One of the main reasons for this web-site is to help encourage cooks everywhere to prepare more wholesome meals at home and rely less on take out or processed ingredients.  My body simply cannot tolerate some additives and preservatives found in many foods on the grocery shelves.  MSG or MonoSodium Glutamate is found in countless […]

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One of my favorite dressings is not one I can purchase at the grocery. But it is so very easy and is delicious over certain salads or served as a veggie dip. Here’s all you have to do: Mix equal parts Ranch Dressing (I had O’Charley’s) and Salsa (I used our recently canned salsa) together […]

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It was about a year ago when I registered the domain name taracooks.com, even though we did not have a web site ready for the public until November.  Well when it came time to renew this year I decided to move it to another web hosting provider because they had a newer version of WordPress […]

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I wanted to thank all of you who visited TaraCooks at Sherlock’s this past Thursday. I hope you enjoyed the demonstrations and found something sampled worthy of making in your own home. TaraCooks has been asked to return sometime later this year and we will try to get the word out in plenty of time […]

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Wow, we’ve certainly been busy lately.  Our oldest just graduated from high school.  Taracooks catered the graduation party the following evening.  The strawberries have been picked, frozen, and made into jam.  Cherries have been picked, pitted, and are waiting to be transformed into preserves.  We’ve put in another raised bed garden. And next week, we […]

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If you’re Tara’s Facebook friend you might have known that we had a surprise we were keeping secret for a little while. Yesterday the Wilson Post featured an article by Ken Beck about TaraCooks.com. Ken and his wife joined us for dinner one evening and we talked about the inspiration, origin and future plans for […]

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