New Web site

Home Cookin' 2 Go is proud to announce our new Web site. Tom and James(local web designer) have been working hard to put together a Gr8 new site for your viewing pleasure. Go to www.homecookin2go.com for a sneek preview. The site should be going live real soon.

Once again, a great big THANKS goes out to all of our loyal friends and to the new friends we have not yet met.

Tom and the crew.

Eating the Elephant

You have heard the question, "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer is, "one bite at a time." This metaphor applies to achieving any big goal, as well. How do you achieve a huge goal? You accomplish it one step, one task, one measure at a time.

When you invest an extra one or two hours per day in self-improvement, the cumulative effect on your greater ability to get results can be extraordinary.

taken from "Time Managment Success" by Brian Tracy International

Under Construction . . .

Home Cookin' 2 Go is getting ready to release a new web presence. Soon there will be a whole new website where our customers can go and see the whole menu, just as it appears in the 'flesh' at our Van Dyke location. We will have other features like a map supported on the Google platform. A link will take you directly to our email address. And lots of other cool stuff I am not allowed to mention at this point. Tom has been working closely with a local web developer, James, to make sure that the site lives up the quality and expectations of our philosophy on good food at a good value, as well as creating a site that is easy for our friends to use. If you have been in the 'shop' for food or have been meaning to stop by and see what we are all about, then you are our friends. At Home Cookin' 2 Go there are no strangers, just friends we have not yet met.

At Home Cookin' 2 Go (hc2g) we fully understand that there has to be value for your buck in these hard times. That's why Tom has been putting together some new items for you to try. OUR NEW DAILY MENU CHOICES ARE: Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo, Mostaccioli w/ Meat sauce, Beef Stew, all served with soup or (by popular demand) a dinner salad and a dinner roll. Open faced Hot Roast Beef or Turkey sandwich, served on our fresh baked bread smothered in gravy. COMING SOON; Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwiches, and Gyros.

Tom is always coming up with new ideas and with the holidays fastly approaching, we are offering a complete Thanksgiving Dinner to those of you who don't want to, or otherwise can't find the time to prepare a large meal.You can pre order a 10 to 14 pound or a 15 to 20 pound turkey with all of the trimmings today. Call us for more details.

Change the Menu . . . Are You Mad????

So here we are, Friday, August 21st, 2009. Home Cookin' 2 Go has been open for 7 weeks. WOW! The response we have had from the community has been so wonderful, it is hard to put into words. Thanks is about all we can say. Thanks for your awesome support. We are lookin' forward to cookin' great food at a great price for ya' for a long time to come.

As everybody knows, "menu items are subject to change". I know you have heard this before and it is time for some change @ Home Cookin' 2 Go. We have been monitoring the menu items and after carefully checking the numbers and doin' the math, there have been a couple of modifications to the menu.

We no longer have a Pastrami grinder and the pastrami sandwich is now know as the Romeo and Juliet. In its place, we have added Shane's favorite; Bruchetta (or Pizza Grinder). You gotta' try one of these babies, mmmm!!

The grilled cheese sandwich is (by popular demand) now a grilled Ham and Cheese sandwich. The classic grilled cheese sandwich just got better with a heap of thin sliced Black Forest ham.

Other subtle changes are the Oven Baked Chicken Dinner is now a Grilled Boneless Chicken Breast still served with smashed red skins with gravy and corn.

We're pretty sure that these new items will quickly become your new favorites. And we are not done yet!! Stay tuned for more, new and improved items. So we'll see 'ya soon and as always, we welcome your comments and suggestions . . . either leave a comment here or next time you stop in. We love hearing from 'ya . . . until next time

Droppin' a line . . .

We at Home Cookin' 2 Go want to thank you for all your support so far. Today, Thursday, August 13 marks our 5 weeks of operation. We are very grateful and humbled by all of the fantastic feedback we have gotten thus far. If you haven't noticed, we are strugglin' a bit to keep up with the demand for our baked goods(i.e. cookies, breads, over the moons, chocloate covered brownies). We are working hard to find the best way to have the best product possible. Bakin' our own breads, grinder rolls and onion rolls has proved to be a bit more than we bargained for. We will get it smoothed out. Stayed tuned for some minor tweeks to the menu and Tom will be expanding the Daily Specials in the very near future.

Thanks Again for all your support and we'll see ya' soon . . .

Home Cookin' 2 Go is located @ 66850 Van Dyke Ave.
Washington Township, MI 48095
phone; 586-336-9290
fax; 586-336-9291

Thanks for signing up on our Email List!!

Well now, here we are. Home Cookin' 2 Go on the net. If you are visiting us from our email list, thanks for stoppin' in. We appreciate your interest in our new place and this is just the begining. Home Cookin' 2 Go is the product of a passion for serving great food to great people at a great price. We are so happy that you're here. . .

Take a look around, spend a few minutes, leave a comment. Be sure to bookmark us or add us to your favorites.

Our menu is here for your review. We will be updating frequently. Tell us what you want to see or what's on your mind. We are advertising in the Peach Festival Guide published by the Advisor Source as well as a couple of other publications, so look for our ad and valuable coupon.

Once again, your email addy is safe with us. We promise to never give it out or mis-use it in any way. We hate spam just as much as you do and we ain't talkin' canned meat . . .

Email List

If you would like to get weekly updates on what is new with "Home Cookin' 2 Go" add your email address to the comments and we will put you on our list. We will be happy to send you the latest offers and one thing we can guarantee, your address will be safe and spam-free.

If you would rather not leave a comment with your addy, you may send a message to homecookin2go@wowway.com

As always, you can fax your order to 586-336-9291 and we will have it ready for you when you get here.

Thanks and have a gr8 day!!

Home Cookin' 2 Go hours

Thank you to all of you who have stopped in for some "Home Cookin' 2 Go". We appreciate all the friendly faces and warm welcomes.

We are excited to be 'the new place in town' and our hours of operation will be as follows; Monday - Thursday 11am - 8pm, Friday and Saturday 11am - 9pm.

We accept Master Card and Visa for your convenience

Just the fax man . . .

At "Home Cookin' 2 Go", we want to provide a good meal prepared just like you would cook it if you had the time. We know everybody is pressed for time these days, and we want to make sure that you and your loved ones can eat great food at a great price even when you are busy.

Fresh baked bread, whole wheat, white, rye, sunflower seed whole grain, cinnamon raisin, sour dough, and pumpernickel loaves are mixed up right in our kitchen and baked fresh so you can enjoy it at home like you just baked it yourself. Also try our cookies and cakes. If you like carrot cake, you're gonna love Tom's family recipe with butter cream frosting made from scratch. Lori bakes some of the best cookies in town and the banana bread is to die for.

If you have to find something for lunch, you can fax us your order @ 586-336-9291. We will fax you back to confirm your order and you can save time by ordering ahead of time. Just let us know what time you will be in and we will have it ready for you . . .

Fresh baked breads, rolls, pizza, grinders and Home Cookin' 2 Go comes to Romeo

Woodland Center Strip-mall, just south of 31 mile road on Van Dyke Avenue in Washington Township. That's where you can find the new Home Cookin' 2 Go take out restaurant. Their mission statement says;

"Our goal is to offer our guests the best of the basc home favorites. We've put together a menu of our tested recipes from soups to desserts and everything in between. We Bake all of our breads and rolls fresh every day for our menu and offer them for you to take home to enjoy as well."

Some of our menu items are as follows.

SOUPS;
French Onion, Chili, Chicken Noodle everyday and at least 3 other soups Daily - all home made. Look for Chicken Tortilla, Clam Chowder, Loaded Baked Potato, Italian Wedding and other favorites. All of Tom's Top Notch Recipes and all made from scratch.
Bowl 1.95 Quart 4.95

SALADS
Full 6.50 Half 3.50
Our salads are served with a fresh baked dinner roll.
Antipasto; Our greens blend, add salami, ham and capocolo, and top with mozzarella and asiago cheeses and finish with tomato, red onion and black olives. Italian dressing served on the side.

Chef Cobb; Our house greens blend, topped with diced chicken, cheddar cheese, crisp bacon, hard boiled egg, tomato, green pepper rings and sliced cucumber. Your choice of dressing served on the side.

Chicken Caesar; fresh romain greens, croutons, and fresh grated parmesana, and topped with chicken breast, red onion rings and tomatoes, our gourmet caesar dressing is served on the side.

Bread Sticks; six fresh out ofo the oven garlic bread sticks served with ranch or pizza sauce. Full order 2.50

SANDWICHES 4.95
served with potato chips and a pickle

Reuben; Your choice of corned beef or oven roasted turkey on grilled rye, with swiss cheese, cole slaw and thousand island dressing.

Meatloaf; Our Prize winning meatloaf, hand pattied and then baked. Served on a fresh baked onion roll with your choice of cheese.

King of Clubs; A triple decker with oven roasted turkey, ham, swiss cheese, crisp bacon, lettuce, tomato and our house mayonaise.

Romeo and Juliet; Shaved thin pastrami, piled high on an onion roll with swiss cheese and cole slaw.

Loose Burger; Our version of the popular Sloppy Joe with cheddar cheese served on an onion roll.

Grilled Cheese; Our mozzerella blend, cheddar, and american cheese, grilled with seasoned butter on sourdough bread.

Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato; On toased sourdough bread with mayonaise.

DESSERTS
All of our desserts are made in house from scratch. No frozen cookie dough, pudding from a box or thaw and serve anything. Thats a promise. Also, they're all individual size servings and priced accordingly. At Home Cookin' 2 Go there's always room for dessert.

OVEN BAKED GRINDERS 5.95

We begin with one of our fresh-baked daily hoagie rolls, and build your sandwich with the freshest ingredients available. All of our grinders are then baked in a brick oven, finished to your specifications and served with potato chips and a pickle spear.

Steak and Cheese; Hand sliced rib eye steak, seasoned and then grilled with onion, green and red bell peppers and muchrooms and topped withour mozzerella cheese blend. Add banana peppers if you like for no extra charge.

The Sicilian; Piled high with ham, genoa salami, capocolo and our mozzerella cheese blend and baked. Finished with sredded lettuce, tomato slices, and if you like, pepper slices or black olives. Our house dressing is served on the side.

Chicken Parmigiano; Shredded chicken breast, in our zesty marinara sauce, topped with parmigiano, assagio and our mozzerella blend cheeses.

The Ultimate Club; Filled with sliced ham, hand carved turkey breast, crisp bacon slices and swiss cheese and baked. Finished with shredded lettuce, tomato and mayo on the side.

Roast Beef and Cheddar; Have you tried our pot roast dinner? Now try the same oven roasted beef in a grilled hoagie roll smothered with sharp cheddar cheese. Tell us if you would like to add bar-b-que sauce.

ANYDAY DINNER ENTREES; All of our dinner entrees come with a potato and vegetable suited for that particular meat or poultry. Of course we could switch them around, however we would rather you try it the way we suggest.

With each Dinner Entree you get your choice of soup (6oz. bowl) and dinner roll.

POT ROAST; A large portion of choice roast beef, slow cooked for several hours, served with roasted potatoes and carrots, Just like Grandma used to make it! $8.00

MEAT LOAF; Lori's special family recipe. Served with mashed redskin potatoes and corn. $7.00

TURKEY DINNER; Thanksgiving dinner anytime. A generous portion of hand carved roasted turkey, bread stuffing, mashed redskin potatoes and gravy, corn and cranberry sauce too! $8.00

BABYBACK RIBS; Slow cooked 'till they fall off the bone. Smothered in Tom's own Bar-B-Que sauce, served with potato wedges and cole slaw. $9.00

BAKED CHICKEN; Herb roasted half chicken, served with two fluffy dumplins with gravy and corn $7.00

PORK ROAST DINNER; A heafty portion of slow roasted pork roast, served with smashed redskin potatoes and gravy, corn and apple sauce. $8.00


PIZZA
We keep it Good 'n Simple. Round stone hearth baked Italian Style Crust with the freshest ingredients available.


Ten" Sixteen"
Six Cheese $5 $7
One or Two Item $6 $8
Three to Five $8 $10
Meat Lovers $9 $12
Meat Haters $9 $10

Speciality Pizzas include; Hawaiian, Coney Dog, Southwestern and more . . .

We really hope you enjoy your meal as much as we enjoy preparing it for you . . .

Press release 6-8-2009

Home Cookin’ comes to Romeo, Michigan
Monday, June 08, 2009

Home Cookin’ 2 Go was founded in 2009 by Tom and Lori Potrzuski at 66850 Van Dyke in Romeo, Michigan. The couple came up with the concept after thinking about the fact that it so hard to find good food at a reasonable price from a carry out style restaurant. Both Tom and Lori were entrepreneurial types and saw an opportunity when it was presented to bring a fast, friendly, cost effective ‘other choice’ to the Romeo area. They found a nice little spot to add their special touch and bring in some great menu items.

Tom learned the restaurant business working part time while still attending high school. His service to his country in the United States Navy was dedicated to Mess Management (Navy for cooking). When he departed from the Navy he found himself raising a family on the Western coast of Florida working for new, up and coming companies like Bennigans’ and small independent kitchens as well. The River Wilderness Country Club was Tom’s last stop in Florida where he spent several years cooking for course pro Paul Azinger.

Tom found his way back home to Michigan and it wasn’t long before he was advancing quickly with the Mr. B’s group. He opened several locations for Mr. B’s and got the places up and running as well as launching his own bagel shop in Lake Orion, Michigan in the mid 90’s. Tom and Lori have so much experience in the food business that opening a place to share their talents only made sense. They have brought those talents to Romeo with the philosophy that “There are no strangers here, only friends we have not yet met”. You will most likely bump into your friends or neighbors when you drop in for some tasty carry out or one of the dozens of fresh baked breads and tantilizing deserts. They have taken care of all the cooking for you so that your busy schedule doesn’t have to limit your dinning options.

Over the years, Tom has expanded and perfected his menu. His pizzas are sure to receive numerous awards and his customers keep coming back for more! Home Cookin’ features New York Style pizza and it is a "must try". His five cheese pies tempt with a "pound of cheese". They are turning out pizza for the meat lovers or for meat haters. Oven toasted grinders and premier salads ready to go in minutes. Take out specialities include a spectacular Pot-roast dinner, pork roast, or oven roasted turkey, all with potato and a vegetable appropriate for the meat selection in addition to one of the six home-made soups daily. BBQ ribs melt in your mouth, are tender and meaty and smothered in a special BBQ sauce recipe that has no match!

Stop in today and pick up your Home Cookin’ 2 Go . . .



By David Alan 6-8-09