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whats your mums or mil's cooking like

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codswallop · 09/11/2004 10:35

(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!

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Branster · 09/11/2004 13:02

My mum is not a brilliant cook but her food is OK and she's good at making cakes and roasts.
My MIL never seems to bother much: most of the stuff she serves is of a frozen variety, never saw her using fruit, her meat is always dry and vegetables are all soggy. And she never seems to offer much food either. very strange. Her best foods are the ready-made cakes she buys from the supermarket or farmer's markets!

Chandra · 09/11/2004 13:09

My MIL cooks wonderful, so wonderful I can't deny it even when we have such a bad relationship. The main problem is that she is always criticising our eating habits from what we eat to how much we eat (but then I'm a foot taller than her, how can she expect me to eat as much as she does?). Having said that she uses a 2 litre bottle of olive oil each week, so very mediterranean in style but still very oily.

motherinferior · 09/11/2004 13:11

My mother is a dauntingly fabulous Indian cook.

DP's mum ahem, not so great. But nice woman.

Chandra · 09/11/2004 13:13

PS. My mum is a professional processed food fixer. She can convince other mums that she cooks the most wonderful macaroni and cheese by adding some herbs to a Craft 'just add water' macaroni and cheesse. Her soups are legendary and no body seem to realise that they are Campbells soup with some personal 'extras'. ))) Well, she was a very busy mum working full time and studying full time...

enid · 09/11/2004 13:13

My mum is absolutely terrible. I think she used to be quite adventurous but now lives on junk food. My MIL is an excellent good English plain cook - fab roasts, proper puddings etc.

bakedpotato · 09/11/2004 13:16

(bundle, i can't say. i'm ashamed of myself. post-post guilt )

JuniperDewdrop · 09/11/2004 13:30

Mum's cooking is quite ordinary English food. Her boyfriend likes fry ups so they're on the menu a lot. I rarely eat there nowadays. She thinks I'm mega adventurous when I do spag bog lol and if I do something exotic/different she almost blows a gasket with excitement!!

MIL is getting on now but is a good cook and baker. She just tires very easily now bless her.

JuniperDewdrop · 09/11/2004 13:36

Mmmmm northerner your step MIL sounds fab! I bet you love having dinner at hers.

emmatmg · 09/11/2004 13:45

My mum's is lovely but some things are quite fatty. She'll use lard rather that cooking oil for example. She does the BEST roast spuds.

MIL on the other hand is awful. Everything is fatty and greasy and either burnt to a cinder or undercooked. She has no idea about food for children and everything is so salty that even I have trouble eating it.

I dislike the woman with a passion and I think i've just discovered another issue I have with her. She trying to poison us all!

Northerner · 09/11/2004 13:57

Juniper - yes she is fab! We eat at theirs alot actually and it's never any hassle to her at all. She truly is a domestic goddess. In all the years I ahve known her I have never known her to spend the day in her scruffs with her feet up reading mags or watching TV. NEVER.

JuniperDewdrop · 09/11/2004 14:01

Oh no northerner now I'm feeling really inadequate

Does she live in the north?? and if so can she deliver?

Burgoo · 09/04/2023 11:53

Resurrecting this thread in my despair!

MiL cooks appallingly and I have to go there for holidays. The portions are giant so I feel pressured to eat much more than I normally would. And everything is boiled in salt. Tonnes of salt. At one point I had to leave the mash because it was like eating mashed salt. I feel the need to smile and slog on because she is rather sensitive.

Deathraystare · 09/04/2023 18:46

Mine (dead now) as a young mum, went to evening classes and then later took a course of Chinese cooking as well. She was a very good cook. I was particularly pleased by her microwave sponge puds! So light. Her lemon meringue pie has not been beaten! She used less sugar so it wasn't tooth achingly sweet. Her cakes and scones were great too.

As kids we did not like the fatty bits of meat so even with stews she had to use beef mince! I did not like meat much at all really but would tolerate chicken so we had chicken pie/risotto/plait. But it was her flans/cakes/puds that were so lovely. On my birthday I never had a birthday cake. It was either pavlova or Delia's Creole Christmas cake with 4 lots of booze in it!!! Loved her vol au vents too and would nag her every Christmas to do some.

Deathraystare · 09/04/2023 18:51

@codswallop

Crikey! Even my dad learnt in later life. The rest of us were out somewhere and when we returned he triumphantly told us all he had fried an egg! Without oil...probably on the kitchen top looking at him!

I suggested he write a cookery book. He was always on hand when mum wanted the spuds mashed!!!

TragicMuse · 09/04/2023 19:00

My mum is a wonderful cook. Her grasp of flavours is brilliant, and always has been. She was cooking ragù, curries and all kinds of things in the early 70s, she's always been adventurous.

Less successful at baking though, it's not her love in the way that other cooking is.

My sister and I are pretty decent cooks too, she definitely gave us that interest.

juniperDewdrop · 09/04/2023 19:07

As far as Zombies go this one is up there 😂 ....2004!!

Theos · 09/04/2023 19:39

this thread is from 2004 you loons

lipstickwoman · 09/04/2023 21:20

Unsurprisingly MILs are almost all as bad at cooking as they are at being grandmas 🙄

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