s time to slice the next batch, I’ll hand Vince the knife and I’m betting the electric slicer arrives in my kitchen in no time at all.
Eggs
Of course, there were eggs from our chickens. Vince gets 2 eggs. I get 2 egg yolks. The dogs get 3 bantam eggs and my egg yolks.
Breakfast
That’s what I call a homemade breakfast!
Ardelia W says
Yum, looks homemade to me.
Swooze says
Yum!
Karen langseth says
The bacon looks awesome. We are doing deer bacon today.
Tricia says
As always, it all looks delicious!
Julie says
That’s definitely a homemade breakfast! It all looks great!
Dar in MO says
Homemade is you doing it in your home with your own two hands. I know it was delicious too. Thanks for the link on the won tons. I am going to try those. I like everything you tried, soup, fried and desserts with them.
Cindy says
Your version of homemade is the same as mine. Even if I buy the ingredients I use in it, if I put it all together at home it’s homemade. Nothing beats homemade.
carla says
I encountered the ‘what is homemade’ gray area a few Thanksgivings ago. My sister declared that nothing be jarred, canned or boxed in what we brought for our contribution to dinner. And yet every spice comes out of a container, oil, milk, wine, etc. Pretty much any thing that is purchased and not from the produce section is packaged. I say if it is cooked at home, it is home made!!!