Nothing beats homemade....

[Comealongpond89]

Egg mayo sandwich. Eating one now. Still a bit warm and really gooey. Nom nom.

What is it for you that is always best made at home instead of shop bought or restaurant?

Nothing beats homemade...except when I've made it!

Cup of tea for me

Srsly, no posh hotel, trendy cafe, cute BnB or award-winning artisan tearoom can come close to a cuppa made in my own mug by me.

Everything I better made at home, but especially Yorkshire pudding!

The assertion that everything tastes homemade is surely dependant on the home maker?

Well yes, I think having some manner of skill in the kitchen is implied.

Rice pudding is another one! Can't stand ready made.

Birthday cake and cupcakes

Lasagne, spaghetti Bol and carbonara (unless you get lucky in a REALLY good Italian restaurant)

Sandwiches - I have not once had a shop sandwich that was even slightly tasty! What is with that?!

Hunters chicken

Cake

buckeejit I would really recommend the Annie Mae’s Mac & Cheese book which has amazing recipes if you’re an obsessive like I am

(It also includes a recipe for something called Trailer Park Pie - imagine shepherds pie but replace the mince with chilli and the potato with macaroni cheese. Best. Thing. Ever)

All food tastes better homemade

depends on whose home....some of my homemade food is fucking woeful, to be honest. Tesco finest beats some of my dishes hands down!

Cup of tea

Pasta sauce

Chili (mine has loads of ingredients but no recipe)

Soup

Welshcakes (must be eater before they cool)

Scones

My mother was horrified at one family party (about 40 years ago) when my father's aunt, not known for her tact and diplomacy , announced to the gathering that my mothers home made sponge cake (mother is justified in considering herself a good cook, especially of cakes ) was "nearly as good as bought"

Its been a standing joke in our family ever since

You know what doesn’t taste good homemade? Rice pudding. Can’t stand it made.

Is there a ‘what doesn’t taste good home made’ thread yet?

Cake (but I do make good cake!)
Roasties
Yorkshire Puddings
My Husband's Lasagne
Tea

Now I'm hungry

Sausage rolls. The shop bought ones are rubbish.

Soup
Crumble
Jam
Bread

Special homemade requests in this house are:-

Pizza
Scones - still warm from oven
Baked gammon, for sliced Ham
Raisin & Oatmeal Cookies

However, a treat is a bag of Jam Doughnuts from Sainsbury's, homemade aren't the same apparently, they lack the sweet claggy-ness.

Cakes, roast dinner, lasagne, spaghetti Bolognese, cottage pie.

Cheesecake. We're perpetually disappointed with shop bought cheesecake.

Indian curry - my korma is even better than the takeaway yellow slop you get everywhere. I don't take credit for that - it's all about that base!

Chips - nowt better than hm chips.

Mmmm chips! 😋

Greek yogurt.

Indian curry - my korma is even better than the takeaway yellow slop you get everywhere. I don't take credit for that - it's all about that base!

Would you be happy to share? I love korma but have never found a good recipe.

Pizza

Although it took me ten years to finally get the hang of it and I use 2 ingredient dough. If anyone has a fool proof recipe for decent pizza dough i’d be forever grateful!

Apple pie, if the person making it is my mum.

Indian samosas, curry and bhajis all taste much better home-cooked than from a takeaway, as long as the person cooking them isn't me because I can never get the spices right .

Agree also on roasties, scones, bread and lasagne.

Have to differ on pizza - you can't beat Dominos in my book!

Jam. Shop jam isn't worth buying, even the fancy ones or the farm shop type. Marmalade the same.

Of course Purple! Im at the hairdresser just now ( getting those bloody roots done again) but I'll pop back on with it later.

Most foods but especially millionaires shortbread. I can’t abide the cloying tasteless offerings you find in shops - they have a mushy texture and you can tell the cheapest ingredients have been used to churn out en mass as much bang for buck as possible.
Same as a lot of convenience food really.