To think brocolli should not be yellow?

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My beloved mother just can't cook veg. When she makes a Sunday roast it is gorgeous, but she always cooks the veg forever! She is getting better, she used to cook the meat, potatoes and veg in the pressure cooker for the same length of time, now they are all separate but still totally murdered! Why? What's wrong with al dente? surely sometimes it's nice to have some vitamins left in your greens when you eat them?

YABU broccoli should not be

great post about mammy cooking.boiled to fuck veg

you would have thought that she would have had a hint from the name...

greens

there's a reason why things like broccoli etc are referred to as greens and not yellows...

She does a good line in liver and bacon cooked for so long, the meat becomes almost a negative of itself! The liver becomes so dry it sucks the moisture from your mouth. and the bacon dissolves so you are only left with the fat! Bleurgh!

Ooh ooh, and her stew smells like someone farted on the saucepan!

warning - don't ever eat brocolli if it has turned yellow...wind x 10000

oh and dont eat yellow snow either

My MIL boils all the veg to oblivion, does the beef very well done, puts it all on the plates .... then puts the plates in the oven to keep warm while she does the washing up... then serves the resulting dried up mess.

It takes real skill to boil brocolli & peas to mush, then roast it until it has a crispy skin on the outside.

Do MILs go on a special course to learn this stuff?

broccoli should be vivid green & crunchy!

and roast potatoes should have the skin on mmm.

Sky.. Tell me about it!
Scottish... Thanks for the hint
sun... You know that, I know that, someone tell my mother!
Other disasters..
Solid gravy,
fantastic pasta, ruined by the bacon still having the rind on, hairs And all,
and her personal best, cowpuncher stew, made from the recipe in the radio times, beef, coffee and molasses!!! Even she didn't eat that one!

broccoli should be purple for the most vits

at murdered veg

When she used to use the pressure cooker, everything used to come out the same shade of yellowish grey, brocolli, carrots, peas, potatoes and meat! And it all tasted exactly the same!

We don't let MIL cook anymore. Too many cremated roasts with mushy cabbage....bleurgh.

Now we go to restaurants or eat take out. Or BBQ.

MIL cooking veg ahead of time over here. Why? It takes minutes at the end after everything else is ready surely. Result - grey mush.
She and FIL are also experts in serving up chicken with pink juices pouring out and the kind of runny scrambled egg that is scary.

YANBU

My MIL does this as well, and the kids hate it. I guess you can't really say anything though. She probably hates coming round mine for Sunday roast and having the veggies "undercooked"

my mum also cooks everything "well done". when Im at her house I take over the kitchen as my kids wont eat mushy vegs and cardboard meat.
she does the pressure cooker thing as well. and all her stews smell of old cleaning rag. bleurgh
(in her defense, she once got really bad food poisoning from undercooked fish)

...and if I cook she puts her plate in the microwave for 2 min to make sure everything is cooked "properly"

My MIL still uses a hostes trolley. She cooks the veg at about dawn, and puts it in there to keep warm until lunch time. She also cooks pasta for DAYS, until it is all swollen like the bits that end up in the sink. And once, she bought hugely expensive tuna steaks, cooked them until grey, and then put them in the flippin trolley to keep warm for about 20mins, while she gave the veg a bit longer! The fish tasted like corrugated carboard. Though it really was warm.

These days, we tend to take them out for lunch.

Just wondering...

what does she make of your cooking and going out for a meal where the food is done properly and nicely (by real/your standards, not hers!). Or if she watches food being cooked properly on tv?

And what does she say if anyone complains about the food?

Could you not give her a gift of a cookery course for her birthday/xmas etc one year? plenty of places around that do them now, some are unfortunately expensive but there are some that are very reasonable, my LEA adult education service do them, often one off days or half days to do a particular thing or a theme if xmas or easter are coming up... Am guessing that cookery books are probably a waste of time given that she has had plenty of years to refine her 'art' already!

Excellent backhanded gift for a MIL- a cookery course!
My in-laws bring food with them to our house on the pretext of helping. I am quite sure they tell everyone what an awful cook I am. Maybe I will be the one on the receiving end of a backhanded gift one day.

my nan used to say that all starchy foods need to be cooked for 20 min. Potatoes, rice, pasta

My mum used to put the Christmas dinner-Pork,potatoes,sprouts[!!!!!]and carrots on to cook at 9am Christmas morning.Then she would say,'Its lovely to get that done now I can relax and enjoy the day!'Needless to say we all thought it was just how it was meant to be-sprout soup anyone?

Makes me laugh when it takes all day to cook Xmas dinner. Turkey in, roast potatoes in later in same big tray, carrots in same, brocolli beans and peas in steamer, get pan to boil, put steamer on top, five or ten minutes! One big tray, one steamer and the gravy boat to wash up! And I don't even use aunt bessies! When I was a kid it took two people, ALL DAY!