I love homemade food. Nothing tastes as good as homemade bread topped with butter and jam I made myself (now I need a cow). I won't touch the stuff they call pita at the grocery store. Homemade lasagne is better than what you can buy frozen at the store. Freshly ground peanut butter is delicious. Homemade yogurt tastes so much fresher. It's fun to make mozzarella and feta cheese. Applesauce is better when you cooked it yourself. Packaged stuff is not for me.
So why doesn't my five-year-old think so? He thinks it's great that I spin and crochet and quilt and sew, but I apparently can't be trusted to make decent food. :)
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I used to think it was the magic of commercial packaging that was dazzling my kids. Now I think it's the magic of the commercial flavoring industry, based in New Jersey, an outgrowth of the perfume industry there. Apparently, I believe every word I read in FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser.
Oh, I wish I could eat the homemade foods your five-year-old is rejecting. The Bohos are paying big money for the closest commercial substitutes, and I can't seem to find the time to make my own anymore of the ones I was good at. At least when I buy commercial jam, peanut butter, applesauce, bread, and dairy products I'm not giving in as much as buying Frozen Pepperoni Hot Pockets. I seem to be living with the Hot Pocket Lobby.
Can I please please please have your recipe for feta?
Johnna, I'm just glad my son hasn't figured out what Hot Pockets are yet. I don't think he's noticed that there is a whole world of food out there beyond commercial applesauce and bread and peanut butter.
Julie, I use this feta recipe: http://fiascofarm.com/dairy/feta.html
You do need a reasonable amount of equipment for cheese making, but feta is pretty simple to make at home, and doesn't require quite so many weird things. I've ordered from this site:
http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=281&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=713&iSubCat=805&iProductID=281
There are lots of places that sell this stuff. If either of the above links are weird, let me know and I could email them to you.
...amira said she was glad her son hasn't figured out what Hot Pockets are...
May this period of your life stretch long and languid. Now that my senior primary kids watch some t.v. with commercials and see packaged food at school, I find our family, even the very young ones, participates in substandard food culture.
I'm in a cooking slump this year. I'm still serving a meal at 5:30, but it's devolved to a tedious compromise between five eater's opinions.
You've discovered the true reason for our homeschooling. I'm protecting my children from Hot Pockets.
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