Homemade Delights

My favourite foods without exception come directly from our own kitchen. I never enjoy restaurant fare as much as the dishes we make at home. They are the antithesis of my cooking with their liberal use of sugar and salt. I never add salt to any of my meals and when my wife makes cakes or buns she only ever uses half the amount of sugar in the recipes. The result of those decisions are meals and desserts which have subtle flavours and which are healthy for us at an age where good health is so important.

I cook chilli, a favourite dish of mine, a couple of times a month. It is spicy but not overpowering. We make our own pizzas from scratch, with M&S pizzas being the only ones that we will have as an occasional treat such as our 35th anniversary last Monday. They replicate that homemade quality. We make our own bread and rolls from scratch using a bread maker. This has greatly improved the quality and healthiness of our lunches as they don’t have preservatives and excess amounts of salt and sugar.

I know that a trip to a restaurant can be a great treat. I find that it occasionally gives an opportunity to get the family together as part of a birthday celebration or similar and helps to make it more of an event. However, for my 60th birthday this year I insisted on doing the cooking for everyone because I just love putting healthy great tasting food on the table. It’s fantastic for me to see everyone enjoying it. So, that’s why it’s homemade all the way for me.