How bad is your Mil's cooking?

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cooked roast meal for first time aged 56

my hubby loves his mums cooking. but i hate it. it started with being served pea and ham soup when i was 16. i hate ham and she knew it and i was too scared not to eat it. it went downhill from there. the meat on my plate was always the worst. griseley and yuk. i remember hubby lapping hisstew up and then going for mine when i pretended to be full and he spat it out. "it all came from the same pan" she said. liar. i knocked the sunday dinner visits on the head!

Well mine don't fare much better. We only every have sunday roasts, which is fine if you like your meat really really well done and soggy veg. Which I suppose could be tollerated, it's the chipped plates and cloudy glasses that really top it all. Bleugh. - I have been known to wash-up before dinner.

Well mine don't fare much better. We only every have sunday roasts, which is fine if you like your meat really really well done and soggy veg. Which I suppose could be tollerated, it's the chipped plates and cloudy glasses that really top it all. Bleugh. - I have been known to wash-up before dinner.

Ha ha -this is great.
My mil always cooks us "Chilli con Carne" (even while both of us went through a long veggie phase - told us to either get over it or just eat the beans and ricew bits!!)
She doesn?t use a packet or anything - just cheap beef mince, one tin of baked beans, tinned toms and Asda?s own curry powder !!! Yes, this is officially the onyl way to make chili con carne - topped with bread crumbs and put under the grill to brown if she is in a good mood...I kid you not.

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I've also never been invited for anything to eat in 7 years but more to do with the fact that she hates me rather than her cooking!

Once, when dh was still a student and she came over to visit with his grandad, she brought food with her for herself, dh's grandad, dh but not me, despite knowing I was going to be there! She has also been known to invite dh out for a meal and offer to pay for his food if he doesn't bring me! Obviously, dh never did that. This is the woman who also said she'd pay his car insurance if he agreed not to go on holiday with me...

Having seen all these stories maybe I should count myself lucky!

My MIL cooking isn't bad if you like everything out of the deep fat fryer. She used to be a cook in a school but over the years this has changed to being a chef

To be fair my mum's not too hot a cook either though. She has been known to take a jar of carbonnara sauce and a jar of curry sauce and mix it together - gross!

My MIL is a fantastic cook. She puts me to shame as I am not that good. She always cooks from fresh ingredients, never has processed or ready meals, always makes her own deserts and bread and everything.

Ax ex's mother always used to give me half portions, and offer everyone else seconds except me.
Not very subtle.....
(Like I actually wanted seconds???)

Beetroot in gelatine? Yuk - that's got to be on par with jellied eels!

My mils cooking is great if you can bring yourself to eat it. She's not v. good at washing up so you end up eating off dirty plates and cups, fortunately have managed not to eat there for years but the children still do so I feel a bit sorry for them when they go to stay. Also she sends cakes and biscuits which again taste great but come with hairs as an additional nutritional extra! Sorry if I've put anyone off their food.

FIL thinks he is great cook (used to cook in the Navy!!!), prepares all meals in the morning, to be re-heated in the evening for dinner (why? he is retired!).
His tour de force was to SOAK spaghetti for hours on end before cooking them (for far too long) so they all stuck nicely together and were revolting. Everything is cooked in loads of oil, and of course it's always the same oil. He once made scrambled eggs for dd that I didn't let her it, they were full of greasy bits of meat that had burnt in the fat. YUCK.
When MIL is allowed to cook, it's edible.....
Thankfully we live 3 hours away from them and that's perfect!!!

MIL isn't too bad sometimes (aside from the usual soggy veg) but she did a fab one not long ago. I am veggie, so I often offer to take stuff along for me. I phoned her before we were going over, to be told 'no no I have done something specially' Got there and she tried to serve up the potatos that had come off the top of a chicken casserole!! I am sorry to be childish, but I threw a bit of a paddy (we were going through one of our phases) and refused t touch it and cried. It was symptomatic of how she felt towrds me as in 8 yrs she had never done that!!

Personally I think I am a better cook, my mum is good, but does it 'by the book' and uses a recipe for EVERYTHING. I am a bit slapdash and quick

MIL good cook, though not adventurous, I use her recipe for stuffing the turkey at Christmas.

However my M is the standing joke in our family.

Though there are only the two of them at home, neither of which eats very much, she buys catering packs of everything! "It makes it cheaper." By the time she is a quarter of the way through it is stale or off!
In addition she always chooses the cheapest brands.

Everything cooked to death in a pressure cooker so that the flavours are amalgamated.

I just remember when I was small she used to go to Cordon Bleu lessons and produce wonderful food - where did that knowledge go and are we all destined to revert to type - argh!!!