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Taste of Home Magazine Review

by: Dan Joseph - CookingZines.com Editor

Taste of Home has become the barometer by which people judge recipes. It goes a little something like this: Someone brings a rice salad to a party and no one notices it until they mention the recipe came from Taste of Home. Suddenly everyone crowds around, adding the salad to their plates.

If you have ever experienced this, you know what we mean. The recipes in Taste of Home are usually good, simple to prepare and focus on family-friendly foods. Everyone knows the end result will likely be something tasty.

Each issue is literally loaded with recipes; most have more than 75 recipes, in fact. That’s a lot of recipes, but it’s not just the recipes that will keep you reading month after month.

Because all the recipes are submitted by readers (but extensively tested by the Taste of Home staff), they also come with a story. So you can enjoy the story of how a mom in Madison, Wisconsin came up with her famous vinaigrette recipe, or how a grandma in Richmond, Virginia always burned the first batch of her famous peanut butter cookies.

Taste of Home’s focus is basic, traditional recipes that most people – even most novice cooks – can prepare. Because there are so many recipes in each magazine, you’re sure to find the kind of recipe you’re looking for. There are simple recipes, as well as those that are more complex and require more ingredients.

Speaking of ingredients, most recipes only ask for ingredients that most of us can find on our local grocery store shelves. You won’t find trendy or unusual ingredients in this magazine’s pages, but really basic, common things that most of us have, or can easily get.

An example of recipes you might find in Taste of Home include: chili chicken enchiladas; batter-fried fish; Yankee pot roast; asparagus in vinaigrette; apple sweet potato bake; and golden raisin oatmeal cookies.

We give this bi-monthly delight a solid five out of five stars. We enjoy its emphasis on recipes even us regular folk can prepare and enjoy and its simple yet enjoyable design. We like that most of the recipes are accompanied by photos so we can see what our finished product should look like.

In particular we like that Taste of Home knows that while there’s room for celebration food (the great birthday or anniversary dinner) and we all need recipes now and then for parties (which Taste of Home provides tons of), most of us want to know what to cook for dinner tonight.

Thanks to that, we know that Taste of Home can feed us anytime – for special events like Sunday brunch and for dinner on a Wednesday when the kids need to get to soccer and you have choir practice.

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Reviews | Review this magazine

The Taste of Home magazine is perfect for anyone who wants a home cooked meal at a portion of the price while still maintaining flavor and excellence. Easy to follow instructions make sure you do not get stuck behind while trying to prepare the meal. Detailed instructions, lists, and ideas to make sure you get the best outcome while preparing the meal. This is perfect for a wonderful dinner no matter how many guests you're having over. Pick up the magazine today to find out how. Samantha A – Whitsett, NC