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I'm actually gonna say no Isaac Send a noteboard - 09/03/2010 04:27:16 PM
I made a soup last night. I made it at home, but I feel that I cheated. I used reconstituted organic low sodium bouillon instead of boiling the bones to make the broth.

Can it still be considered "homemade"? Is this tasty dish I made for dinner last night somewhere in food limbo between homemade and processed simply because I chopped veggies and added meat? :P



Either no, or 'barely', but this isn't really a bad thing either, it's just soup. Your 'limbo state' between homemade and processed seems about right.

I use bouillon all the time when making soup, I buy my chicken as boneless breasts so rarely do I have the ingredients for making stock and I eat a lot of soup, and I've never noticed a difference.

But I'll say no just because with most soup, there's really only three levels of making it. A) Heating it from a can, B) using pre-made broth or bouillon and just dicing meat and veggies, or C) actually boiling down stock. Considering making stock is the most time and labor intensive, and actually focuses around the core concept of soup - using leftovers - then doing it this way has to be considered the 'truest' method short of growing the components yourself which is gardening and livestock manging, not cooking.

So I won't cry foul on someone calling it 'homemade' if they use bouillon, but realistically there's not much difference between A and B compared to B and C. I regularly toss in veggies just when making Campell's chicken noodle, and I'd never call that homemade, but it's no different then B. I wouldn't call make a Noodle-Roni Pasta dinner homemade either, just because I tend to toss vegetables into while I'm cooking it.

Can you call it part of a homemade meal? Yeah, but not in of itself really a legit stand-alone homemade item. Your just dicing some stuff and throwing it in a pot. A sandwich isn't homemade because it was made in your kitchen, but if you baked the bread yourself, then it is.
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/survey about "Home made" food. - 09/03/2010 02:49:05 PM 442 Views
You didn't make the bouillon, but you made the soup. - 09/03/2010 02:57:44 PM 268 Views
exactly - 09/03/2010 03:05:48 PM 257 Views
And even then - 09/03/2010 03:10:43 PM 281 Views
i'm hungry too - 09/03/2010 03:20:57 PM 251 Views
It's home made. - 09/03/2010 03:23:37 PM 287 Views
well that does fit the literal definition *NM* - 09/03/2010 03:43:10 PM 165 Views
Re: It's home made. - 09/03/2010 05:55:44 PM 251 Views
I'm actually gonna say no - 09/03/2010 04:27:16 PM 341 Views
- 09/03/2010 04:39:56 PM 246 Views
probably depends on how you define homemade - 09/03/2010 04:48:00 PM 255 Views
That's why I like her 'limbo state' - 09/03/2010 05:19:49 PM 321 Views
I am frequently in said "limbo state". *NM* - 09/03/2010 05:22:36 PM 123 Views
Re: That's why I like her 'limbo state' - 09/03/2010 05:30:15 PM 255 Views
Yeah, I'm in Limbo a lot too - 09/03/2010 05:47:03 PM 314 Views
I'm generally a garden snob too. *NM* - 09/03/2010 05:55:04 PM 115 Views
Re: probably depends on how you define homemade - 09/03/2010 05:36:10 PM 262 Views
I think there are more than three levels. - 09/03/2010 04:53:12 PM 293 Views
I disagree - 09/03/2010 05:31:03 PM 293 Views
Yay common ground - 09/03/2010 05:42:54 PM 283 Views
frozen stock, FTW! o/ - 09/03/2010 05:48:21 PM 256 Views
Yes, your soup is a lie - 09/03/2010 05:59:52 PM 253 Views
Really? - 09/03/2010 06:17:47 PM 254 Views
Probably just never noticed them, not really in the market - 09/03/2010 06:28:23 PM 254 Views
heehee - 09/03/2010 05:39:38 PM 229 Views
I know right? - 09/03/2010 05:48:54 PM 288 Views
not "from scratch" but homemade *NM* - 18/03/2010 10:41:25 PM 113 Views
cheater - 19/03/2010 04:38:47 AM 231 Views
*NM* - 19/03/2010 01:21:24 PM 129 Views

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