/ck/ - Food & Cooking

No, my parents actually know how to cook.

Dear old mum couldn't cook but she still had the dignity to try.
Ended up just making the same handful of things over and over again, but there's no shame in that.

>>13104802
half and half id say. they cooked like that when they were lazy or probably on the rag

>>13104802
My parents rarely cooked. Only on special occasions. The nice thing about it is that you could mostly have whatever you wanted for dinner when you were hungry, as opposed to being forced to the table at a unified time.

>>13104809
this except my mother was an alcoholic and only bought bread and peanut butter/jelly for us to eat while she went out and ate at bars on her one night stand's credit card

Yes and no. There were definitely baked beans, canned green beans, canned soups, boiled vegetables and frozen hamburger patties

But they would have a few recipes they took great pride in. My dads special homemade ceasar salad dressing, my moms cauliflower curry soup etc etc

Christmas dinner was always the real deal turkey and all the sides from scratch

>>13104802
>Did your parents cook like this, /ck/?
they must have because that picture made me nostalgic as fuck.

My mom did the meatloaf with the ketchup glaze on top, usually with mashed potatoes and green beans or peas

>>13104828
That shit must be on the bread crumb can or something. My mom did that too.

>>13104802
I would have preferred canned veg to the boiled-to-shit unseasoned mush my parents made.

>>13104802
Nope. My parents were both chefs.

They're actually decent cooks in general but they still sometimes commit the sin of boiling things to death.

>>13104802
just missing Better Homes and Gardens ring binder cookbook
my mom makes good cornbread and baked mac and cheese tho.

>>13104802
Yeah my parents made the awful dry chicken

The only cooking my dad did was hotdogs, hamburgers, and chicken on the grill. Every now and again he'd do steak.

OP's pic sums my mom's cooking capabilities up. We ate a lot of boxed meals, frozen salisbury steaks with boxed mashed potatoes, canned vegetables, and countless cheap fastfood growing up. Her signature dish was "beef stew" which was ground beef in a pot with canned green beans, canned potatoes, canned carrots, and canned corn. She'd use the liquid from the cans and added more water to make it soupy then season it with a bit of salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder.

It was weird cooking for myself when I moved out. At first, I brought and cooked similar meals because it's all I ever knew. But then I realized I didn't have to eat that way, started buying fresh ingredients, and played around with spices. Now things are tasty.

Sometimes when they were tired, but they could both cook well when they had the time for it.

>>13104802
You leave Tuna Helper out of this, asshole

>>13104907
Good man.

>>13104816
based mom

fortunately the worst my parents ever fed me was cheap ass round steak marinated in italian dressing and overcooked on the grill

>>13104802
>Seasoned salt

Holy shit my mom puts this in every dish she cooks

>>13105365
Is she a nigger?

Fuck you OP, my mom didn't like cooking and we didn't have much money, but damn if she didn't try every single night. You'll miss your mother's shitty cooking when she dies, I guarantee it.

my dad makes good food for us but eats shit like pinto beans and mayo in hollowed out french bread and plain hotdogs for himself

There's literally nothing wrong with canned food.

>>13104802
More or less, yeah. My dad was way into "fine dining" and watched the Food Network all the time but didn't know how to cook anything that wasn't at least partially prefab. Introduced me to a lot of foods and nice restaurants at a young age though.

>>13104809
Parents who dont cook typically also dont buy groceries so not sure how you ate "whatever you wanted" unless you were that poor kid who'd go around begging for unwanted or leftover snacks from his friends.

>>13104816
Your mom was clearly a pioneering feminist. She sounds empowered and not weakened by her stupid kids.

>>13104802
I still cook like that sometimes. I'm no snob.

>>13104820
I can't eat caesar salad to this day. My partner would use the cheese around his unwashed dick instead of anchovies and feed it to our guests during Ru's drag race marathons. Like cannot do it to this day.

>>13105572
some foods can better than others

Canned beans are usually good but canned corn just doesn't sit right with me.

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>>13104839
meatloaf is peak comfy.

>>13104907
This was nice and wholesome. Does your mom still make her beef stew?

>>13105428
Nah your mom just hated you and wanted you to grow up a fat fuck that's why she couldnt be bothered to cook anything fresh and nutritious.

>>13105597
And yet somehow you still ended up here. Were your parents divorced?

>>13104802
My mom was a good baker. She made amazing cakes that my sister and I still reminisce about 15 years after her death. But her cooking was hindered by her irrational fear of rare beef as well as salt. Everything she made was either under-seasoned or, if it was beef, was like eating beef-tinged leather.

Once in a while my mom tried, just involved following the recipe from the book to the letter. Less cooking and more following instructions. The rest of the time was shit like shake n bake and boiled vegetables. She also acted like she was afraid of salt.

>add more than a tiny pinch of salt to a giant bowl of mashed potatoes
>"WHOA, ENOUGH ANON"

Now I cook whenever I visit and it's like mind boggling for her.

>"Wow, anon, where did you get this recipe?"
>I just threw in what seemed right
>"That's so weird, I don't get how you can do that."

Not even humble brag bullshit, my cooking skill is very much in the "fine" tier.

>>13105677
Or your mom is just a tastelet and impressed by your mediocrity.

>>13105660
Yeah, was raised by my dad since I was about 10. Alton Brown/Good Eats got me interested in cooking when I was a kid but I didn't really do any cooking until I moved out and worked in a few restaurants and a butcher shop. Now just a middling home cook but I can still cook circles around anyone else in my family. My mom is very impressed by basic shit like using fresh herbs in a dish.

>>13105693
I ended my post with stating that my cooking skill isn't all that impressive, why did you feel threatened?

My mom is and was a great cook. Based Italian families

>>13105677
>She also acted like she was afraid of salt.
Pretty common with Gen Xers. That said, I have to thank my mother for never having the salt and pepper shakers out on the table. I remember going out to a diner with a friend when I was in high school, and he unscrewed the cap on the salt shaker to pour it on his burger.

Salt and season in the pan, not on the plate. Your kids will appreciate it.

>>13105700
Cool. Glad your dad took an active interest in hanging out with you. Hope hes still around to enjoy your home creations.

>>13104802
No my mom was smart enough to realize we where poor and that food costs more. Everything from scratch. Time or money, pick one.

>>13104802
>say you like a dish one time
>"I made you your favourite!"
Thanks, Ma. I'm sorry I used to always say things were "okay" or "edible" like an edgy child.

>>13105730
lol we need a poor kids template that has rotisserie chicken McDonalds microwavable dinners and off brand soda/cereal on it

>>13105754
Oh, so you were one of those fancy double-income household latchkey kids, eh?

>>13105761
single working mom 5 kids 3 still at home living in grandparents basement thats set up as a home
i raised myself so yah latchkey

lemme guess you had both parents and a place of your own
i bet you even had your own bedroom

>>13104802
>growing up with white parents
ftfy op

>>13105778
Home? You were lucky to have a home! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of falling!

>>13105805
You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a corridor!

>>13105837
Mother fucker! I was homeless! I still am!

>>13105778
Sheesh anon how did your mom end up a single mom with 5 kids? Was she just a whore or did your dad die? Are you a nigger?

Mom could cook, but whenever she couldn't, dad made Hamburger Helper. It's good junk food.

>>13105851
>A REFERENCE JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE!

damn /ck/ is worst Yorkshiremen I've ever seen

>>13105852
got married to an abusive guy at 18 had 2 kids one the same year the other a couple years later
got married to another abusive guy after had 3 more kids one at 29 the other at 33 and me at 40
no nogs here just a mom with shit taste in men

>>13105858
I started it, but playing along seemed too forced.

>>13105870
Ever wonder if the problem wasn't actually everyone but her?

every """recipe""" had a shit ton of cream of mushroom soup

the broccoli with cheese was ok

>>13104802
No. my parents and my grandparents are excellent cooks (well my memaw and pawpaw past about 5 or so years ago). My dad, sister and I, all cook from scratch. However, the only thing on that list we have used is Lawry's(?) seasoning because it DOES taste good.

That's it, I've decided to go back to culinary now.

>>13104809
No dude this is called "my parents don't care about me enough to feed me" granted, I'm 27 now so I eat when I want to eat but if my mom is cooking dinner and it's something I like which is almost always something good, I go down and eat.

>>13105572
2nd, canned foods can normally last almost indefinite.

>>13105700
>Alton Brown/Good Eats
This is a man of culture

>>13105897
I dated an American and noticed that everything had either cream of mushroom or cream of celery. He also loved A1 sauce on everything.

>>13105903
A1 is gross, and if you have to add cream of [insert here] into anything more than once a month, you clearly have no idea how to cook and think the "cream of" line is good cause you heard it on food network

>>13105870
Ah I see. And did life turn out alright for you and your family all things considering?

>>13105906
I thought it was an American thing so just went along with it. His mom’s tuna casserole with cream of mushroom was super good though!

>>13105912
Lol, some people use it as a staple, like how Asians use rice with everything. I really couldn't tell you what my staple is, maybe garlic powder

>>13105916
Honestly the other thing ingredient that i think Americans overdo is bacon. Bacon in pasta, bacon in burgers, bacon in salads, bacon in soups, bacon in casseroles. Garlic salt is fine. I sometimes prefer it to fresh garlic. I notice you guys love your Italian seasoning too. Not sure what to use that one for but I’ve seen it added to everything from pastas to soups to chillis.

>>13105925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-AdJ5c37o

Bacon is nice but sometimes it's TOO much. I don't get my own country's obsession with it either. Then again, I actually pay the fuck attention to what I'm thinking and think to myself "Do I need to be eating fatty stuff and cause myself a heart attack?"

>>13105892
nah my dads a sociopath
but my moms pretty much the same more leaning towards narcissistic shes in a very healthy relationship now though
>>13105907
my half brother is extremely successful and redefined cyber security he works in the film industry now though
my half sister married a ceo whos the family patriarch and now that her kids are grown up she does freelance remodeling for offices
my other two sisters are both stay at home moms for very wealthy businessmen
and even though on paper i should be doing very well im probably going to end up killing myself

>>13105948
brb just sifting through my algorithms dox incoming

>>13105951
kek

>>13104802
My dad yes but he was a truck driver with a high school diploma so his cooking was boiling prepackaged food. My mom with a master's degree cooked all the time but she never really used salt because she is afraid of high blood pressure. Despite the lack of salt she knew how to use other seasonings so the food wasn't half bad.

Parents who are more educated are more likely to cook properly for their family.

>>13104802
>single man cuisine

>>13104802

Thankfully, no. When I was very young, my parents both cooked often and well. My dad was the better cook and before long my mother stopped cooking so much (Or very well, guess she got lazy). Still, I was involved in the kitchen early and then I learned much more advanced things from my father as time went on. I was always helping and I would cook entire dinners for the family regularly.

I'm extremely grateful that my parents both fed me well as a kid and also taught me to cook and prepare great food.

>>13104802
Dad dis know how to cook and would make all sorts. Of things. Sometimes that backfired like when he made this dish that was some shitty cuts of beef boiled with potatoes and carrots, I still hate it.
Mom didn't know how to do anything, she was mentally 15 years old. I still remember her Sheppard's pie, unseasoned ground beef with mashed potatoes and mayo microwaved to hell (yes the mayo was microwaved too).
I hated the its a mom makes dinner night

my parents are decent but we did do a laughable taco night once a week for many years

flour tortilla
ground beef with a taco seasoning packet
cheddar cheese melted inside
dipped in ketchup

sometimes if my dad thought he was being fancy he would get sour cream and salsa

>Did

No, my mom cooked pretty well when I was growing up and save for the occasional thing like some Kraft mac n cheese and other kid things, generally made food from scratch . Now however, pretty much everything is frozen and canned, combination of stop giving a fuck and my dad unironically loving to eat shitty food despite formerly being a cook. He can live on Stouffers meals and French Bread Pizzas and be happier than a pig in shit.

>>13104807
Based :')

>>13105948
No dont do that :) I'll be your friend anon!

>>13106025
How did your truck driver dad end up convincing your masters degree mom to marry him? Is her masters in african american history or something?

>>13105805
and we went up hill both ways a mile in the snow to use the bathroom

>>13104802
Yes they were muppets. Mum didn't season anything and dad made 'risotto' with basmati, tasted like mush

OP here. Seeing a surprising lack of boomers crying about how their parents should get a participation trophy for their overboiled broccoli. Good job /ck/

My dad only takes us out to eat and my mom was okay at cooking. She rsrely made stuff hommade but when she did it was pretty good. She really improved when I started cooking because I mogged her quite quickly. Now she makes good food.

>>13104907
Just out of curiosity did your health drastically improve once you started cooking

>>13105714
My parents are actually from the silent generation and baby boomer
My Mom would eat lots of eggs or no eggs depending on what the mainstream media decided to say.
>Eat two eggs and make 24 deviled eggs
>”I heard they’re really good for you!”
>Can’t find a fuckin egg in the house even for baking
>”i read they make you die early!”
It was a cluster fuck, and I always ate 2-3 eggs every day regardless of the supposedly settled science. I love eggs too much and id rather die than stop eating them

>>13105948
>Suicide
patrician taste in retirement plans anon

>>13104802
I wish I got tuna helper as a kid

>>13105572
I refuse to eat supposedly green vegetables from a can. tomatoes and corn and beans are fine tho

>>13104809
>oh yeah but the great part was we never had to eat together like a family... hah... wouldn't that be dumb...
lol imagine being this kid.

>>13104802
Well, dad was a pretty damn killer cook. But I only ate at his place about 2-3 times a week, maybe 4-5 if mom was late picking me up from his place on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Mom still doens't know how to cook even to this day.

>>13110319
This only applies if experience of
> eating with family > eating alone

When your parents just spend arguing all time at the table you will be, damn at least my PC can shut up when I am trying to eat.

>>13104802
is there anything wrong with boxed pasta? my parents owned a pasta maker and we tried it out a few times but it never turned out very well.

>>13105935
>fat is bad
>eat more sugar and processed grains
I really can't believe my love of bacon was manufactured by a capitalist conspiracy to give me gay aid ass cancer!

>>13110541
Sorry you come from a crap family. Do you think that’s why you ended up gay?

>>13104802
Tuna Helper, but they add smoked paprika, bacon, and capers to it.

I still use canned beans, tomatoes, sardines, and tuna. Nothing wrong with those things if you know what you're doing. Boiled veggies can taste good, but you have to add some sugar and butter or tallow.

My dad can't cook at all. Mom is an okay cook but will never crisp up the vegetables. I fucking hated onions because they were basically steamed instead of being properly sauteed.

>>13110604
that first bit sounds like it should be served to a Guantanamo Bay prisoner on the floor as a plate. fuck that nonsense.

>>13110604
Tuna helper is still crap. Nice cope tho.

>>13104802
>tfw parents from Mexico so idk what any of this shit is
My friends used to flock to my house in droves and just stand in the corner sheepishly until my mom offered them food, kind of cringe

My dad is an awful cook, but knows he is bad. My mom is an awful cook, but convinced she is great

Every meal i had as a child had frozen peas and corn

>>13104802
My mother is a wonderful cook, and she mostly makes everything from scratch except using small things like packets of premixed spices to save time. The only time I don't like her cooking is from personal preference, e.g. she would boil something when I prefer it roasted.

On the extremely rare occasion he would bother to make anything for anyone other than himself, I would not touch my father's cooking with a barge pole for hygiene reasons alone, never mind taste.

>>13110653
Sorry about that anon. It’s just probably because your parents hated you and saw you as a burden.

>>13104802
You left out instant mashed potatoes, miracle whip, hot pockets, shitty frozen pizza, kraft singles, margarine, and a combo jar of peanut butter and jelly.

You're missing tacos made with a spice packet, pancakes made with bagged mix, cakes from box mix, kraft mac and cheese with a protein thrown in, steaks and pork chops, pizza crust made with bagged mix, dehydrated mashed potatoes, side salads out of a bag with ranch dressing, canned fruit, and that's just off the top of my head.

I didn't hold it against her. She worked two jobs and all three of her kids went to college on their own dime. I love my mom very much.

>>13104802
My guilty pleasure is that sloppy joe mix in a can. Don't lump that in with boiled frozen veggies.

My mom used to be an excellent cook, but she actually got worse over time. She will cut corners, make unusual substitutions, and even combine very incompatible ingredients with no rhyme or reason. I suspect dementia, because her mannerisms have gotten really weird recently.

My dad is still a clueless fuck when it comes to cooking.

>>13105438
that's sweet though, at least you guys eat well. he could just have an autistic food obsession like that freaky eater show, but he's kind and self aware enough to not indoctrinate you into into his awful diet

>>13105572
Of course there is, they taste bad.

My mom just boils chicken. Doesn't season or maranade, just boils it in water for hours. I can't stop her, I wake up in the morning and there's chicken boiling. I don't understand.

>>13110713
Adding to that, Shake & Bake (chicken parts and pork chops), baked chicken parts with a can of mushroom soup dumped on top, frozen crap from Market Day (think bagel dogs, chicken Kiev), bland ground beef hard shell tacos, poorly made meatloaf swimming in grease in a bread pan, instant rice, potato flakes, casseroles galore. Classic working parents Americana.

my mom made a lot of cuban inspired food(yellow rice, chicken), and my dad dabbled in asian. my grandma on my dad’s side made the best egg rolls. of course we’d indulge in the occasional bbq with burgers, corn, and hot dogs on the grill and what not too.

when they split the times were darker and there was struggle. the once usual meals became buttered noodles.

>>13110572
its not as good as fresh pasta but the difference really isn't that significant

>>13104802
Nope, My parent are Asian so they knew how to cook. The only they didn't know how to cook was anything BBQ. They burn the steak to hell and I hated it.

People who can’t cook are equally as bad as you pretentious fags with “refined palettes” who make everything from scratch. If you’re not in the middle of these two you are an amish, hipster puff

>>13104802
This made me sad, OP. Growing up eating this shit is the reason I started cooking for myself 20 years ago.

>>13104802
>spaghetti and chicken fried steak are markers that someone can't cook
Drink cyanide :)

>parents can't cook
>barely follow instructions
>don't properly freeze or store food properly
>damaged kitchenware
>they also suck at cleaning
>garbage in the sink
It probably would have been better being an abused child lost in the CPS system than growing up in that home.

>>13104802
My dad cooks the greatest chili con carne and we're not even hispanic. My dad > your dad.

none of these apply except sloppy joes and minute rice. what the fuck are you supposed to do for white rice? Minute is just fine.

>>13111540
Chili con carne isn't even a mexican dish lol. Its white people giving extra spicy chili a "ethnic" name to avoid claims of "cultural appropriation". Which is stupid because its just white people chili with a mexican peppers inside. Go be a flavor peasant else where.

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>>13110697

>Heheh yeah, it's called 4channel. You're supposed to go there and like like an insufferable cunt for no reason. It's supposed to be funny or something.

Go back.

My dad can legit cook well, but he basically never does so. Only Christmas and a few other occasions, and only then so that my mum doesn't kill us all and then herself. I know he used to do shit like stuffed pig trotters when he was single.
My mum's okay at cooking. Her hamburgers are GOAT. She doesn't use herbs or spices nearly as much as she should do, though. I blame her New Zealand upbringing.
>>13105572
Sure, tinned tomatoes and a few other things are fine. I think the implication is they rely wholly on that and do nothing with them, though.
>>13105704
desu I misinterpreted your post as "my cooking skill is very much in the 'fine dining' tier", I assume he did the same.
>>13105730
The OP is for poor people, though. Middle class people have traiteurs or traiteur-like ready meals instead.
>>13108073
Where the fuck does the mayonaisse go in a shepherd's pie.
>>13111633
Mexicans are the least non-white non-white people, anon, give it a rest.

>>13110715
It's like you're actively trying to prove how American you are.

My parents are fine, but my paternal grandmother is awful. She's one of those people who believes her cooking is great and implicitly demands that she cooks for everyone when she visits the family - which could be for weeks at a time.

Every goddamn rice meal is mushy, which is every meal since we're Persian. Every meat is incredibly watery. Everything is either overspiced or underspiced. She adds ridiculous things to common food which ruins the flavour.

>>13104807
dog bless mom o7

my aul ma cooks everything, i don't know how to cook most stuff she does

>>13104802
The funny thing, my parents did cook, but having the shit taste of a 7-year old I wouldn't eat it.

My mom makes the best baked mac-n-cheese. I hated it. Absolutely had to have the artificial orange shit from a box. Green beans right from the garden? Bleh. Give me canned!

>>13105636
>My partner would use the cheese around his unwashed dick instead of anchovies
AIDS doesn't kill you faggots fast enough.

My father never cooked or cared to cook. My mother, before she was a bit gone mentally, would just bring back random pieces of chicken fingers, nuggets, or whatever they'd give her for free from her job at the chicken processing plant. Always came wrapped in a plastic hairnet.
It was the only thing available to eat sometimes and I honestly cannot stomach nuggets anymore.

>>13105935
>eating a single hotdog increases your chance of getting cancer by 20%
oh cool another bullshit lie backed by more bullshit to make money else were. remove the fucking sooycorn oils from my fucking foods you stupid foodjews.
>eating corn raw
>actually isnt digestible
>fuckers force you to eat it other ways
>eating soooybeans raw
>cause pretty noticeable health problems
>fuckers force you to eat it anyways other ways
>eat wheat raw
>not a goat or cow so you cant digest it
>milled grain and say it MAY prevent heart disease
meanwhile you can eat a pretty much raw beef steak and be completely fine.
same with fish.

>>13104802
Yeah. But with a whole lot more microwave and fast food, and less variety of attempted ingredients.

>>13105428
>everybody still lives with their mom

>>13104802
yes

>>13104802
My mom would turn everything into a burrito. Literally put leftover stew in a tortilla. dark times.

>>13104802
No she never made asparagus but the rest is true. I have scoliosis

>>13115168
Same. Is there some relation between certain foods and scoliosis? I just make the same things my mom did but the real deal now. Frozen hamburgers became ground beef with onion and garlic. Kraft macaroni became regular pasta. Instant potatos became real mashed or baked potatos. And so on

>>13104802
Yeah my parents can't cook worth shit, I bet I'd be 10cm taller if they weren't so shit at cooking due to me eating more.

It's all good though, I learned to cook thanks to it, since they can't cook at all I had to learn myself.