There's something about a cozy weekend day spent at home with no real plans. Growing up, these were the kind of days when dad most often seemed to get a hankering to cook. This usually meant one of two things, a hodge podge dinner of foods dad liked (soup beans, hoecakes [fried cornbread] and macaroni salad [...? haha]), goulash (which I despised), meatloaf (revered as dad's specialty and a family favorite), or chili.

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