/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The more Thanksgivings I go to the more I am baffled. Does it really take that much fucking effort to make a green bean casserole from scratch instead of using canned soup, or to learn how to make stuffing that doesn't come from a box or how to not drown your mashed potatoes in butter and cream or how to cook a turkey properly? How is it that I, a single, 30 year-old heterosexual man, can plan, cook and serve better holiday meals than a fucking stay-at-home mother who has been making Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners since before I was even born? I'm not a cook or a chef and everything I make for the holiday is bog-standard "middle America Thanksgiving" but it's still almost always better than what I've been served by others. Have these people never had better food during the holidays? I would be fucking embarrassed to serve my guests most of the Thanksgiving dinners I've ever had.