/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17649220
not good

>>17649220
It fed and nourished me.

>>17649220
My mother was widowed when I was 3 and from there on it was very basic but nutritious meals. Taco night was my favorite, but I also enjoyed salmon night and spaghetti and meat sauce night
But since she's retired now her skills have gone through the roof, both baking and cooking. For example instead of steamed broccoli for our vegetable we'll have roasted brussels sprouts with balsamic. Last week she made a spring onion gratin that was amazing I had never heard of such sorcery

>>17649220
When I visit my parents I prefer to cook for her.
She never liked cooking though I think when I visit she tries to copy whatever I make for her after I leave because I enjoy it so much and she likes what I make.

Her food was so so. It fed me and she would try to keep it healthy and it definitely could have been a LOT worse based on some stories I've head about deadbeat moms. But it was a chore for her and she hated it so much and she has mental issues so dinner time would be unpleasant sometimes because she would be freaking out over some bullshit.

It was decent but not as creative as my dad's

>makes rice with soy sauce and chicken liver
Idk

>>17649389
same story here.

It wasn't bad, but not exactly good. Except for her chicken enchiladas, those were fucking fantastic. But she was always happiest when she was cooking for her kids.

Mom's cooking is pretty much what got me into cooking. Her food was mediocre, and I wanted to eat tastier food. And I wanted that happiness she got from cooking for her family.

>>17649220
Pretty good overall. Growing up she cooked very often and rarely ordered out or had us go out for food. Food was pretty tasty as well, and she improved on her cooking as I got older. Only real flaw is she doesn’t like to use salt when she cooks for health reasons, but overall her food is good and I make some of it myself. I love my mom.

>>17649220
Good, but God I am glad my dad got her to use more spices as the years went on. Some things she’s shittier at than she will admit, but some things she does better than any others I’ve tried.

>>17649220
I always ate what she served since I'm not a spoiled brat but to be honest it was rarely good. Not because she lacked skill, when she wanted to she could make some good meals, it's just she rarely ever wanted to put any effort in. Any opportunity to cut corners and shave time and effort she would take and the food suffered. She also almost never tried anything new, the amount of basic ass, canned sauce, kraft woodshaving "parmesan", spaghetti I've had.. Or on rare instances when she felt creative she would make some boomer 1950's cookbook-esque abomination with abundant kraft singles and canned cream of mushroom soup.
She does have a few good things she makes on special occasions though and I don't resent her for it or anything. If anything it encouraged me to try cooking for myself just to eat something more tasty.

I still can't stand ground turkey

people are nostalgic about the 90s but the health trends sure sucked

>>17649594
>watch cooking show from the 90s
>everyone bragging about how little fat and salt the recipe has

It's good for someone who has no interest in cooking.

Garbage. Always just ‘one pot’ meals and prepackaged crap.

>>17649220
She was severely brain damaged from a car accident. Mashed potatoes and gravy with ground beef almost every single day as a child, stir fry every single day as a teenager. That's it, once or twice a year she'd cook something different like spaghetti or lasagna.

I cant eat out at Mexican restaurants because nothing compares.

>>17649220
pretty good overall, nothing too crazy. she likes Jamie Oliver a lot and uses some of his recipes, in addition to family recipes (Polish cuisine) and simple but nice improv stuff
I feel like moms are generally at least decent at cooking, aside from US moms because they grew up on shitty processed food and canned products or something

>>17649272
Based and respects mother pilled

>>17649220
My Dads is better.
There's a few things she makes very well, but the woman in my family aren't very good cooks.
Idk why. Whenever they cook something (anything) they turn the stove on high heat put whatever they are cooking in the pan, and just walk away from it.
If I don't stir it for them, and turn the heat down they burn whatever it is every single time.

You think you would learn not to do that after cooking for so many decades.
My Dad makes some bombass chili though. Really good fried chicken too.

>>17649819
Yuroid’s law

>>17649220
My mom is an incredible cook, and she is always interested in trying new recipes too. Her staples have been absolutely perfected over the years, and there is never a bad meal.

Kinda shit, she knows a lot but doesnt bother with proper technique. Says she's too busy or tired. I would do the majority of the cooking while I loved with them

>>17649220
Pretty good actually. But she is a better at baking

>>17649220
The bitch couldn't cook for shit. I can't remember her making much other than spaghetti, mashed potatoes or meatloaf.

Awesome, my parents used to run a high-end catering business, among other food-related things.

She cooked alright, nothing spectacular but the bar was set way too high by my gardnmother who was an amazing cook. She taught me a lot of recipes and now I am fairly decent at cooking thanks to her. When she passed away I would usually cook for my family. Since my mother worked a lot.

>>17649220
Fucking terrible. Applied no spice, and didn’t use oil or butter because it was unhealthy. Here’s an example of a “healthy meal”
Turkey Burger: take ground turkey directly from package and apply to skillet. Heat until dry, then serve on a gigantic “whole wheat” bun with ketchup.

>>17649936
How often did you love together?

>>17649220
awful, I disowned her

>>17649220
Very good.

>>17649220
Terrible enough that it's the sole reason I learned cooking

>>17649220
Her family has run a Gasthaus in Germany for like 300 years and she grew up helping run it, so needless to say yeah she can cook.

>>17650453
You too, anon?
We need moar details.

Very mediocre with notable exceptions but her baking was incredible to the point of certain friends of the family expecting boxes of it when they would come to town as if they were swinging by the city's famous bakery or something.

>>17649220
So garbage I learned to cook at a young age

>>17649220
She's good at baking but very hit or miss with everything else. Also quite close minded when it comes to food

>>17649220
Sometimes lazy and basic, but still good.

Mom, sister and dad (in that order) are all fairly formidable. The four of us specialize in cooking different things.

>>17649220
It was alright and kept everyone fed until she tried going vegetarian to diet and it all just took a nosedive. Then another one after pretty much all spices had to go out the window because of Dad's chemo. Now I try to cook but anything one'll eat the other won't.

>>17649220
my mom almost never cooked
we had fast food or takeout most nights

>>17649220
I was raised on fast food. Literally every single night. She said the cashiers recognized her. We cycled between pizza, Wendy's, Olive Garden take-out, McDonald's, Chinese take-out. Honestly, I'm so grateful because her cooking is nearly inedible.

>>17653739
That sounds expensive and unhealthy

>>17653743
I used to be fat but that's my own fault for overeating

>>17649220
Mom's cooking isn't fine dining quality, but it straddles a very fine line between healthy and delicious that most struggle to achieve. She is a registered nurse with a degree in nutrition and is probably the best mom anyone could hope for. Not because she catered to every whim that my siblings and I had, but rather she provided a nurturing environment while still pushing us constantly to perform and achieve.

Dad, however, put storebought barbecue sauce on raw chicken before they hit the grill. It was not good. We dreaded days that dad was in charge of meals.

>>17653761
>that's my own fault for overeating
True ultimately. But also if your fed almost exclusively fast food from a young age I don't know if you should shoulder all the blame.

Bad, but my dad was a pretty good cook. My mom just stayed at home in bed all day or watching TV while complaining about life while my dad ran a window cleaning business and always had energy to make dinner.