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Is your Mum a good cook?
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Brian Fellows
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I think she's pretty good. But my standards are pretty low.
Walter White Walker
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I am a pretty good cook, especially on the grill. My mom is really, really good, though. I learned a lot from her and my grandma (her mother) growing up about how to do it properly.
MasterShotgun
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My mom is decent. She knows a good number of recipes, but she has a tendency to overcook things, especially if she's baking. I've been learning to cook for myself for a while and will often ask her for advice, but I usually have to shave off a few minutes off her suggested cooking times.
My dad is better and will be my go-to source to learn how to grill. His main fault is his unhealthy recipes, but that's also something I can adjust on my own.
My great-grandmother was of course the best of the family. Our own matriarch of southern cooking. She even compiled a recipe book for family members, which has become a customary gift given at weddings. She's since passed, and damn do I get nostalgic about eating at her house. Too bad my mom never acquired her full talent and passion.
My dad is better and will be my go-to source to learn how to grill. His main fault is his unhealthy recipes, but that's also something I can adjust on my own.
My great-grandmother was of course the best of the family. Our own matriarch of southern cooking. She even compiled a recipe book for family members, which has become a customary gift given at weddings. She's since passed, and damn do I get nostalgic about eating at her house. Too bad my mom never acquired her full talent and passion.
I think my mom has natural talent for cooking, but sometimes she sells herself short. One of the reasons I did not want to move far when going to University was my Mom's cooking. It's kind of silly I know, but she is very good. She is also the reason I'm big on cooking and food in general.
My mom always enjoyed cooking. Since my parents moved to new house couple of years ago, she seems to enjoy cooking even more. However, she does get into a pattern of cooking same food over and over again. She does work, so that's understandable.
Upon my insistence coupled with her rejuvenated love for cooking, she has been trying new things recently.
My mom always enjoyed cooking. Since my parents moved to new house couple of years ago, she seems to enjoy cooking even more. However, she does get into a pattern of cooking same food over and over again. She does work, so that's understandable.
Upon my insistence coupled with her rejuvenated love for cooking, she has been trying new things recently.
Like you wouldn't believe. She employs the kind of cuisine that is incredibly simple, yet even more sustaining. I owe it to her cooking style that I don't have to live off frozen pizzas today. Also, there is absolutely nothing more awesome than getting home after a semester at uni, fully knowing that you're looking at a month of her amazing homecooked meals.
My mother is a bloody amazing cook. Not a day goes by that I miss her cooking since she lives in Florida now. There is not a single dominican restaurant in NYC that even remotely comes close to the food this woman can cook. She taught me some things but I still find myself asking her for advice over the phone for my meals or flat out just looking forward to the days I visit her or vice versa.
My mom is a solid cook when it comes to southern cuisine and she has many personal recipes she cooks well. When it comes to cooking things outside of her comfort zone, things dont turn out as good as her own recipes. I have taken many cooking classes and have learned to cook all kinds of things from several regions, so my skill has passed my moms. While my moms food doesnt turn out as well as my own, I still enjoy it when my mom cooks and invites me over. I wont turn down a free home cooked meal no matter who is cooking. When someone takes the time and spends hours cooking something for me to eat, I am not going to criticize or turn down the invitation.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Yes! Thousand times yes. And she knew that I felt that way cos when she would make dishes with food I did not like (nothing against her cooking just do not like certain dishes) she would get upset when I said meh to them. I told you mom I do not like squash! But yeah she is awesome all other Mexican places pale in comparison to her cookery. Also, her flour tortillas, with butter?! Get outta here haha. I have learned to make dishes I like but not Mexican and not like her.
when she actually tries, but that's like once in a blue moon. all those cookbooks and expensive cooking gadgets have a thick layer of dust on them.
she isn't cut from the same cloth as my aunt and grandma. they throw down in the kitchen on a daily basis.
i learned how to cook from my aunt & grandma but i got my mom's cooking work ethic. it's not as bad as her's though.
she isn't cut from the same cloth as my aunt and grandma. they throw down in the kitchen on a daily basis.
i learned how to cook from my aunt & grandma but i got my mom's cooking work ethic. it's not as bad as her's though.
brianjones
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i ate a lot of fast food growing up
DUFFMCWALIN
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Everyone in my family ranges from good to amazing as cooks. I'm so lucky.
She is competent in the kitchen, but not very adventurous or inspired. Uses far too little salt and overcooks meat. Also constantly has the dullest knives in the universe; makes cooking at her place annoying from time to time.
Place eggs in an electric kettle with enough cold water to cover them plus an extra inch. Turn the kettle on so it boils. Let the eggs hang out in there for 15 minutes. Remove eggs.
Place eggs in an electric kettle with enough cold water to cover them plus an extra inch. Turn the kettle on so it boils. Let the eggs hang out in there for 15 minutes. Remove eggs.
Reading what other people posted makes me so happy. It's really nice to see how proud most of you are of your mother's cooking skill. 
My mother is great cook too. She always has an open mind for trying out new dishes from different countries and culture, and she always did a great job even if it was a new recipe with ingredients she usually didn't use.
Glad I was usually appreciative of what she cooked, because ever since I moved out I have to do my darned best to finish my own cooked meals.
My mother is great cook too. She always has an open mind for trying out new dishes from different countries and culture, and she always did a great job even if it was a new recipe with ingredients she usually didn't use.
Glad I was usually appreciative of what she cooked, because ever since I moved out I have to do my darned best to finish my own cooked meals.
User 100115
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My mother is a total genius.
She has the sainted ability of taking seemingly random, unrelated things and bringing them together into a cohesive meal. This was especially useful since we grew up super poor.
I've yet to learn her skills, but I am getting there.
This guy gets how amazing it is.
She has the sainted ability of taking seemingly random, unrelated things and bringing them together into a cohesive meal. This was especially useful since we grew up super poor.
I've yet to learn her skills, but I am getting there.
This guy gets how amazing it is.
freshlylickedcat
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Yes, the best. I'm very fortunate to have an, all around, great mom.
styl3s
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What is your definition of a good cook? Any competent person can follow directions.
If you had a gun to my head i would say shes good at cooking what she knows, she's really good. But if you told her cook something she has never cooked before it would probably turn out questionable the first time because she likes to add her own flair to things.
Me and my grandmother are probably the best cooks in the family, i am extremely great at making italian food and i would consider myself a wizard on the grill. Level 90 grand wizard.
If you had a gun to my head i would say shes good at cooking what she knows, she's really good. But if you told her cook something she has never cooked before it would probably turn out questionable the first time because she likes to add her own flair to things.
Me and my grandmother are probably the best cooks in the family, i am extremely great at making italian food and i would consider myself a wizard on the grill. Level 90 grand wizard.
NobleGreenBeast
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My mom is a great cook. Her mother is not. I would like to learn how to cook one day.
The rest of my family loves the traditional cultural food she cooks, but whether she's cooking classic dishes or other country dishes, I don't enjoy it since she never seems to season it enough or doesn't realize some seasonings and flavors don't go together. Especially with seafood. Most good cooked seafood dishes aren't supposed to smell even worse before it left the ocean. I told this to my friends and they were like "You're crazy!" and then they tried her food and afterward went, "You were right."
I would feel bad not enjoying 95% of what she cooks, but she doesn't like my flavor profile when I cook (too spicy or creamy) so no hurt feelings.
I would feel bad not enjoying 95% of what she cooks, but she doesn't like my flavor profile when I cook (too spicy or creamy) so no hurt feelings.
CadetMahoney
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She is also a very nice lady.
Winterfang
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I honestly don't remember.
ActStriker
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Both my parents are good cooks. They got pretty different strengths and weaknesses for cooking, but they compliment each other pretty well.
Ultimadrago
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Very much so. I believe the woman could find a way to deliciously season a wooden log if given the chance.
EdibleKnife
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Yeah sure. She doesn't do it alot though. She also makes alot of African cuisine which I've never developed a taste for.
PeakPointMatrix
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Love my mom's cooking. She'd lovingly cook every dinner for us. I've moved away since then, miss it terribly. But I hope I can learn and adopt her techniques and recipies so I can cook the same for my kids one day
Spring-Loaded
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My mom is an amazing cook who undersells her skills.
She's an amazing cook, and it's a shame none of her talent has rubbed off on me or any of my siblings for that matter. Not only does she make the most delicious dinners, she used to bake brown bread for a restaurant she worked at and it seemed the whole town was in love with it. When it closed, people kept stopping her in the street to compliment her baking and thank her for making it all those years. She doesn't love it as much as my grandmother did though, who used to bake all kinds of things. My enduring memory of her - though I have many, for she died when I was eighteen - is of her in the kitchen, constantly baking, making cakes of all kinds with that big old-style bowl she had... and then there was the hob, which she didn't replace with an oven, and which she kept using up until the day she died.
I really miss her and all the wonderful smells that would hit your nose when went into the house. My mother is just as good a baker and cook and could make all the cakes she wanted to, but she really has no desire to. Sadly, years of waitressing has left her with swollen wrists and she is in pain at the moment while scans are done so she is understandably expending as little effort in the kitchen nowadays. I miss having a home-made meal every day as I had when I lived out home - I make an effort to get only fresh food, but it's still all ready-made stuff like pizza (by fresh I mean non-frozen) and fish pie and the like.
I really miss her and all the wonderful smells that would hit your nose when went into the house. My mother is just as good a baker and cook and could make all the cakes she wanted to, but she really has no desire to. Sadly, years of waitressing has left her with swollen wrists and she is in pain at the moment while scans are done so she is understandably expending as little effort in the kitchen nowadays. I miss having a home-made meal every day as I had when I lived out home - I make an effort to get only fresh food, but it's still all ready-made stuff like pizza (by fresh I mean non-frozen) and fish pie and the like.
â Narayan
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Very. The best cook I know. My siblings and I have inherited her skills, as we are all capable of making damn good food.
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