whats your mums or mil's cooking like

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(we have had this thread abefore but i cant find it)
tell me the worst thing oyu have to eat at the home of either of the above.
MY mIl hides all her pasta 'n sauce when I got here and she knows I will diappove of her hideous eating habits

she cannot fry an egg
can you imagine?

My MUm is fab though!

My very lovely mummy has arthritis and tons of grandkids (now at 13) so always has easy to cook food that appeals to them. One day I went round and she was "cooking" all the left over potato products she had and we ate 3 potato waffles, left over smily faces, about 10 oven chips and some dinosaur type thing.
i felt about two stone heavier and had very dry mouth after that...

fair enough then is she has mobility probs!
what bout your mil?

MIL cooks basic food very well (meat and two veg type meals, pasta is exotic) and my kids love it. Her gravy is woeful though. My mum before she dies was a similar type of cook but with much better gravy .

died not dies

Am single parent whose Mother Out Law doesnt really like me so keeps out of my way..I think hell would freeze over before she would cook for me

My mum (when she was alive) was typical standard English stuff (with a bit of Irish thrown in).

MIL = curried everything!!!!! some may remember the curry ketchup they left us before going back to spain.

my MIL has never cooked for me in five years, will not do Christmas as she feels she has done her time and now its up to everyone else!! So we go to my parents, my mum is a great cook, but my dad is Fabulous and cooks really good chillis, soups, curries, pasta, he really is great and now I am hungry

My mu is so much better than MIL but then MIL admits that she can't cook!!!!

My mother is a terrible cook! All meals at her house consisted of everything being shoved in a big bown full of water and vegetables and cooked to within an inch of its life in the oven. Meat, mince, you name it, it all got boiled up in the oven. It's no wonder I'm vegetarian ... .

Her idea of a vegetarian meal is meat, potatoes and three veg - without the meat. The potatoes are generally OK, the veg are usually canned (and also cooked in the oven - the whole can gets shoved in with the lid taken off). My dad grows fresh veg, which she will boil, but generally to within an inch of its life (the potatoes for tea are generally cooking at about 3pm).

My dad is now retired - and does all the cooking these days!

My MIL makes fab chip-pan chips but despite having been a school meals cook (or perhaps because of...) is rubbish at everything else. All veg come in tins at her house and she once presented a member of my family with a raw chicken leg she had bought at M&S and assumed was a cooked one

Both are good TBH, it is my dad that does most of the cooking at my parent's house nowadays though. And he is good too.

My mum is a terrible cook and she's allergic to cooking things before their use by dates, her dad is the same. i have found tins of food in his cupboard from before the war. honestly.

salty!
Soggy veg.
Dear mum always buys veg that are about to expire at 3pm on market day (sigh, I know they are cheap, but yeuk if you try to use them 3 days later!!)

What I cannot understand though is why she watches Ready Steady Cook with such interest, yet always cooks the same (salty and soggy) stuff!!

Oh mum, I still love you though......

My mother in law once cooked dinner at my house. It was sausages and mash. She put the sausages on the grill, burnt one side of them and then didn't turn them over so the other side was practically raw. We were also having friend onions and she burnt them practically to a crisp as well they were like little bits of charcoal, yuck. I remember when I'd first met Dh I had dinner at their house and the veg was like a brick. I think I would have preferred it to have been boiled to within an inch of it's life.

My mum didn't really cook very much. She worked full time so my grandad used to give us our dinner after school then give my mum dinner when she got home from work. And at weekends we would go to My grandads for Sunday dinner. He was a really good cook.

ooh, my favourite subject. i could post and post about MIL's cooking.

at inlaws, they snack all day. little bowls of chocs, nuts and crackers. their dinner plates are the size of drinks coasters and the portions are fit only for borrowers -- just as well, really. she makes loads of fuss about how much she has to do, but whenver we're there, it's all readymade roastpotatoes from M&S, bought quiche, presliced frozen green beans etc cooked for hours.

she does plan meals like military ops. remember once having breakfast at around 9am while MIL was loading brussels sprouts/apple charlotte (just bits of old baguette sliced on top of some apple sauce) into the
hostess trolley for lunch.

because of hunger pangs, i've learned (esp when PG) to bring my own supplies of shortbread and cheesestraws for guzzling at bedtime. remember visiting inlaws when 7 months pg. had tiny bits of chicken for supper. there were 2 pieces left for seconds. MIL offered them to her husband, and her son! No one thought of me, as huge as a horse and twice as hungry.

whenever inlaws visit, MIL always ALWAYS says, in a tone that i know is somehow disapproving, 'Well, this looks very clever.' She says it about tomato salads, lasagne and stews. FIL loves the food at our house, you can see it in his eyes.

My dad & step-mum never cook. All take-aways, restaurants, sarnies, bowls of cereal... They keep porcelin ornaments on the hob.

My mom: was a pretty poor cook. She used 2 make a hideous watery stew out of leftovers; she stopped cooking 4 the family when i was 8 - we each just made our own (usually sarnies) after that.

My mum's fantastic. MIL loves ready meals, bisto and thinks low fat is the way forward.

Are you ready for this.....All vegetarians cover your eyes.....SPAM ! yes thats right, spam, they eat it for breakfast dinner and tea, fried, grilled, baked. I dont think that they ever touch fruits or veg its chips chips chips. and spam.
MIL does something completely disgusting with her gravey, it consists of cooked carcass juices poured into a granual mix and warmed through.
We have had a few raised eyebrows in the feeding of Ds department as i ALWAYS send my own food for him if ever he goes with DH at a meal time. mmmmmmmmmspam

My Mum is a really good cook when she puts her mind to it!! Dad is great too and makes his own chilli and curries from scratch.

MIL is crap - can't boil an egg. She does cook but it's rubbish. She came to us once and couldn't even warm a pan of beans for the kids! You know when it starts bubbling but it's actually still cold?! She just poured it out onto their plates and ds1 said 'eew, these are cold' - I could tell she was mortified!! She is bloody hopeless.

WWB - can't believe the tinned veg in the oven, IN THE TIN!!! LOL!! Bleurgh - how gross is tinned veg !

Meant to say, when I say MIL does cook - I mean ready made things like pie, with a bit of veg. No casseroles, chilli, lasagne or anything like that!!!

My mum is a fantastic cook and does really good food, she's also very good at fruit pies, cakes and scones.

My MIL unfortunately is not, the other day I made one of delias apple crumbles, which really is scrummy so she asked me for the recipe, great! Well we went round one afternoon and had her version of delias apple crumbles ie made with soya marg and no sugar (to make it healthy!!) on a bed of half cooked apples. I was completely mortified when she told everyone that I gave her the recipe.

This is a funny thread.

My in laws drive me crazy generally but their attitude to food is very bizarre. They live a good distance away from us in a beautiful part of the country in a lovely house with lots of space and acres of land but we would NEVER stay over... they are simply too crazy. Dh and I find this very sad for our ds. So, getting to the point we can be there for 7 hours and only get offered one cup of tea! They will rarely eat with us (choosing to eat hours later after we have left ? Which makes me feel very uncomfortable.) And despite having a beautiful big dinning room insist that we all eat our food on our laps in the living room.
MIL lives off packet soups, crisps and hot chocolate so I fear finds providing a meal a terrible challenge. FIL cooks his own meals and I think he lives off fry ups. I am embarressed to say I've had to double check that what they are feeding us is veggie as it is usually meat substitute fried and tastes too much like meat imo. I don't think PILs have any concept of fruit & veg.

My mother is a wonderful cook. We were brought up on the standard 70's stuff esp fish fingers, fray bentos(?) pies, spnge flans and angel delight but she always enjoyed making bread, cakes, etc... Now she has broadened her tastes and cooking habits and is a very good cook but we rarely eat together because of family politics

My Mum is not a great cook. I always ate fairly well and always a hot meal but east stuff like roasts, or chops or sauasage and chips. Never pasta or rice. And she never once baked a cake.

My Mil does a mean Sunday roast, everyhing else is bog standard. She uses far to much slat and pepper and she still fries in lard!

My Step MIL is an amazing cook. she makes everything from fresh, never had a ready meal in her life. She has dinner parties all the time nad is equally good at deserts. She is one of those women who can throw together a wholesome meal from her store cupboard without really thinking about it. I adore her fish pie.

bakedpotato, they sound fabulous
(where are they from??)