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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.
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).