/ck/ - Food & Cooking

As a child, yes. Still now if she makes saucy, fatty things like shepherd's pie, lasagna. But overall, her food is too dry. She hates using oil because oil is high in calories, so many dishes are dry because it's 'healthy'.

>>12550919
yes, it's fucking great.
My father on the other hand can't cook for shit, but he insists on cooking whenever i come visit. Having overcooked riced with the consistency of fucking mashed potatoes.

>>12550933
See I have the opposite, my mom thinks putting one of those stoffers lasagnas in the microwave counts as cooking while my dad I fucking great at it.

My mother is from out East, so they learned how to cook. I could teach you a chicken soup that would make you piss your pants. They learned out to cook everything well, because they were poor.

hell fucking no
she made me hate:
>fish
>vegetables
>chicken
it took me a good 4-5 years after moving out to finally figure out those things can be prepared in a way that tastes GOOD

>>12550933
>Having overcooked riced with the consistency of fucking mashed potatoes.
it's probably less that he's overcooking it and more that he's getting his proportions wildly wrong

All the women in my entire extended family are amazing cooks up until the current generation that is to say.

I've been very spoiled in terms of food

My mom doesn't cook. My dad will ballcrush you with some shrimp scampi tho

>>12550919
It's "ok"

My mom isn't awful at cooking but she doesn't enjoy cooking so she never learned to do anything properly and refuses to follow a recipe properly.

my mom just came up with a new way to sear steak. I didn't think you could redo steak, but she did.

>>12550919
Nah my mom's a pretty shit cook 2bh.

Hell fucking yes, the food she makes is literal heaven for my taste buds.

>>12550919

my mom's a shit cook

>>12550919
My mom is the best cook I know. I'm not just saying that either. She didn't get really good until after my brother and I had moved away from home though. When I was a kid I remember her burning things a lot.

>>12550919
My mom gave up when my dad divorced her 10 years ago.
She's cooked maybe 2 or 3 times a year since then. All she eats are frosted wheats dry with no milk and cans of cake icing with a spoon.
She barely even showers anymore.

Yes, she has an open mind and loves spicy food. I got my savoury tooth from her and every Friday we have something nice

my nan however does mostly boring English shit (though her spag bol is top tier). God I hate boiled anything...

Not anymore. She used to put effort in it, but now anytime I visit her for dinner, she cooks up an uninspired slop. Usually it's a rissoto with frozen veg, or some sort of pasta + veg combo. She refuses to add salt, spice, or any sauce, unless it's tomato sauce and even then it's never enough sauce so the dish just taste like raw pasta. If I cook ANYTHING and bring it for dinner, she will take a bite, complain that there's too much salt or spice, and then flat out refuse to eat it. Instead she will cook herself a hardboiled egg and have toast, which I find offensive after spending time out of my day making a more elaborate meal than prison slop.
And this is only a fairly recent development. I think alcoholism has mangled her grey matter.

>>12550919
Yes because she knows exactly what are my favorite flavor profiles so it's basically cheating. Comparing with other mothers, she's pretty good.
But like virtually every mothers, it's overrated. It's home cooking, it's nice, comfy, but it's never mind blowing. Most mothers use shortcuts, are not very technical, and are just doing it mindlessly without any research or innovation.

>>12550919
Yes. It’s typical Midwestern meat, carb, veg fare, but quite well done.

>>12550919
It's ok, she just follows popular recipes. I cook for my parents a lot these days.

>>12550919
Mine very proudly told me at dinner last week that the only thing she salts is mashed potatoes. So no, not entirely. She is still the reigning chocolate chip cookie champion for the tristate area tho

>>12550919
Yes.
It's my favourite food.

Yes, she taught me how, as did my grandmother.. Both my parents are good at cooking. Italian/French is a deadly combination.

Nope because she never learned to properly cook or ever cooked for us when we were growing up. Most she did was leave behind a bag of chicken fingers in a plastic hairnet that she got for free at the factory.
So my sister and I were pretty self reliant at an early age because we got tired of it and sometimes there wouldn't be any food at all.

>>12551328
I bet she uses fucking pine nuts in everything. Fuck your meme nut and you are a consummate bastard if you cook with those abominations.

>>12550919
Yes, but recently she's been using this homemade apple cider vinegar that tastes off in place of storebought white or rice vinegar and it's impossible to change her mind

>>12550919
I hated food until I left home. She would overcook everything.

My mom only knows how to put broth and vegetables in a pressure cooker

>>12551260
Have you ever thought you actually do use too much salt?

my mother is polish and is fucking tremendously good with cooking
which is weird because she is the pickiest eater you will ever meet and she's like 70. you'd be amazed at the shit she won't even try, but will somehow cook it excellently

>>12551991
No, I don't put any salt in when I cook for her, she's just being stubborn (65 y/o italian lady). She'll even pull that shit at restaurants, it's fucked.

>>12551227
Dude your mother sounds like a miserable woman

I sure used to. When I was a kid back in the 20th century, Dad worked and Mom ran the house. She cooked at least one meal a day, plus packed Dad's lunch in a pail. Same with us kids - we didn't buy school lunch until after Dad died. What she made wasn't fancy by any stretch, but it was all made from scratch, and it was a balanced meal. We ate everything on our plate.

Mom is 85 now, and in good health, but she lives in a retirement apartment, and doesn't cook much anymore. I still ask her for recipes or tips on how to do cooking stuff every now and then. I wish that she and I had ever cooked together. It would have been fun. Maybe next time I visit her, I'll talk her into it.

No my mom "cooks" maybe once a month. She makes awful tacos, all she does is cook up ground beef and put it in a soft shell and calls it a taco. Literally that's all she does to it. No taco seasoning, no lettuce or even cheese not even FUCKING SALT

Shes alergic to alot of shit

>tomatoes
>onions
>citrus
>eggs
>corn
>beef
>any shellfish
>green beans

Other shit that im forgetting. Almonds and cashews i think but not peanuts strangely enough. So, its very limited what she can cook. Its all chicken pork and turkey for meats, which isnt that bad. No tomatoes, corn, eggs etc doesnt leave much variety.
Also she cant season for shit.

Yup. She's got a Master's in Food Science and has worked as a registered dietician for the last 20 years. I was lucky enough to have a home cooked meal basically every night growing up.

My mother, despite being 300lbs overweight, will turn a burger Patty into a rock. I originally got into cooking in fact to keep her from ruining the food.

My mom's food is usually hit or miss.
She likes to try out new things and keeps a super well stocked spice cabinet, but the biggest problem is that she never throws anything away. She'll consistently cook with very expired food.

My step-mom's food is great. She's Puerto Rican and makes stellar stuff. Not as good as my abuela, though.
I don't think anything can touch grandmother cooking.

>>12550919
>mfw every time my mother would make that nasty ghetto yellow rice drowned in chicken bouillon from a cardboard box
No, forbodden, it took years for her cooking to reach mediocre. Its all about father's cooking, that man can cook like a god damn champ.

>>12550919
My mom is a shit cook and she doesn't understand how spices work

She refuses to even try my cooking and believes she's a great cook

Sadly no. She does her best but is just very mediocre. A lot to do with her mother having non existent cooking skills. My other grandma also doesn't cook. Feel like I've missed out desu

Yes, but it's not the best. My grandmother on my father's side makes amazing food. Whenever my mother makes a dish that my grandmother has made before, I tell her to make it the way she does. Great stuff

Yes, I like her cooking when she doesn't rely on pre-made sauces.

>>12550919
My mom is dead

she killed herself past year

I used to but not anymore.

>>12550919
No. Women suck at cooking and pretty much everything except taking care of babies, complaining, and getting fucked and even then they can be sub-fucking-par.

Inb4 >found the incel
I fuck

>>12550919
She stopped cooking after doing drugs and wine :(

I'm cooking for my mom since the age of 11.

>>12553762
F

>>12550919
Ramsay would throw a massive fit if he sees my mom cook. She puts the food on then walks to the livingroom to watch tv then if anyone walks to the kitchen she asks them to check on the food. She overcooks everything.

Once years ago I came back from school to find the house full of smoke, my mother was in bed and figured it was okay to leave it on simmering cause she thought I was going to be home soon.

Ramsay would probably strangle her.

I've always liked my moms cooking and i'm always nice to her and thank her when she cooks for me. But she's not a -great- cook.

>tfw parents always considered themselves good cooks and both of them like cooking and do it to unwind
>i start making food that's clearly better than theirs
>eventually they admit i'm a better cook
>tfw they start actually trying again to put more effort into food and trying new recipes and stuff because they realise how much they're slipping

They do a lot of bad cook things though
>don't taste their food while cooking
>don't roast off bones for stock or cook it long enough
>habitually overcook meat and vegetables yet always apologize for it
>don't understand how to balance things
>chop ingredients lazily into hard to eat sizes,
>constantly burn olive oil and garlic
>dad always uses too much oil, mom not enough,
>buy too much food and forget about it and constantly cook half spoiled food
>when they try to cook asian food it's hilariously bad

still pretty good though.
bless their hearts.

>>12550919
>Do you like your mother's cooking, /ck/?
I like it, but she's not very good really.

>>12553762
I'm sorry Anon.

Yep, her food is without a doubt better than a lot of restaurants I’ve been to.

>>12550919
yeah she's insanely good but very old school

her two major ingredients are butter and sugar in everything

>>12550919
Ok guys, do we pronounce it "see kay", or make a "ck" sound like the end of du(ck)?

>>12550919
No,because she spits in the food she makes for me.

Because of my mom I thought that steak was the most overrated food there was, then I found out well-done is not the only way to cook a steak. Other than that though she's an alright cook.

>>12553762
Why?

>>12555652
If you /ck/....ya get it?

>>12555652
I've always said it see kay in my head. I think the damage is irreparable.

My mom only knows how to use the oven(by throwung unseasoned meats into it).

I like mother's lasagne better than my wife's

>>12555201
I did wine once, turned into a goat for 7 hours.

>>12550919
Hell yeah, my mom is a great cook. I don't often get to eat with my parents anymore, because I live so far away, but it's comfy when I get to go visit. She's responsible for my love of cooking and trying new foods.

>>12555227
>Once years ago I came back from school to find the house full of smoke, my mother was in bed and figured it was okay to leave it on simmering cause she thought I was going to be home soon
Your mom sounds like a retarded 12 year old.

My mom is a horrible cook, which I never understood. She comes from a long line of great cooks, and her brother is a great cook too, so it's not like her parents didn't try. I think my father used to be a great cook but my mom told him he was doing everything wrong so he eventually he just gave up. The rare times he'll cook it'll be really good. I learned to cook from a very young age (don't really remember why) and as I improved I realized how terrible my mom's food was and started cooking for my family.
>>12555227
ur mum sounds like a right cunt m8

>>12550919
My dads a far better cook than my mom in that he can make a lot of different meals to a good standard. My mom on the other hand only knows how to cook lamb and make lasagne but those two things she does incredibly.

>>12550919
My mother literally has not touched a cooking utensil in decades

>>12550919
She used to be good, like when I was a kid.
When I was a teenager she became an alcoholic and now she just fucks up anything that takes more than a couple minutes or you have to pay attention to, usually because she falls asleep.

>>12555821
food poisoning

I liked it, yeah.

>>12550919
usually I do, but its not the best

she excels at mexican food and a few family recipes though

She did what was necessary to feed us growing up, made sure that we always had some form of vegetable, that said she has an ignorant boomer mentality. Bland dishes, casseroles, well done meat, under seasoned.

Mother worked at a top restaurant in downtown Chicago before she had me. She's an excellent cook, but a better baker. Got me interested in food.

>>12550919
She can follow recipes well but never makes anything of her own. Since I got into cooking I make all the meals when I come back home to visit which we both enjoy.

>>12555838
>>12555652
it's djee-kaa

My mom's cooking was horrible and she also never taught me how. I guess the latter part is a positive, even though I went out into the world unprepared to take care of myself. At least I don't cook like her.

>>12550919
It's the reason why I was such a fatty as a kid, still love her food today

>>12550919
yeah

>>12550919
I always hated my mother's cooking, my dad was always the better cook because he was more innovative and actually would throw in different ingredients or completely making recipes up from scratch, my mom mostly just followed recipes from her mother's cookbooks and refused to really adapt them or change them. My mom did however have excellent baking recipes, she always made really great pies, bread rolls, biscuits and cobbler. It's weird because cooking isn't something that takes any sort of unique skill and it's something everyone can become good at because it's really just a lot of trial and error and some degree of creativity.