We always hear about home cooked meals "like Ma used to make."

But my mother wasn't that good in the kitchen. I remember really bland stuff, cookies burned black on the bottom,  broccoli cooked until it was grey, and turkey so dry you couldn't swallow it. 

I'm a much better cook than she was. So the unspeakable question:

Are you a better cook than your mother?

My mother asks me for recipes!  She was a cooking bag kinda gal.

As weird as this may sound, I don't recall my mother ever cooking so while I could burn water, I think just by turning the burner on the stove, I'm a better cook!

Probably. She did some things well and some things I don't do, like canning or bottling ketchup. My sisters were better cooks and different strengths. My brother is probably the best out of all of us, but I have my moments. The real question should be, are you better than your wife or girlfriend?


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Quote from: Gertrude on March 06, 2018, 10:30:44 PM
Probably. She did some things well and some things I don't do, like canning or bottling ketchup. My sisters were better cooks and different strengths. My brother is probably the best out of all of us, but I have my moments. The real question should be, are you better than your wife or girlfriend?


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And if you are.........................................
Don't admit to it ))))))

my grandmother was a better cook

Actually, I cook just as well as my mother. Phillip cannot tell the difference. On the other hand, my adoptive mother was such a horrific cook, that my adoptive father had to take over, just so the family could eat edible food. Ever had a burger cooked until it was indistinguishable from a charcoal briquette? Then serve that cold, on a stale bun, with no catsup, mustard, or anything else. That was the way my adoptive mother cooked.

Wife #1 had a habit of using wine to cook everything and the alcohol never really evaporated. 

yeahhhh my mom isn't a very good cook. She has a very bland sense of taste, she can't handle any spice at all and usually likes to order stuff plain. never any pizza toppings and when she gets a burger from Five Guys she just gets ketchup and pickles on it, that's it! There's not one single dish from my childhood that was her recipe that I crave and want her to make for me. I joke around with my sister and tell her that she can't have kids until mom learns how to cook because grandmas are supposed to be good cooks! 

Nah, my ma could wipe the floor with me when it comes to cooking. Although I am proud to say, I am a lad who knows how to cook. Or if there's something I don't, I'll figure it out. But my ma could make any old crap taste like it came from a 5 star restaurant with minimal effort. She wasn't a fanatical cook or anything. Just efficient. Both her and my stepdad were well into experimenting with weird health foods when I was a kid, and to make some of that jazz taste good takes skill.

But if it's something that's supposed to have wine in it, no guarantee there'll be any in the meal with her around

I am... but I haven't always been. My mom used to cook in restaurants and was a great cook when I was a kid. Now she doesn't care so her cooking is lousy.
I like to eat tasty but simple food so I learned to cook it. Also we have a variety of different dietary needs in our house so I've perfected cooking as balancing act.

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Absolutely yes.  Her awful cooking and complete inability to follow a cookbook recipe is what drove me to learn how to cook at an early age.

My mom used to work in School kitchens but she's a bit of a 2 veg meat and potatoes, cant handle spices but she does try new things (in her 80s) but recon I can do as well as she does

My Mum was a great cook, she could do everything. My parents were pretty unadventuourous when it came to food, pasta was about as exotic as it got! I can cook but my baking was and still is rubbish.