Reviving The Lost Art of Old Fashioned Home Style Cooking

Old Fashioned home style cooking is rapidly becoming a lost art! How sad that is! There was a time when attending a church homecoming with dinner on the grounds was an event that you dreamed of for weeks in advance and reminisced about for weeks after. There were homemade pickles and relishes and homemade from scratch dishes of every sort. There was meatloaf and home fried chicken that the farm ladies had cut up themselves and floured and fried before coming to church. There was pot roast with carrots, potatoes, and onions with the best gravy you ever tasted in your life, meshed in all around that scrumptious meal in a pot. Then came the homemade yeast rolls and homemade biscuits and gravy and even homemade ice cream and deserts in every variety of homemade pies and cakes a person could ever want to imagine.

But my how times have changed! You go to a church homecoming these days and it’s in the fellowship hall and there are 7 bowls of Macaroni and Cheese (because that takes 10 minutes and costs less than $1) And boxed pies and cakes from the deli that look like they came over on the Mayflower. There’s usually a sliced ham but it was already baked and ready to slice when you brought it home from the grocery. OFTEN times already even sliced for you.

How absolutely lazy we have become!

But let’s bring back the lost art of old fashioned home style cooking.

It’s alive and well in Round Knob Canyon – and I hope it’s alive and well in your own homes!