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home cooking; home-style cuisine; everyday family meals
Food prepared at home for the family, as opposed to restaurant or professional cooking. Emphasizes simplicity, comfort, and everyday practicality. Also used by restaurants to describe a homey, unpretentious style of cooking.
母の家庭料理が恋しい。
I miss my mother's home cooking.
あのレストランは家庭料理のような温かい味が人気だ。
That restaurant is popular for its warm, home-cooking-style flavors.
日本の家庭料理といえば、肉じゃがや味噌汁、焼き魚などが代表的だ。
Speaking of Japanese home cooking, dishes like nikujaga, miso soup, and grilled fish are typical.
USAGE:
Often evokes nostalgia and warmth. Restaurants and cafes sometimes use 家庭料理 in their name or description to signal a cozy, unpretentious atmosphere.
Representative Japanese 家庭料理 includes 肉じゃが (meat and potato stew), 味噌汁 (miso soup), 卵焼き (rolled omelet), 煮物 (simmered dishes), and 焼き魚 (grilled fish).
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 日本の家庭料理 (Japanese home cooking)
- 家庭料理の店 (a home-cooking restaurant)
- 家庭料理の味 (the taste of home cooking)
- 定番の家庭料理 (standard home-cooked dishes)