How bad is your Mil's cooking?

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processed runbish

cooked roast meal for first time aged 56

the heart is willing but the skills arent there

she attempts really nice things and is lovely but its always awful

Ok and anyone swho smugly says htat it is good is banishe d to under the bridge as we have to suffer Knorr pasta n sauce

Ok and anyone swho smugly says htat it is good is banishe d to under the bridge as we have to suffer Knorr pasta n sauce

oh and my MIls veggies are done on xmas eve for xsmas day

My mil cooks her veggies in the microwave about 4 hours before rest of food ready and then serves them up floppy, cold and half cooked

Absolute c*

Overcooked veggies - more or less mashed
Everything is fried (in a disgusting filthy fat fryer - YUCK!!!)

At least mine shops in Waitrose so occasionally get nice things pre made. Her saving grace.

She spends loads of money at the farm shop on lovely meat and then leaves it in the oven for 7 hours

wish mine would do even that!

only co op in her one horse town

Yeah but tastes worse that coop meat once she has had her mitts on it

Her version of gravy is water with an oxo cube in it. Bleagh

My MIL's cooking is quite good actually if only she could leave the frigging guram masala out of everything. Everything she cooks has a curry theme to it. She brought some dips to our house one day and instead of some nice sour cream or mexian style they were "Jalfrezi, Korma, Tikka and Madras" !!! When they come for dinner I usually serve something pasta-ish with fish instead of the usual meat!!!

Mine spends a fortune on food from M & S - really nice but a bit irritating to always be eating even sized peeled carrots and sticks of cheese individually wrapped - the price you pay for laziness!

Cabbage in thick white sauce (cabbage already rejected the previous day and so recycled)

Curried eggs (with no curry, and so like above but with previously rejected hard boiled eggs)

An egg free, cheese free quiche. (so random previously rejected veggies in a thick white sauce with pastry)

Beetroot in gelatine.

She buys the cheapest stuff and eeks it out to feed the most people. If she didn't grow her own veggies they would have died of malnutrition by now.

lol sexgoddess
now my sil must have a fab time with my mum sho cook likes mad when she comes over.

sil is keen cook too though

Absolutely bl**dy awful - it's a standing joke with me and my dh. Prime examples are cold (cooked the previous day and kept in fridge) mince with salad and boiled steak with cold spaghetti.
Also, she definitely goes for price over quality, as in Aldi or Lidl special offer food and never throws anything out, as in Weetabix with a best buy date of about five years ago.

BOILED STEAK???? Tabitha you win. That is appalling!

mince, mince or mince, maybe stew in a while - reasonably done but very monotonous. No 'foreign muck' - her words for pasta dishes and anything but meat & 2 veg.

MIL doesn't cook pasta because "she doesn't know how". Tried rice a few times, but didn't like it.

But actually, she's very good at things she does know how to do (potatoes, meat, pies, puddings... veggies a tad overdone but not bad). We stuff ourselves when we go visit her.

it isn't too bad....
however!

she ALWAYS always always cooks dinner in the afternoon, leaves it all in the pans (including veg etc) then reheats it at teatime.

Always

my ex mil made me a "stew" (and i use the term loosely) once....watery gravy...soya mince (bluurgh) and dumplings...nothing else. nasty.

Mine is a FAB cook but unfortunately lives thousands of miles aaway so I havent had the pleaseure for years.

Mine (aged 80) makes fabulous chip-pan chips but everything else is rubbish. (She thinks the longer you cook it the better it is and the only veg she knows is carrots and they only come in tins. Awww.)

my mils cooking is great its just my fil does a lot of the cooking on sundays and he is bad way to much salt its getting to the point where i have to say without seeming rude that i like to taste the food and not the salt

The day we were served a stir fry which MIL had boiled was the last time we ate a meal at her house. MIL's cookery skills mean dh thinks I'm a marvellous cook when I'm not.