/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Historical girlfriend cooking skill list:

Ex 1 - bad, half due to her shitty family being incapable of anything other than the worst in oily Mexican food, and the other half due to her sister, who was just as bad, but due to their symbiotic-idolization of each other, they shared their techniques. Her specialty was slicing potatoes, throwing them in a cast-iron skillet, drenching them in olive oil, and throwing them in the oven for a while. It was like every bad oven fry story made manifest into a single tater entity - Tatentity

Ex 2 - was adventurous, but still bad, mostly because she'd look for any random recipe online that looked good, tell her grandparents to buy her the shit to make it, and then poorly-prepare it because she thought she could make enhancements to the recipes. The last thing I ate was some foil-baked orange roughy thing that was drenched in rosemary (like, she chopped the entire contents of a "living herb" pack sans the roots and covered the fucking thing in it), I felt ill trying to eat it, it was so goddamn bitter, and made me feel as if this roughy died for absolutely fucking nothing

Ex 3 - didn't date long enough to see if she could cook anything beyond bog-standard Mexican food. It wasn't BAD, but her (hot) mom made the better enchiladas, where her's were just baked without any frying step, and were soggy and runny, sauce was good though, and not canned, but it was her mom's meat in them

Ex 4 - probably the best cook I knew in terms of skills/knowledge/trivia, and where I picked up a lot of shit to where I would start exploring beyond a Betty Crocker cookbook, and also how I started realizing how bad most people I know are in the kitchen. Kinda sounded like going to school augmented what she already knew how to do, and was popular at parties because of this

Ex 5 - in the single week we were dating, I witnessed her add Kraft singles and Vienna Sausages to Velveeta mac and cheese in order to "make it better", i.e. the Dollar Tree gourmet