semi-homemade

alternative semihomemade

1. not comparablePartially homemade; for example, made at home with some store-bought ingredients, components, or subassemblies.

   She runs a semi-homemade gaming PC — it has been customized for more power, memory, and speed.

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   She prefers her own semi-homemade potting soil — she starts with one from the hardware store and then adds her own special compost.

   These provisions are considered in the blind illustrated by the diagram. This is a semi-homemade blind.

   1909, Bird-lore - Volume 11, page 71

   The next essential part of this semi-homemade process is a quantity of moist earth for banking around the jig while the metal is being poured.

   1922, The Blacksmith & Wheelwright - Volumes 85-86, page 28

   1. not comparablecookingBased on commercially available convenience food, which is then customized at home with some more ingredients, often ones that are less processed (such as chopped whole foods).

      Her favorite pancakes are semi-homemade — she starts with a certain premade pancake mix and then adds cinnamon, barley flour, and other treats.

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      Even the onion soup was semi-homemade, a bit salty, but better than many a pretentious French restaurant.

      1974, The Washingtonian - Volume 9, page 134

      The younger women, many whom were employed mothers, found the product's convenience appealing. Older women were more likely either to stick with homemade stuffing or to use Stove Top as the foundation to a semi-homemade product.

      1995, Gail Baker-Woods, Advertising and Marketing to the New Majority, page 72

      The more I thought about it, the better Jaxon 's little joke about Semi-Homemade sounded. On the way home, I dropped by KFC. Once home, I put the chicken in a pan, poured the cream of mushroom soup over it and cooked up a pot of rice.

      2008, Kimberly T. Matthews, A Little Hurt Ain't Never Hurt Nobody, →ISBN, page 113

      If moving to real foods all at once is too big a step, consider some hybrid meals as a transition, using both real and processed foods. Sandra Lee's “semi-homemade” cooking is an example of this approach.

      2011, William D. Lassek, Steven Gaulin, Why Women Need Fat, →ISBN

      While semi-homemade, 30-minute meals have sadly become de reigueur these days, they were a foreign concept to us.

      2011, Julia Usher, Julia M. Usher's Ultimate Cookies, →ISBN, page 7