/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My dad went travelling for a few years and stayed in India for a while, so this naturally meant he could make curry.

I mean, I say "make curry" I mean "put a bunch of vegetables into a pot and make a watery barely-spiced mess including brussel sprouts in the mix for some goddamn reason". Christ. I sort of want to go back in time and get some pictures.

anything with ground beef

>tilapia....all the time
>shitty steaks (well done)
>burnt pizza
>kalamata olives everywhere....dafuq we arent greek

>>3684055
Similar. My ex always made curry chicken with couscous and it was never that good. Whenever I smell or taste curry now I think of that asshole. Bad feel.

>Mom says we are having spaghetti for dinner
>Doesn't say it comes out of Hamburger Helper box

Why can't people understand cooking from scratch anymore

Anything with tofu. Mom was a health-food junkie (she even ate those rectangles of cardboard that are labeled "health crackers") so nearly every night, it was steamed veggies, which I normally don't mind, but it was usually either broccoli or asparagus (God damnit, woman, those are my two LEAST favorite vegetables in the world) with some sort of baked/roasted meat. Generally the meat was awesome, because mum makes a damn good roast beef, but she can't cook pork to save her life. She'd always buy those Hormel pork loaves, you know the ones that have triple the lethal dose of salt, questionable amounts of fat, and have been soaking in what appears to be sewer water? Yeah, those, all the time.

I'm also very confused as to what her definition of "health food" is.

>>3684025
ew, I bet you grew up to be a fat, spoiled, asshole. Great parenting there.

>not cooking your own food as a kid

Maybe it was just because I lived with a single mom who worked long hours, but I'm glad for it.

>>3681396


Presentation: 4/5
It looks very appealing.
Originality: 2/5
The idea of adding Fourme d'ambert- a blue cheese -and seafood to this traditional and frankly overplayed dish is original only insofar as the fact that nobody would ever use that stomach churning pair. Seafood and blue cheese are wretched combination.
Appeal: 0/5
Blue cheese and seafood, enough said.
Challenge Goals:2/5

Total: 8/20

CHICKEN:My mother used to make baked chicken that was so dry and unflavored. Just thinking about it now makes my throat dry. Also, terrible bbq chicken (in the oven-like hockey pucks). I still can not eat chicken cacciatore because of her. Dad was on a special diet so we couldn't use saturated fats in our cooking but I can't imagine that would make it impossible to cook chicken.

Well done steak.

My dad was really good with a grill and my mom was pretty good with everything else.

The only thing is she liked to put herbs and spices in everything for the sake of putting herbs and spices in everything.

Copious amounts of cinnamon in spaghetti (that includes meat) just isn't good.

>>3684134
>cinammon
>spaghetti
>meat

wat

Pre-made shit in bags or cans you just heat up. They don't give a shit about how food tastes apart from the fact that if I prepared it I wasn't allowed to add any herbs or spices to it. They like it bland.

I seriously fucking hate that shit now. I can't eat it.

>>3684104
That's shit's pretty decent, honestly.

>>3684137
You never done that?

Next time you make a spaghetti meat-sauce, add cinnamon. I love that shit.

>>3684033
Me too! I never had tuna casseroles and stuff like that as a kid, and I think they are pretty delicious and straight-forward to make.

I can't really contribute anything to this thread, I like almost anything and certainly anything my mom ever made for me. But then, we were poor, so there wasn't much of a choice.

Stamppot.

Can't say I've ever had a GOOD tuna casserole. They're all usually bland. I have to add salt and hot sauce just to make it palatable. Never tried making it myself, but it always seems like it's missing something.

I started cooking 5/7 dinners a week at an early age and my mother tought me the basics. Non the less:

>well done stake.

Also saw "fast food nation" the other day so:

>any meatproduct where i cant see what the hell it is.

That is one fucking awful Tuna Casserole. Is my family the only one that knows how to make a good tuna casserole? Peas have no place, nor do bread crumbs. Step up motherfuckers.

1 well done steak (I give them shit for it pretty often though)
2 beef roast (dad's favorite meal - ate it so often i hate it)
3 chicken (parents insist it needs to cook 40 mins at least)
4 steamed green beans (the sound they make against my teeth makes me want to kill EVERYTHING)
5 anything that can be cooked in a crock pot
6 meatloaf (aka ketchup bread)
7 scrambled eggs (fucking hate them now)
8 roast beef (cold roast beef/mayo sammiches in my lunch every day for years. wont touch the stuff now)
9 pea soup (would skip dinner every time we had this)

most of the stuff wasn't that bad, and I would generally eat it anyways, but it just sucks knowing that it could fairly easily be made so much better

>>3684177

According to the song, "Tuna, Noodles, Celery, Soup-mushroom, and chips"

Which is actually OK, if it's a low sodium cream of mushroom soup.

>>3684183
I've never heard the song but celery has no place. Tuna, Noodles, Chips, Mushroom soup, black pepper. Distinct layers, bake until delicious.Should be simple enough for an american not to fuck up.

This.

My Mom made this every Sunday for breakfast and on nights my Dad worked late.

C'mon who mixes eggs, lobster and caviar? So fucking glad to cook for myself.