/ck/ - Food & Cooking

my mother can't even make ramen

My mother loves cooking and I learned a lot of cooking related shit from her, but goddamn does she do it in the most white-trash way possible. I can't tell you how many times she's made spaghetti with this shit and then acted like it was home-made because she added basil and a pinch of sugar to it.

my father couldn't make a good sauce to save his life.

my mother is a pretty good cook, but she does tend to use maggi fix shit as a basis for a lot of things. she can do it without it and she always improves on the stuff if she uses it though.

I've had to take cooking into my own hands (which my dad fortunately let me do), because it was just getting so bland, nothing but chicken, pork chops, and steak seasoned the exact same way every time.

>>5621861
heres a parmesan chicken I made last night, next time im going to try yo make it a little crispierchaidam largest

>>5621861
you were lucky to get different types of meat
mine was some variation on chicken and rice every day
i'm white british

>>5621841
oh god I know this feel, my dad has used jarred sauce my whole life so ive hardely ever tasted a fresh home made marinara. at least your mom teaches you though

>>5621841
Yeah same here.
I seriously can't eat Spaghetti Bolognese anymore because my mother's sauce was pretty much 50% shitty, canned tomato sauce and 50% meat of things that might actually were alive at some point.

Oh and sausages. Jesus, we had so much of them too.

>>5621873
my mom cooked this a lot too, maybe not as often but the chicken was always overcooked and incredibly bland. the rice as well.

>>5621841
Don't forget the homemade chili

>>5621827
is that your image? its painful

>>5621884
>meat of things that might actually were alive at some point
what

>>5621888
is homemade chili signifiganty better than canned? I've never had it

"Cooking"

My mom was a great cook, but I don't know what happened. She lost her passion and just resorted to pic related or frozen chicken patties every night.

>>5621892
Well, let's just say my parents didn't always buy the most quality stuff for cooking.

>>5621888
That looks like cat food.

>>5621867
*crispier.

fucking autocorrect

>>5621897
hnnnnggggggggg

My mother was a home ec teacher, vocational cooking teacher, and chef. My dad is a farmer/rancher. So to say I grew up in a culture of good food is an understatement. I learned about food literally from the ground up.
I never even saw boxed mac and cheese until I went to college and saw a girl in my dorm make it. I distinctly remember being horrified. Nothing I ate growing up came out of a box. Mom even squeezed our own citrus juices every day. In the spring, summer, and early fall, all our produce came out of a huge garden. All our beef, lamb, and poultry we raised ourselves. We had milk goats for a time when I was a kid, but my parents had phased them out by the time I was a teenager. My dad grew wheat, oats, sorghum, alfalfa, and other grains and grasses (a lot of those were for feeding/grazing the animals, though). We had pear trees, blackberry bushes, rose hips, peach trees, and a pecan orchard (with about 30 pecan trees). We had a few creeks where we fished for bass and catfish, and would make regular trips to the coast to fish as well. Anyway, my food memories of my parents are idyllic. Mom is a fantastic cook, she can cook anything. Too bad I live thousands of miles away from them now. I miss all that.

>>5621895
Yes.

>mfw my mother knows how to cook like 200 different types of food and cooks them quite well

>tfw both my parents know how to cook but I can barely make ramen properly

My dad grills ribs and steaks all the time and my mom can make some killer lasagna. I'll have to take a pic next time she makes it.

>>5621806
At least one meal per week was something in a glass 9x13 pan with melted cheese on top. I still love the rest of my mom's cooking.

My dad never cooked in the kitchen, he was the outdoorsman type. Green shit was for pussies and everything had to be cooked over a fire pit. As far as i know the only thing he can do it throw meat on a fire and make jerky.

>>5621932
forgot pic

>>5621940
why

>>5621940

absolutely disgusting

>>5621940
vomit.jpg

>>5621932
Yeah, that's called economy cooking. Anyone of average incomes with a family to feed will end up having a casserole type dish of some sort once a week or so. It's a way to use up leftovers or other bits and bobs of food so it doesn't go to waste, since food costs money and it's expensive to throw away food. Just saying.....

>>5621947
that looks pretty awful, but at least its interesting. Do you ever cook meals?

>>5621806

My mom and dad are actually much better bakers than cooks. My mom used to make fresh scones, madeleines, and Swedish pancakes. She was also particularly good an tiramisu and grasshopper pie. My dad made great crepes and cookies.

My parents are both actually really good cooks. Pic is because my mums biggest fault when I was a kid was making chips with something frozen 3 nights a week

>>5622018
When I was a kid whenever I had a friend over it would be frozen pizza and chips, she would always let them know "we usually have something healthy" when really they didn't care.

>>5621957
Oh yeah, and my mom cooked mostly other things but as >>5621956 pointed out it is a lot easier and cheaper to cook for five this way. Casseroles just always remind me of growing up.

My mom is an educated organic cook and my dad is a pastry maker in his free time, can't quite find anything that sums up that goodness

every. fucking. night.

But now I live by myself and cringe every time I pass the frozen section in a store.

>>5622092
I feel ya man. I feel ya.

>>5622098
It's funny because I'm actually drinking a cup of coffee and I really need to shave.

My dad found out a good marinade for steaks like 10 years ago
The only thing he's changed about it is more salt

seriously I'f I'm going over for diner I have to cut salt from my diet for like a week before going

>>5622092
is it not good, i've never had lasagna and I wanted to try it, but not have to make it

>>5622108
Same here, only it's a glass of bourbon and root beer.

I don't shave on off-days.

>>5622120

>seriously I'f I'm going over for diner I have to cut salt from my diet for like a week before going

the 80s called, they want their science b ack

>>5622123
Frozen lasagna varies a lot in quality. Stouffers is pretty much average tier. Not great not terrible.

Homemade lasagna isn't hard to make though. And it's pretty cheap if you don't use meat.

>>5622071
>educated organic cook
wut

>>5622133
>And it's pretty cheap if you don't use meat.

Or decent cheese. Good cheese is costly.

My dad's a pretty decent cook. His main hobby us smoking/bbq/grilling/etc, so there's always a surplus of boston butt, brisket, and ribs in our house after a competition. After he got a Big Green Egg we've had a lot more smoked chicken and fish as of late, since it's so much more convenient.

My mom on the other hand, grew up with two parents who couldn't cook much of anything well at all, so all she ever makes outside of salad is baked chicken thighs or breasts. Thank god my father just automatically cooks the main protein for any given family function we have.

>can't handle the crust

>>5622245
Is that canned biscuit crust?

My old man is old fashioned. If he can get something for free he'll never pay for it. Hunting, fishing and a small garden.

Rednecks man.

>>5621806

>>5622245
that crust looks great
so does the rest but i don't like corn

>>5621841
same, mother can't stand any sort of seasoning though, so EVERYTHING she cooked had no salt or pepper or anything///

at least my dad likes to experiment as much as I do, but he's one of those who does things his way and it LITERALLY NEVER works out, not exaggerating either

>>5622275
Lel fucking this
My parents would always have a fucing 5 lb jar of pre-peeled garlic in their fridge
I had to brush my teeth 3 times a day so kids at school wouldn't look at me funny

I don't feel like looking for a picture
but my old man had this ancient grill that never worked right, so everything burnt to a crisp.
I thought I hated hamburgers until my almost step mom made me a juicy fucker at 14. Garlic, pepper, salt, and that trick with the egg with the meat

Whenever I make hamburgers for him he always cries they're uncooked.

>>5621867
that looks pretty good m80 but why use shit cuts of meat? You make that boneless and I'll be there at 8.

>>5622348

because the bone-in cuts taste better and are more moist. you can keep the breast, the legs are where the flavor is.

>>5622240
man that brisket looks so fucking good

I don't know why my parents allowed me to eat out at fast food shit restaurants all the time as a kid. I never wanted to eat what my dad cooked since it "looked yucky". I've been cooking for myself for a while but until I was around 18 or so all I really ate was fast food and shitty premade frozen stuff on occasion.

>>5621841
what utter horseshit. you use canned tomatoes,oil, onion,salt, basil, oregano and whatever you like anyway.Why reinvent the wheel. I like hunts or delmonte as a base. If you have hours to cook, sure it's nice to make your own sauce, but the result is basicly the same or worse. I ate at some friends home recently. Her "signature" home made marinara sauce. hunks of uncooked tomatoes (didn't even peel the things) slices of almost raw garlic, zucchini, twice the salt of seawater, and ground turkey that wasn't browned, homemade rolls that could double as baseballs, no butter- bad for you- and sangria made with 1 bottle cheap wine and kool-aid. I like stir fry and pasta primavera. not when I want marinara sauce.easiest way, start with a base you like, adjust. and for vegan/vegetarians, even the "meat flavored" ones? very few animals were harmed. it's like dollar store chicken and noddle soup at some point a chicken might have walked through it.

>>5622361
You should be hella ashamed of yourself. That looks mighty tasty

>>5621806

It probably sums up my cooking as well. Especially when I'm hungover.

>>5621911
wow. I wish I had parents like these

>>5621940
Firs time I actual gagged on a food pic

>>5622379
it does look nasty as dogburger. I bet it is a europeeon take on "American" food.

>>5621940
They are actually alright.

>>5621895
God yes

>>5622355
>implying bonless thighs arent the beesknees

>>5622007
i can fucking taste the kilos of sugar over here

do not want

>>5621806
Got me right in feels op. the feels that are just a bit on the disgusted side of nostalgia.

If i had another pic it would be this...

Man.. My parents were pretty bad cooks.

>>5621867
what does this have to do with your parents?

>>5622357
I unfortunately didn't have any photos of one my dad has cooked, but it practically looks the same. Sans-extra sauce. Brisket does look damn good though.

>>5621806
Because taking the time to cut things to adequate size relative to flavor is for pussies.

>>5621873
Surely not Hainanese chicken rice all day erry day? Because that would be pretty awesome.

No image but my parents cooking = perfectly cooked meat...um... 5 more minutes just to be sure. Dry meat.

I'm chinese

>>5622735
Let me cut this ribeye open for you to check if its done bro.

My father's is probably worse

>they stopped making this stuff years ago and I don't know where it's coming from

Everything except meat and dairy came from cans or jars. Anything that couldn't be microwaved was just shoved ib the oven for 20 minutes. Pizza with thin, dry crust. I was convinced I hated steak until I atually tried steak that wasn't the cheapest cut well done.

My mum had a habit of adding a pinch of salt or something just as asinine to a jar of premade sauce and calling it homemade.

>>5621940
>red cheddar cheese

What the fuck is red cheddar

>>5621947
>>5622005
...I'd eat that.

>>5622837
>meatloaf mix

Really? Isn't Meatloaf easy enough as it is?

>Ground beef, pork, turkey, chicken, or a mixture of any combination thereof
>Breadcrumbs, panko, or some sort of thickener
>eggs
>sauce to taste
>vegetables to preference, usually sauted
>Mould and bake

>>5621916
different shapes of pasta don't count as different types of food

>>5622370
kinda looks like paella to me, that's a bit elaborate for a hangover breakfast

>>5622725
that's a god tier start. you must've eaten some amazing pies as a tot.

>>5621806
>sum up your parents cooking with one image.

Of course if you'd have asked her to make meatloaf, spaghetti or any other "American" meal, mom would have fucked it up somehow...

>>5622952
Is your mom single?

>>5622678
that makes my eyes water just looking at it

>>5622988
I'm with this guy, will she do a threesome?

>>5622988
>>5622998

You'll have to ask her yourself.

>>5623008
My shovel is ready so what's her name?

This shit right here. My mom would put this shit on EVERYTHING. Her god-awful meatloaf. Her hockey-puck lamb chops. Her rubbery beef stroganof. I envy you guys who had parents that could cook something legit. In high-school, my culinary masterpiece was attempting to cook Costco Red Baron mini-pizzas all the way through without getting the frozen center. Until I turned 18, I had no idea what good food tasted like.

>>5623050
>I envy you guys who had parents that could cook something legit

If tasteless burn food are legit them my mom is

>>5622852
Look up Red Leicester, which is fabulous.. Or, conversely, there's a thing called red cheddar here in the states, that's the cheddar with the red wax covering.

Every. Meal.

>>5622245
>corn on pizza

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Moms food tastes like 1969.

>>5622363
>using canned tomatoes
>not from a co-op or farmers market
you filthy casual

>>5622363
>If you have hours to cook, sure it's nice to make your own sauce, but the result is basicly the same or worse.
Projecting hard. Please do not equate your own shitty cooking ability with the ability of everyone else.

>Good morning Anon, I cooked bacon for breakfast

>>5623235
>I also got some lovely liver for dinner tonight. It was on special!

>nothing was ever authentic, everything made from a packet.

Not taking pot shots at my mom, she was a pretty good cook. But holy shit my dad wouldn't know how to make anything other than a peanut butter sandwich if he tried.

>>5623238
Hot holy god fucking dongs and sweet sassy mallassy christ, I've eaten just about everything and this smell alone is enough to make me gag when my neighbors make it, with my windows closed.

>>5623235
I learned this little trick in my stay in Italy. Lightly (LIGHTLY) pan fry some thin cut pancetta and serve with a croissant and a tart fruit jam, like apricot. That flavor alone almost made me masturbate in the dining area.

>>5623273
Oh god no, not dad problems.

My dad can't cook chicken for shit, it's always over-peppered, under-salted, and over-cooked. It's more instant chicken jerky than it is actual food.

>Both parents can cook.
>Dad is white and can cook all the delicious southern and freedom food.
>Mom is Mexican and can cook Mexican food.
>Was fat all my life growing up.

>>5623293
if only I could express how mu.ch I knew this feel right now. this image will have to do.

>>5622275
As long as it's not bleached garlic, there's nothing wrong with a lot of it.

My dad was horrible. The only thing he could cook is barbeque. Everyday meals included spaghetti (so much fucking spaghetti. And it was always just angelhair + canned sauce.), boxed Macaroni and Cheese, and frozen or canned vegetables. My parents divorced, so I lived at my dad's house half the time and my mom's house the rest of the time. My mom could cook, and she got a boyfriend named Stefan who could really cook. Everything was made from scratch. Stefan made some pretty bitching Mac and Cheese, and my mommade the best Mashed Potatoes. I did get my mom to buy me a lot of frozen foods like hot pockets and tamales though, lol.

>>5622010
kek'd

For the last few years that I lived at home my mother tried her best to become a better cook. But as far as she got was just using spice rubs on everything. Didn't matter what it was, there was a jarred, pre mixed spice blend she would put on everything.

My father doesn't cook. Well, he grills, and he can make some simple meals, but he doesn't actually do much cooking.

I'm hardly a great cook by any standards though, so please don't think I'm talking shit but I think of myself as some great chef.

>>5623480
forgot image.

My mum barely cooks, mostly because my little brother is a little shit.
But holy shit, my grown up sisters! Magic. 15 and 17 years older than me, and staying at their houses is amazing!
Especially if the eldests husband is doing BBQ, always gives me a small glass of his homebrew while we chat, then I get his amazing meats and my sisters god like sides. Seriously, gorunga potatoes with beer basted beef ribs. Heaven.

>>5622007

Is that a Carac with chocolate pastry?

>>5623774
looks like toothpaste smothered on top of gelatinised dog shit.

>>5623480
>>5623487
Honestly I opened the image without reading the above post, and thought that your dad left you and your mom, and she tried to compensate by poorly attempting to get into grilling because she felt bad for you. Man that was sad

>>5623778
I think it looks great. The chocolate might be a little less fluffy than desired, and the icing/fondant might not be sparklingly green, but I bet it's damn tasty. A good carac is something like a large, creamy oreo cookie with a flaky, wholesome crust instead of a hard cookie

>>5622778
im chinese and that's the first time i've laughed at that joke

Pic related, even though we're poor, my mom's cooking is glorious.

They arent terrible cooks in genera, it just feels like sometimes they don't even know how much seasoning they add to food.

like the other day I bought some thai bird's eye chilis instead of the crappy supermarket chilis that hardly have any heat at all.
My mother made a stir fry and added like 8 of the bastards because they "were so tiny".

Yeah I had a good laugh, but you couldn't taste anything else in the dish anymore.

>>5621895
I like canned chili, but sweet jesus man, home make stuff once in a while. So so good.

>>5622275
Are you my son from the future? I eat so much garlic bugs won't land on my skin.

Potatoes.
Nothing but fucking potatoes.
Father's Logic:
>"Hmm, what goes well with stir fry? Rice? Noodles? Fuck it, potatoes it is."
The joys of being Irish.

>>5621895
u serious!?

Laziness.

>>5623291
I actually quite like liver, but my dad just likes to cook most of his meat in the microwave because it doesn't stick to the pan (including the bacon)

My parents being alcoholics and heavy smokers meant that they could not taste anything. But they loved salt.the most retarded thing she has ever made is well-done roastbeef. It was like shoeleather.. Those people could kill anything.

Say what you want about us chosen, but at least we know good food.

>>5621888
>with beans

that's not chili at all, everyone knows real chili doesn't have beans in it

I don't know why but they always heat everything in the oven at 350, regardless of what the recipe calls for. I even once noticed them changing the oven heat to 350 after I had started it at 425 for a frozen pizza. I've noticed this at someone else's house as well. Any reason people do this?

>>5624029
>Any reason people do this?

Well, I can think of certain times when you'd want to do that: for example, it's common to preheat the oven very hot when cooking a roast. You put it in for, say, 5 minutes at 475 then turn it down to 350 for the remainder of the cooking. That helps brown the outside. 350 is also a common general purpose temp for reheating food that's already been cooked.

But always setting it at 350 no matter what you're doing? Silly. And setting to 350 when following a recipe that explicitly calls for a different temp? bizzare.

My dad used to be a good cook. Now, he barely cooks anymore. When he does, it's really half-assed, crazy shit most of the time. I'm talking about pre-packaged everything. Powdered soup, powdered sauces, instant mash, instant rice, frozen supermarket lasagna, frozen spring rolls, frozen stuffed items, you name it. The only time he cooks from scratch anymore is when he wants to stroke his ego like when we have company over, he'll randomly whip out something last minute, or when we're invited to a potluck event.

I can see my mom's passion for cooking, but to put it blunt, she's such a fucking pussy. she's afraid of everything. She cuts majority of vegetables with a BUTTER KNIFE. I'm not expecting her to be fast, but most of the time she takes upto an hour just peeling and cutting a couple of potatoes for a stew. When meat is involved, it's always ground, because she says it's easier and no cutting involved. No matter how much I try to help her, she's afraid to try new things. She always follows a recipe exactly, afraid to eyeball or improvise ingredients. We only have white onions instead of red for a specific dish? She won't make it with white. Her cooking is severely bland, because she's so conscious about sodium intake after she read some "horrifying facts about sodium" on the internet. You could count the amount of salt she puts in dishes with your fingers. She also has this habit of buying things she can't prepare, and then calling me to help her cook it.

Like atleast 4 times a week, fucking salad. I guess atleast I didn't get fat. British so it's even like we lived somewhere hot

>season chicken
>dad ruins it by covering it with jack daniel's bbq sauce

why did you even have me season it?

>mom cooks all her meats to a dry death
>well done burgers. well done steaks. dry chicken.
>does not season them. i wouldn't be surprised if she never used basil in her life
>we're grocery shopping together, look inside the cart
>frozen hashbrowns and a bag of potatoes
why even?

they aren't that great at it.

>>5624029
Sounds like your parents are autistic.

My mom cooks really good. Not like passionatly good, but better than most moms I know.

>>5622681
>Hainanese chicken rice every day

If only...

any form of those
>boiled + meat
>boiled + fish
>boiled + eggs
>boiled + soup
>boiled + sauce
>french fries
>potato pancakes
>potato roast

I've always enjoyed stuff that my parents cook. Meat, potatoes/noodles/rice, and a vegetable every dinner. And they cook 6/7 nights a week. We never really eat fast food for dinner unless we're on the road. I feel like I'm so lucky compared to most of you.

>>5621806
I started cooking my own food pretty early.

>>5623774
>>5623778
>>5623790

this also isnt my mom's, just some picture I found online. my moms is more of a aqua marine color (less saturated) with a nice layering of dark chocolate shavings and white cream on top. its pretty sweet but I think thats just the nature of the dessert.

>Mom is a fantastic cook
>Dad is also a pretty good cook, and great on the grill

>mfw I have been blessed by the culinary gods for my parent's cooking skills

>>5623774
>>5623778
>>5623790
>>5624230
looks more like this

Mom makes some pretty good stuff. Dad doesn't make anything that doesn't come frozen in a box. Mom even does all the grilling.

>>5623974
>peeling potatoes
any nutritional value is in the skin, take that away and they're just filler

>>5624260
>Mom even does all the grilling.
Does she do it wearing nothing but an apron?

My mum thought she was a good cook even though the average dinner would be red meat, frozen chips, frozen veg (2 portions max) and potatoes.

>>5624291
>chips
>potatoes
Why both?

>>5624294
Probably couldn't find any other carb foods as easy to cook.

>>5624297
Why do you need more than one portion of carbs?

>>5622898
>title of image litterly sais paella
>looks like paella to me

twat

>>5624305
Probably because the veg portion itself was too small so she thought it wouldn't be a filling dinner otherwise.

But there were likely plenty of times when it was just 1 carb.

My mom did that two times

>>5622552
>removing the built-in handle

>>5621940
>hotdog on pizza
>american
god dammit, no it isn't

Two bags of these were my daily nutrition until I was 15. It was cheap, easy, children like it and my parents couldn't be bothered to actually bring something edible, they themselves lived on cheap alcohol. Sometimes they would "treat" themselves and eat up my "food". Then I had nothing, which brought me the habit of always eating the whole stock up before someone else could take it.

I was removed from my parents by youth care with 15 and am still experiencing the results. I had to learn everything anew, how to use fork and knives, what to eat, how to hold a stock, how to cook, I had to develop my tastebuds and not cringe at new flavours, everything.
This was five years ago, nowadays I like cooking, I like mediterranean food best but I'm still learning.

I ate this today, my mother cooked it

>>5624368
>2 crisps bags a day
Were you emaciated?

>I like mediterranean food best but I'm still learning.
Tried Japanese? I think those 2 are the best and also healthiest. Sorry to hear about your childhood.

>>5624368
Awww, this makes me sad. When I read things like this, it makes me want to parent the shit of these kids and make them all the good food I can think of .

>people having children without first being wealthy, fit, intellectual and good cooks
Degenerates the lot of them.

Something like this, probably not that many dishes daily. We usually had about 3 dishes on workdays, on busy days only 2.

mum's cooking is pretty great actually

>>5624435
I'd say that at least two of those things should be mandatory.

>>5622130

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-upHSP9KU

My mom would cook a shitload Sunday night and then we'd just eat the same thing every night until the weekend. Understandably, as she had to feed 3 kids practicing sports 25+ hours a week and her husband.

Most things would last OK, with only a slight decline in quality throughout the week. These were typically stir fries and pasta based dishes.

Other things aged really well. Shepherd's Pie actually got better as it got older. Same with her stews.

Other things started out shit and ended up inedible. I actually dreaded when she made steak. She would buy the cheapest cut of beef and cook it way too low for way too long. The thing would emerge from the grill with the interior color of OP's pic inside and out. It could only be cut with a serrated edge and I remember my jaw hurting from chewing so much.

>>5621940
retail packaged poverty food

>>5624441
Chinese master race

>>5624110
probably this. my dad loves potatoes so they are a side with whatever protein wer having 8/10 times.
>feels good man

Always meatballs or sausage, with either spaghetti, macaroni or potatoes. Lingonberrysauce and gravy occasionally.

Even today I still use their recipe almost completely unchanged. The only thing I do differently is the ratio of garlic to ginger since I'm a pussy and not a huge fan of ginger.

>>5624441
This nigga knows what's up.

Mom was the manager of Pizza Hut so I'd just get fucking pizza every night. She says she's a good cook and I always believed it as a kid. Now that I've become a hell of a cook I've come to realize she sucks with a grill and the one recipe she really knows is fucking chicken and dumplings.

My mom cooks Eastern European Peasant food. My mom will make porkolt at least 3 or 4 times a week. It's paprika flavoured stew with meat of your choosing. She always makes pork and serves it with nokedli (egg noodles), but I occasionally prefer mine with rice. Pic related

>>5624686
I forgot the pic.

I can hardly stand this stuff any more.

>>5624770
What's wrong with it, guey?

>>5624795
Nothing wrong with it but you do get tired of it if your parents makes it all the time.

>>5624694
>>5624686
tfw my mom is a terrible cook.
I could only wish to have her make something like that as a child.
So now I cook and I do make meals like that. Fucking so good anon.

>>5624015
but the fact its in a can doesn't bother you?

>>5624694
looks like shit bro

My mom's best dish is pho. She used to cook a lot when I was younger and it was always amazing Vietnamese food. Now she's more tired and cooks some pretty bland Vietnamese food. I don't blame her, she's older now. But her pho is still so good.

My grandma on the other hand, still cooks like a fucking champ. Pho, bun bo hue, and hu tieu are my fucking favorites from her. I go there every Saturday night for dinner. God damn. Sometimes I wish I could invite people who have never had homemade pho over to my grandma's for dinner.

>>5623250
iktf.

mom was just a lazy cook, any sauce, gravy, seasoning or anything came premade. even the vegetable sides came from a can, bread was premade rolls. the best thing she makes is fried chicken and chicken fried steak. those were always great.

dad makes better food but limits his cooking to a very small selection and doesn't cook often. he can make amazing smoked brisket, gumbo, grilled steaks and homemade jerky, top notch. I don't think I've ever seen him cook anything else.

>>5624975
nice
do you have the recipe for this?

>>5624670
>mom was the manager of Pizza Hut

every childs dream, pizza everyday. not good though, did you get obese?

>>5625018
Pretty basic dish.

Fry a nice piece of pork fillet for 2-3 minutes in a very hot pan on each side. Clean it first (like remove white strings etc) of course. Put some salt and pepper on it, put it in some tinfoil and add a few herbs you like if you want to and put it in the oven for about 20-30 minutes with 80-100°C.

Cook the fresh green beans for 4-5 minutes. Put them into ice cold water, wrap them with beacon like on the pic and fry them in a pan until the beacon is a bit brown.

Make some mashed potatoes.

For the sauce cut some clened mushrooms into slices, add a very tiny sliced little onion, fry it with some good oil until the onions begin to get some color, add a little bit white wine, a litte spoon of sugar, a cup of crème fraîche and some herbs you like.

Serve on a hot plate with the filet sliced and add some additional salt and fresh pepper if you like to.

food was always made in huge quantities for a small family because it saved money making in bulk and was good for leftovers in lunch the next day.

but at what cost????? everyone always over ate and we are all fat.

My mom was reasonably good, but not adventurous at all. Didn't cook very many different things. That was definitely partially my fault, I was a really picky eater when I was younger. A lot of foods made me feel sick. My dad is alright, but he never cooked when I lived with him. He's gotten better since they separated and he started dating a professional cook.

This was my childhood. When my mom was working from 7-10, she taught me how to make basic stuff and be safe so I could fend for myself. This and chicken with frozen veggies and fruit was my lil chef special up until I was 10.

I still love this stuff and even improved on it by making it from scratch.

>>5622725
I like your parents.

>>5625097
That is possibly the best version of that dish I've ever seen.

>>5625197
Liver dishes well made are indeed pretty great and this comes from a guy who is more than sceptical when it comes to stuff made out of giblets in general.

>>5623138
i have that book and some of that shit is awsome fuck you.

Why are Americans in general so bad at cooking? I come from a typical American family and all they made were easy fix meals that came from a box
Other countries seem to have a lot of passion for cooking even if they aren't that wealthy. Americans have plenty of money but they cook on the shittiest ingredients as if they can barely get by

>>5625066
seems like maybe you got sent to some kind of job education being you can afford internet. so your youth fat propelled your future, so....

>>5621956
they're also delicious

>>5621806
This about sums it up.

>>5621888
i hate this shit, i hate this at all times.

I can't blame my mom for the shitty food. her life sucks and she has no oven and two working burners.
If it can be microwaved, stove-topped or crock-potted she'll do it.
but my dad and her have fucked up GI and have restricted diets.

When i lived at home i would make the dinner a lot, really nice ones and i tried to make mom and dad feel better.

>>5624770

ever notice how this particular plate of beans and rice is in EVERY FUCKING MEXICAN RESTUARANT.

im mexican and not I would not eat this dog shit flavorless beans and grainy,tasteless rice with a
few pity carrots and peas

come over to my place and see how a REAL mexican mom cooks
and it doesn't start by adding more water to the beans for more servings

I wouldn't say my parents were top notch cooks but my mum was pretty good. She helped teach me a lot of making dishes when I became more independent. Plus she makes god-tier pasta dishes which has helped me eat cheap in university.

My dad on the other hand is quite the opposite. He has taught me a few small things that work well together but ever since his health scare he is very stubborn with food. Anything that is different from his usual menu or not pure carbs he will usually not eat. The countless times I've made dishes for him to help out he's thrown away because he rather eat cornflakes is crazy.

He's a massive hypocrite in the kitchen.
>Won't eat cheap processed meat for sandwiches
>Loves basic value processed frozen chicken and fish fillets
>States he's a good at making soups
>Refuses to use a hand blender or use any ingredients other than spinach, potato and salt
>Claims to only eat healthy food
>Lives on poor value cheese and raisins.

Hell even today he refused to buy my Granddad, who's very ill, unable to cook for himself and losing weight, white bread. He thought it would be too unhealthy for him despite him hating wholemeal. He had already lost a shit ton of weight and on caffeine pills, why would reducing sugar intake be helpful?

The worst thing is he refuses people cooking for themselves so when I'm home I'm stuck with pretty bad meals. My dad is the adult version of a picky child and a snobby health concious hipster. Pic related, it's similar to his "soup"

The pic is because we eat mostly Jamacian food. To be honest though, she knew how to cook pretty well.

The only thing she could not do under any circumstance was bake from scratch. Cookies would be burnt, Brownies would be black. That's where my Father came in. He worked at a Bakery when he was a kid, his first job at 16. They began teaching other to cook, that's how they spent most of their time together.

Cooking is the way my friends. Cooking is the way.

>>5621940
these memories when i used to make hotdog bread pizza

being Dominican means you eat this 5 times a week at lunch.
Meat varies but tends to be mostly fucking stewed chicken.
add avocados and tostones /fried ripe plantain and that's pretty much it.

Oh and salad consisting of lettuce, tomato and cabbage.

it ain't bad, my mom is very good at cooking dominican food, but don't let her cook anything else because she will bastardize it and not use a fucking recipe even if her life depended on it.
I'm not saying it would taste bad, but it would just not be what it was supposed to be.

>>5623974
>not knowing skins contain most of the flavor

>>5624372
>5624372
looks so bland i mourn your loss

>>5625019
>even asking

>>5622837
I have not laughed that hard all week.

couldn't cook at all. when I got a packed lunch for school I would often open it up to find what my mom called a "clowny-faced sandwich," because the joke was that there was nothing in it and it was just two pieces of bread.

>>5625543

you live with your mom. faggot.

>Pic
I don't know what it was...She never really did anything extraordinary, and since my father died when I was 3 (Thus she being the only care taker) a lot of it was easy make stuff like hamburger helper and that...But it all just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy remembering her cooking.
Though she could make a BEAST of a lasagna. It's gotten to the point where EVERYONE in my family has stopped asking her for christmas gifts and only ask for a pan of her lasagna.

>>5626027
>Forgot pic

>>5625385

Too busy working to get that money.

>>5626047
A lot of other countries have the "Traditional" family unit.
Father works
Mother stays home and takes care of shit
This kind of family unit allows for the time, care, and effort required to make good meals and because the wife has nothing else to do, a lot of them turn it into a hobby and thus start enjoying it.
North American culture has basically made it so that BOTH parents have to work just to keep living, so time becomes a luxury and something that SHOULD be fun and enjoyable becomes a chore, so they do the best they can as quickly as they can.

>>5624112
spoiled momma's boy, isn't it past your bedtime?

my dad can cook but doesnt
my mom cant really cook and has started learning how to cook once she was married to my dad.

her cooking is basically simple, plain (little to no salt), and healthy dishes

lots of chinese herbal soups growing up

My mom is generally speaking a good cook even though she has some swings and misses. However she makes a baked macroni and cheese that is simply amazing. Its a perfect balance of every ingredient and she makes it a thing to make it for me whenever I come back to home on leave.

>>5626216
Ew man wtf?!
Mussels? with dates? and bitter melon? WHAT

and that pork stock looks bone free and was just a quick boil of sliced pork belly

I've never eaten anything salty with dates...Usually that shit goes in with sweet rice as a hot or cold dish.

Pork soup was done wrong so it was probably flavorless, and that goes well with the bitter melon, but add some sliced pickled mustard and ginger if you're not a fan of the bitterness.

also fuck the mussels

>>5624238
i too am mexican

>>5626229
dont you know drying things intensifies the flavor

>>5626216
I've had similar growing up....... dem feels

>>5626233
I have a RAGING food boner
Also want a nice, authentic burito

>>5626268
there's no authentic when it comes to burritos. It a home dish for travelers or laborers as the story goes. It's not some special dish from a famous restaurant or a king's chef.

>>5626274
Fair enough.
Still want one.
Got any good marinades or seasoning for spicy steak?

>>5626280
no all my stuff is for pork or chicken

>>5621895

Canned chili is alright but fuck that man, make it yourself!
Making chili is literally one of the easiest recipes, you really cant fuck it up.
>pic related
I've done this recipe about 3 times now and its still great.
( i didn't toast and grind my chili you can just use store bought. it'll be under the mexican aisle in any supermarket.)

>>5626302
Damn now i wanna make this again, buts is ball swamp july.

There's a reason I got into cooking at a young age.

I couldn't stand my parents' cooking,

>>5622833
is that fucking RICE SOUP

>>5623787
Fuck.

I don't understand this thread.

Are you all teenagers that live at home and are dependent on your parents to cook for you?

Or is this fondly looking back?

I need to get a job and get out of here...

>>5624188
Why are you eating plastic tube elbows covered in ketchup?

>>5626364
The latter, but for some people here the memory may not necessarily be a good one.

>>5626326
Got a problem with this?

>>5622725
Why do I want to play with that kidney and throw it at the wall?...

My dad was a chef for over a decade so I always grew up with well made food. Most of the time it was steak with baked potato and broccoli but it varied

My mother didn't know how to cook and only knew how to bake but picked up some stuff from my dad. Now that they are separated most of her cooking is just dried pasta and seasoning pre-made tomato sauce. She will randomly find a recipe and make it (she can do that much thanks to my father) but still is a bit of a klutz in the kitchen

Her new husband is another story. Terrible but has his head too far up his ass to know that.

>>5625019
I got a little chubby until I started learning how to cook

>Parents buy a lot of great quality ingredients
>Waste them terribly
>No sauces, ever
>Well done steaks (with no sauces)
>Poking holes in salsiccia to make the fat run out on the grill
>Side dishes? Never
>Tortellini? You better like them with plain butter and salt!

All that fucking money wasted .

not even indian, dad rocks dat vindaloo

>>5621827
That's fettuccine

>>5621873
is that the kind that gets baked in the oven with some onion?
we have this weekly, but not sick of it. friend always begs for leftovers

>>5624614
excuse me snir, but that's RED cheddar cheese.

>>5622833
I dunno man. My dad doesnt even know how to boil rice.

>>5624372
But some butter oin that shit yo

Pic related just like my mom's expect her's isnt that colorful as the only spice she ever uses is salt.

Atleast my dad has picked up on cooking quite a lot during the later years and makes some pretty damn good food nowadays, shame i dont live with my parents anymore.

>>5626807
thats how bad the ramen got

No salt at all, my parents feared it when i was young.

>>5622040
Grim.

>>5622725
Your parents aborted you?

>>5621806
this is a stew

>>5627024
It's pretty good with diced bacon, onions and mushroom bro.

>>5623487
>CHEF BOBBY BUZZ 420 ISLAND JERK SEASONING
What.

>>5627032
unseasoned with raw tomatoes and bland meat.
thats what i get

>>5627038
Yeah, that's pretty bad. I just got elbow macaroni with meatballs or sausage + ketchup every day. Occasionally fish fingers. Would have killed for that "stew" back then.

>>5627042
no you wouldnt, that "stew" is what my mother cooks, my father cooks macaroni with meatballs and sausage, ketchup is optional ofcourse.

i prefer to cook on my own but i have no idea what im doing.

twice a week

FUG :DDDD

My father is a mediocre when it comes to following recipes and when he has actually time to cook during holidays, otherwise it's some potatoes+sausage erry day. My mom cannot cook actual food for shit. Doesn't know anything about seasoning ( dosage, what to spices to use etc. ) Will blindly follow any recipe without even actually looking the food/tasting it. For example, she is cooking something and someone might point out that you're going to burn it she will get absolutely furious and maintain that she will follow the recipe from the beginning to the end and does not accept any advice.

She is somehwat good at baking and making sweets & cakes though, but any other food is spoiled to absolute shit-tier

such was life in a poor post-communist country in the 90s

insert picture of lentils

Oh boy, sunday fish fingers!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a great-cook parent who lost their passion for cooking ;_;.

My mom is a really awesome cook, but unfortunately she's an empty nester with my dad now ever since my sister and I moved out. She claims to not cook because "no one eats it anymore."

Even then when I visited for a week, I was super bummed that we kept going out to eat. I told her I wanted HER food, but she insisted that she "didn't have time" to cook. No way. Feelsbadman. But nonetheless, she only cooked one time for me-- I chowed down the dish she made and had thirds.

Based slav parents

>>5627168
I see they were able to cook it while taking squatting session break

>>5627198

It's mandatory every 3 hours to take squatting breaks in slavistan

>>5621873
>hainanese chicken rice
>britbongistan
U wot?

>>5621911

For the first time I am saying this without any sarcasm or ridicule:
Cool story, bro.

That is truly inspiring.

Despite it being summer. I'd love to have some right now.

Both my mum and my dad are excellent in the kitchen.

I rarely cook for them because I am not anywhere near their standards.

They are lovely people and would have nothing but praise for me, but I know I still have a long way to g before I am ready to serve dinner to them.

I'm 30, BTW.

Pic is a recent kitchen scone experience

>>5627034
>mfw it seriously says that on the can

>>5625728
lol

>>5624372
Do you take pictures of your every meal? I'm not trying to be insulting; I often wonder why people seem to have so many pictures of their meals.

>>5627337
Nu wil ik boerenkool.

>>5621806
beef wellington.png

>>5624334
I've done that only once yay

both of my parents are really good cooks and growing up in a stupid multicultural household gave me a lot of food choices as well

my dad used to cook every sunday morning though but not anymore!

I was raised by my grandparents and my grandma has an unhealthy relationship with soup. I drank so much soup on my childhood. Every time it was soup. I don't hate soup though I find it very tasty, but my grandmother was over the top with everyday twice a day soup.

In any case, I accept her soups were great most of the time except when she tried rice based soups that was disgusting

The problem is that my dad is a really great cook but he's too lazy to make anything usually.

My parents like to think they're better cooks than they actually are, but my dad makes some pretty good ribs

>>5621806

>my mother's cooking
>dried out lamb chops with soggy steamed veggies she "cooked" by throwing them in a tupperware dish with water and nuking them in a microwave
>rinse and repeat 4-5 times a week

this was like all we had for 16 years

>>5622952
PIEROGI STRONG

>>5627636
>throwing them in a tupperware dish with water and nuking them in a microwave

I-I'm scared.

>>5627652


mushy, soggy and disgusting, bland.


>dish always swimming with green tinged water
>any nutrition or taste died in the water

>>5621806

>frozen shit like fish fingers or off brand nuggets with potato somethings and home brand peas
>tfw this greeting me after school every night

we weren't even poor, I'm realizing more and more that my mother just did not give a fuck and was lazy

>>5627659
>broscience the post

>>5627683

>bit of poetic license
>autists jump all over you

>>5627690
poetry is dead, artfag

>>5627683

but that's actually correct though, you can boil the nutrients out of vegetables if you overdo them

>>5626233

where is the source video for this?

>>5626704
I guess focusing on cooking took your mind off of your boner.

>>5627085
Nice meme :^)

>>5622952
Bigos, pierogi, ryba.
Don't do this to me, I'm hungry.

>mum was a pretty good cook
>Dad is an alcoholic (not abusive but brain dead retarded at times) and can't cook for shit
>mum passes away on vacation when I was 14 at the time I really wanted to learn to cook

>>5622040
lel

>>5624015
>everyone knows real chili doesn't have beans in it
what the fuck

i come to /ck/ one time and i see this shit

>>5628998
It's a Texan thing. For some reason they don't put beans in it.

>>5627723
on youtube and vimeo