Anyone Have A Mom That Was "Not So Good" in The Kitchen?

DiAnna said:

You had a mother who cooked for you, and tried to raise you right... and you insult and abuse her in a damned internet forum? My mother wasn't a particularly good cook either, but you know what? We had food on the table every day. I decided to learn how to bake bread from scratch, and cook tasty meals from inexpensive meat cuts. Even then, with 5 kids, some of whom hated everything no matter how much time/effort/ingredients were expended on the meal, I eventually realized my mother had done the best she could with what she could afford and what she had to work with.

My suggestion is that YOU prepare 365 meals for a half-dozen people every year. Then get back to me about how successful you were.

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Moms are the backbone of every family

They always take care of everyone else first

Mine was a saint....and I miss her dearly

Treasure them....they don't last forever

Aunt Spiker said:

[Yes, replying to my post]

Tonight's dinner would be a damned good example of a dinner that SOME kids just DIDN'T like (and two are still sitting and eating as we speak). BUT - I swear - it's the best dinner I've fixed in months!


Shrimp tossed in a sweet butter (like what you'd get at Red Lobster with the tail)

Branberry salad (a sweet salad that's almost like Coleslaw)

Dipped braids (bread - braided, baked, and then baked with a sweet orange flavored butter to soften and flavor the crust)


Five star dining right there. Half the kids didn't care for it. Do I care? NO! It's not very often I can close my eyes while I eat dinner and imagine I'm in freaking Paris.

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Or, to make it look more plausible, I'll adopt you.

Chagos said:

Right, adopt me.

Or, to make it look more plausible, I'll adopt you.

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Plenty enough to go around since some kids eat so little. I spoil them and they don't even know it. When they're older they head to the store to whip up a cheap meal and realize that's one kitchen skill I didn't have. LOL

My mother was a marvelous cook. I took this for granted until I went off to college and begin visiting friends' families on the weekends. I was just so shocked by how many moms were awful cooks. But on the way, I learned about "country cooking" and what used to be called "soul food," and oh, my!! I grew up eating escargot but not knowing that mustard greens are every bit as close to heaven.

I'm quite shocked at the fact that my daughter - the pickiest eater in this house - LOVES the hell out of sushi. Just to encourage her to eat more of what she likes and keep a varied diet I've been buying it each time I go to the store. It's now a tradition for her and her dad to eat it on the weekend. So at least she likes trying new things.

My baby sister began eating ceviche and escargot with our dad when she was 2, and the rest of us teased her because we were dumb. So wrong about escargot, but I wouldn't try it until a date ordered it for me at a super-swank restaurant and I had no choice but to be "cool" and "sophisticated."

I still don't get the ceviche and sushi thing, though. It's very pretty, but....

My mom was a horrible cook. Like in an incomprehensible bad way. She once made peanut butter and canned pork. I've seen her burn water. Where it becomes incomprehensible is that I never cooked for myself (microwave dinners+eating out) because I thought it must be a herculean effort that requires the willpower of six men. I've been cooking for myself for the past year. Cooking isn't hard, she just made it look that way. When I started cooking for myself I became flabbergasted at how nasty and bad my mom's cooking truly was. And unlike some people it wasn't a matter of being short on resources as we were lower middle-class. Definitely not too poor to lack ingredients and not so wealthy as to have servants. She had a knack for languages though picking up Spanish, Italian, and Arabic by just hanging out with people.