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homemade

[hohm-meyd]

adjective

made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.

made in one's own country; domestic: I prefer a homemade car to one of those foreign models.

made, contrived, or assembled by oneself; not professionally made or done; amateurish: the plain look of homemade furniture.

Origin:
1650–60; home + made

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When it comes to homemade bread, people can get intimidated.

Perhaps professors can help make those homemade videos better.

Watermarking can spot duplicate files, but not homemade pirated copies.

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When it comes to homemade bread, people can get intimidated.

Perhaps professors can help make those homemade videos better.

Watermarking can spot duplicate files, but not homemade pirated copies.

Homemade organic products support healthy skin care and the environment.

In fact, my homemade instrument can readily detect shifts a mere thousandth of the ambient field.

My friends had never tasted real homemade chocolate-chip cookies.

Fresh fruit pops are one easy step beyond homemade juice bars.

One way to enjoy it in the summer months is in homemade ginger ale.

Best ever: vanilla on hot fresh homemade rhubarb pie.

So far they are armed only with staves, stones and homemade mortars.

Whole families grab homemade nets of mosquito netting or cheesecloth and wade into the sea.

Some homemade remedies are ineffective and can even be detrimental to skin.

The populace lines up on the main thoroughfare to watch hours of marching bands, homemade floats and home-crowned royalty.

Prepared pesto makes this dish a snap, but you can use homemade if you have some on hand.

Sandwich makers load meat and cheese onto slabs of homemade bread.

It is much healthier to drink homemade slivovitz, rakija or uzo than to drink industrially made alcohol such as vodka, rum etc.

As an additional benefit, you can save money by making your own homemade carpet cleaners.

In urban settings, ready cooked meals fed tenement dwellers who may not have had the facilities to prepare homemade fare.

Cravings for homemade chili and freshly picked apples kick in.

Here's an instance where storebought is better than homemade.

Wright's homemade business cards that he discusses in the interview.

He ate homemade lunches, lived in a modest home, never seeking personal fortune.

To tint homemade lip balm, add a little juice from beets or cranberries.

He stands between shelves groaning with tea pitchers and homemade pies.

Often they would thank him by leaving bags of homemade treats-brownies and baklava-at the family's front door.

Spruce up the inside of your locker this year with a homemade magnet.

By having anonymous hands appearing and disappearing on the screen it all remains readable as a homemade game.

Homemade carpet cleaners are friendly to your family and the environment.

And there she was, wiping her hands on her homemade apron, come to the doorway to meet us.

Homemade organic baby food is easy and inexpensive to make.

Refrigerate homemade salsa in pasta sauce jars instead of buying commercially prepared salsa.

Make a homemade wood polish from equal parts vegetable oil and lemon juice, and rub onto furniture.

Homemade cleansers have an advantage as healthy replacements for the toxic chemicals in commercial cleaning products.

Homemade bins save money and often enable you to repurpose a container you might otherwise have discarded.

All of the fatalities were caused by homemade bombs that exploded while the soldiers were on patrol.

Go beyond the bun with homemade mustards that kick up potatoes, grilled chicken, and deviled eggs.

The idea is to use the spring mechanism of a standard mousetrap to power a homemade.

Making homemade sausages without the need for a grinder or sheep intestines.

She slipped off her mother's language and left it behind, the way a kid loses a pair of hateful homemade mittens.

For holiday gifts or a special treat, homemade candy is irresistible.

The days of homemade candied apples may be gone, but these days kids can rot their teeth with a wealth of weirdo treats.

Now, homemade ginger ale is appearing on drink menus across the country under happier.

For instance, frozen waffles are more expensive than homemade pancakes or steel-cut oatmeal.

At the county fair, near a display of homemade dresses and wrapped presents.

Learn how to make homemade jewelry out of items around the house.

Many of these submissions included homemade videos pleading their case.

Daddy would spend the day casting his net and fishing while us young' uns would crab with our homemade chicken neck bait lines.

Make our tasty, homemade go-bars for an energizing hiking snack.

Efforts at clearing the villages of homemade bombs during the previous three months had failed.

He was seated at a homemade wooden stand under a sign reading.

Big pieces of sourdough with homemade apricot and strawberry jams.

Paysanne offers creamy caramels, homemade popsicles, and tasty cookies.

They show off homemade silencers, fire custom-built.

Now, homemade ginger ale is appearing on drink menus across the country under.

Using in-season fruit, such as peaches, as a base to a simple homemade barbecue sauce is a great way to add a bit of surprise.

He wouldn't have known how densely placed the homemade bombs were without them.

Scioneaux's dinner table for a bowl of his homemade gumbo and a chance to listen to some of his studio recordings.

Homemade potting soil is more affordable than commercial blends, and you can more easily verify its ingredients.

Equally dubious were homemade armor plates bolted to some technicals.

Open summers, the cafe is known for family-style meals of homemade soup, and fried chicken.

Second, the vehicle is too flimsy to handle homemade bombs.

Watching his daughter on a homemade ladder smoothing varnish over the red-and-yellow trim of.

Make your own homemade cleaning solutions and store them inside the plastic containers.

We've traded from-scratch pie dough for homemade croutons, creating.

Or recycle the fabric into pieced quilt blocks for the top of a homemade quilt.

Boniere, or head down the street for homemade ice cream.

Scrub any fabric parts or accessories gently with the homemade brush, rinsing and wringing out as needed.

Here's our busy cook's take on a favorite appetizer, baked instead of fried, and with purchased dough instead of homemade.

Donate homemade wreaths to a residence for seniors, then volunteer to help decorate for the holidays.

Homemade beer is fresher than anything you can buy at a store, and with beer, freshness is key.

The teams proved this by slow-speed racing their homemade vehicles.

Oh, and dont forget the stump remover and confectioners sugar needed for the homemade rocket fuel.

Homemade mobiles are everywhere: clam shells on jute twine by the front door, colorful fishing lures downstairs.

Prepared pesto makes this dish a snap, but by all means, use homemade if you have it.

Lemon zest jazzes up store-bought or leftover homemade pesto in this bright and flavorful summer supper.

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WordNet

homemade
adjective
made or produced in the home or by yourself; "homemade bread" [ant: factory-made]

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