The Meals I Crave Most When I’m Away From Home
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I have a little bit of travel coming up over the next two weeks for Southern Living. I’ll be doing television appearances in Atlanta, GA and Houston, TX. The Atlanta segment will be filmed this week and air this Saturday during the 9:00 AM hour on WXIA and then I’ll be live on Great Day Houston during the 9:00 hour on October 25th. I’m so looking forward both of these and hope you’ll be able to tune in if you’re in the area.
As I get ready for a wee bit of travel (The Atlanta filming will only have me away from home seven hours!) I can’t help but think about last year on my book tour and all of that time away from home. Folks often ask me what my favorite meal is and so today I thought I’d show you the things I crave when I’m away from home. You’ll find I’m really a simple gal 🙂
#1.Spaghetti. I LOVE Spaghetti and you just can’t get anything like spaghetti at home when you’re on the road. Everyone wants to dress it up or put some odd meat in it. I just want plain old spaghetti with ground beef. This is the meal I make most on those days I’m home in time for supper.
#2.Chicken Planks, Meme’s Mashed Potatoes, and Fried Corn. Okay so when I’m on a book tour, the meal I am thinking about most is the one featured on the bottom right of my book cover, so it only stands to reason that it is the one I am wanting, after spaghetti, of course!
#3.Grandmama’s Fruit Salad – I could eat this every single day for the rest of my life and still not have enough.
So there you have it, my top three things I like to make when I get home from traveling.
I’ve gotten to eat at some pretty nice restaurants over the past few years but I gotta tell ya, I’ve yet to eat a restaurant meal that could hold a candle to anything cooked at home.
Your kitchen beats out any five star restaurant hands down – and the company surely can’t be beat.
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Gratefully,
Christy
What is your favorite meal at home?
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I miss my home style meatloaf and homemade scalloped potatoes. This is the dish both of my grown children would request on their birthdays.
Not away from home much but I too love spaghetti with the ground beef. Another comfort food is meat loaf that I make. So good!
Stay safe with all your travels and sounds like you are really busy!
We recently found ourselves in transition, relocating from one city to another that is a day’s drive between. So we were 4 months in a hotel with a microwave and small fridge and that’s it! Not allowed to use any plug in appliances it was a challenge for us to come up with healthy “fork” food we could eat on a daily basis. We came up with some unique and unusual ways to satisfy our taste buds! Our first meal here that we cooked once we got moved in was a Beef Brisket, potato salad, red beans & rice, dirty rice, green beans, & corn on the cob! It was so wonderful! It really triggered the taste buds going off like fireworks in my mouth! There is nothing like home cooked food! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, 4 months in a motel. That would have been hard!!
Yes at times it was harder than others! Looking forward to meeting you at the luncheon!
I am away from home sooooo much and I miss my country fried steak and gravy over rice or mashed potatoes with green beans and a salad.
Oh Janie, I would miss that too!!
I miss my homemade macaroni and cheese !! So creamy and tasty!
That is a favorite of mine as well LisaMarie!
I miss my husband’s scrambled eggs, biscuts, and sausage gravy the most when I am away from home. Something comforting about sitting around the table and talking with my husband and kids while eating this meal!
That sounds heavenly, on all counts!
I hardly ever leave home these days, but I think I crave good fried chicken the most when I’m away. Besides that, my husband would probably say hamburger steak since he’s a meat eater.
Have a safe trip with all your Southern Living travels Christy – looks like your schedule is gonna be crazy hectic now that you are working outside the home & I hope that where you are now, is everything that you ever dreamed it would be!! Hugs!
Thank you Mary! The great news is that Southern Living is really good to me! I have to fly out one day this week but I leave after I get the kids ready for school, then I will land back home at 1:45 in the afternoon, in time to make supper and pick them up! They’ll never even miss me.
I love hamburger steak, too!!! Mary, I really hope we get to meet someday. The hugs I wanna give you are piling up 🙂
That is so great Christy. Just remember all that traveling is still hard on your body though & remember to take care of yourself & don’t overdo it!