Foo - Your mother's cooking

So, fess up. You dig it? Great? Horrendous? Post about it.

Nanay's cooking is a mixed bag.

1) garlic fried rice/fried rice anything - awesome
2) mom's eggs & breakfast food - bring a tear to your eye

other stuff, not so much. What about you?

Pot Roast....my mom makes one that is melt in your mouth good.
The rest....ehhh....I'll do the cooking, thanks.

My mom's cooking ROCKS!!! I love my mom and her cooking. She is an AWESOME cook. Like, she could easily cook in a 5 star restaurant cook

I dislike mom's chili. I make it better (dad even agreed once upon a time. not to mom, though).

Otherwise, she's a pretty good standard meat & potatoes cook.
I eat a little different- lighter, more variety. But some comfort food is always nice to go to mom's for.

A thought I had on Thanksgiving: what if your SO's cooking had been totally incompatible with your Thanksgiving Day expectations? For example, a couple of years ago my wife and I attended a T-Day meal with friends. They served NOTHING I liked--no turkey, no mashed potatoes, no stuffing, etc.

Clearly they were OK with those dishes. If I'd been dating the woman in that couple and she'd told me the menu....let's just say, it had better be True Love.

It's right there in between okay and pretty darned good.

My mother can cook quite well, or at least I like to think so. Basic southern food. Dad was in charge of Mexican food and the grill when I was a kid.

Much the same rules apply in casa de sharr. I man the grill, make the tacos and chili, etc. If it gets much beyond that, my wife steps in and takes over.

My mom is Mormon. She specializes in traditional Mormon faire. 'Nuff said.

My mom is Mormon. She specializes in traditional Mormon faire. 'Nuff said.

How is her rum cake?

My mom is Mormon. She specializes in traditional Mormon faire. 'Nuff said.

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Shadiyah, your Mom's Mormon. She's OK with your dancing?

/thread hjack/

S'ok. She bakes very well, however her main meal reportoire consists of probably 6 meals. Spaghetti (which she makes with tomato paste and water), meatloaf (that uses a bottle of ketchup and I burp all night), liver and onions, mac & cheese (a few slices of american cheese and a little milk over noodles), pot roast (that was good) and once in a while a beef roast that the baked till it was so dry that it flaked off and once in a while shake n bake... - oh yeah and a canned ham - which she nuclear blasted too (I mean it's cooked already) so that it was crisp.

So basically I never learned or had the want to cook at home --- till my ex-husband's mother - she was a great cook on big meals. When I'm with my Mom, I do all the cooking - and experimenting.

My mom is Mormon. She specializes in traditional Mormon faire. 'Nuff said.I'm not familiar- what's considered Mormon faire?

How is her rum cake?

I think she makes it out of Jello. Without Rum.


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Shadiyah, your Mom's Mormon. She's OK with your dancing?

/thread hjack/

Yes she is. We started dancing together and we still do a little bit to this day. :)

My mom is Mormon. She specializes in traditional Mormon faire. 'Nuff said.

Inquiry. Unfamiliar w/ traditional Mormon foodstuffs. Require clarification.

My ma's spaghetti sauce = not good, she put bay leaf in it.

I'm not familiar- what's considered Mormon faire?


Inquiry. Unfamiliar w/ traditional Mormon foodstuffs. Require clarification.

My ma's spaghetti sauce = not good, she put bay leaf in it.

Mostly lots of casseroles made with canned soup and tuna. She can make a good dish though, when she tries. :)

Huh. Sounds like Minnesota-style "hot dish".

Inquiry. Unfamiliar w/ traditional Mormon foodstuffs. Require clarification.

My ma's spaghetti sauce = not good, she put bay leaf in it.

Mom's was just Hunt's tomato paste and water. She used no salt in anything, there was no onions, peppers, etc in it. Just hamburger. It was pretty bland!

My mother is Thai. Everything she makes is good. :)
I think I know what Shadiya is talking about. Mormon food generally consists of roasts, bakes, casseroles and jello. :)

Mom's was just Hunt's tomato paste and water. She used no salt in anything, there was no onions, peppers, etc in it. Just hamburger. It was pretty bland!

Bland...makes your tastebuds cry.

Mom's was just Hunt's tomato paste and water. She used no salt in anything, there was no onions, peppers, etc in it. Just hamburger. It was pretty bland!

Ugh! My mom used to make spaghetti sauce like that except with a bit of garlic salt in it. I think cans her own now out of garden tomatoes, so its much better now.

My mom made horrible food when I was younger, but she has gotten much much better.

It's only recently that I began to realize that being a single income family with two hungry boys may have had a big impact on what she could afford to make us. Now that both of my parents work full time and they have no dependent children, she can afford much better/more exotic ingredients and they now go to much nicer restaurants that inspire her to try cooking those things at home.

My mother is Thai. Everything she makes is good. :)
I think I know what Shadiya is talking about. Mormon food generally consists of roasts, bakes, casseroles and jello. :)

LUCKY! ;)

Yeah, if you live in Utah and have lived or hung around in a Mormon family, you know what I'm talking about. We didn't have many roasts in my family growing up, but that seems to be her favorite Sunday dinner dish made in the crockpot now.

My mom made horrible food when I was younger, but she has gotten much much better.

It's only recently that I began to realize that being a single income family with two hungry boys may have had a big impact on what she could afford to make us. Now that both of my parents work full time and they have no dependent children, she can afford much better/more exotic ingredients and they now go to much nicer restaurants that inspire her to try cooking those things at home.

I think that was one of the problems with my family too. We were very poor when I was a teenager and I don't think she could afford much good food. Now, she has more time and money and she's more inspired with good food that she eats from restaurants.

My mom made horrible food when I was younger, but she has gotten much much better.

It's only recently that I began to realize that being a single income family with two hungry boys may have had a big impact on what she could afford to make us. Now that both of my parents work full time and they have no dependent children, she can afford much better/more exotic ingredients and they now go to much nicer restaurants that inspire her to try cooking those things at home.

My ex-husband grew up in a family of 5 boys and 1 girl - all the boys are big robust athletes who were either power builders, wrestling or football champs - so needless to say - they devoured everything - and his parents didn't have much so the ex said they ate A LOT of pasta ---- and she would make a kind of ham salad (I watched her - she made probably 2 gallons at one time!) out of bologna - which is also the meat the ex says, was their staple.

Mom (may she rest in peace), was 1st generation Italian. Just about everything she made was from scratch, and was so good it brought near-strangers to the door around suppertime.

She was a traditional mom in every sense of the word, and she loved it. So did we.

My mom can cook - and bake - really, really well. Mmmmm.... Homemade bread that used to find the neighbours "popping by". I swear they had a 6th sense for that.

She actually thought about cooking school when she was younger, but then got married & was busy taking care of us & the farm.

She never uses recipes either - and if she tries, she winds up changing most of it anyways.

Mostly lots of casseroles made with canned soup and tuna. She can make a good dish though, when she tries. :)
:lol: sounds a lot like midwestern lutheran food. "Hot dish and bars, you betcha"

I love my mom's cooking.
Mostly balkan, hungarian and bavarian kitchen.

I miss it. It's hard to stop by on the weekend for a meal when she's 4500 miles away :(

Mom (may she rest in peace), was 1st generation Italian. Just about everything she made was from scratch, and was so good it brought near-strangers to the door around suppertime.

She was a traditional mom in every sense of the word, and she loved it. So did we.

Again. LUCKY! ;)

:lol: sounds a lot like midwestern lutheran food. "Hot dish and bars, you betcha"

Hehe! Yeah, that's it without the bars. ;)

I love my mom's cooking.
Mostly balkan, hungarian and bavarian kitchen.

I miss it. It's hard to stop by on the weekend for a meal when she's 4500 miles away :(

Like what? Don't cop out. What's she cook that you like/dislike? Description.

Like what? Don't cop out. What's she cook that you like/dislike? Description.

Her pig roast with Knoedel and red cabbage. Excellent. All made from scratch of course.
Or Kalbsgeschnetzeltes with Spaetzle. Yummmio.
Also the homemade marmalade, especially the quince one, she sends me once in a while. To die for.
Or a beautiful goulash with spaetzle.

Damn, now my mouth is watering. :twitchy:

:lol: sounds a lot like midwestern lutheran food. "Hot dish and bars, you betcha"


Hah. These are my mother-in-law's people. They consider black pepper a spice and garlic is some sort of exotic ingredient. And they think that if you shred carrots and put it in jello, that counts as a salad.

Nice people, but the food....

Damn...google override.

Knoedel = dumplings

Kalbsgeschnetzeltes with Spaetzle = veal in sauce

Dude, your mom cooks that? Sounds serious. Seriously tasty...

Back when they offered Bank of America Awards for cooking and sewing to high school students, my Mom won them both. :)

My Mom also felt very strongly about us kids knowing how to cook, clean and do laundry before we set out on our own. My childhood was filled with cooking and baking, and although I don't do much of it now, I still enjoy it on occasion. My wife tells me I'm a better cook than her.

My Mom supplemented her income over the years baking wedding cakes, all on word-of-mouth referrals. The big difference was that not only did her cakes look great, they tasted even better. Not sure about you all, but most of the wedding cakes I've tasted other than my Mom's were crap.

Mom's Spanish rice and enchiladas--
heck all of her cooking is very good.
Empanadas, sopapillas all good.
Consistently good--never that superlative
quality of "never ever had better," but
good. Thanks ma.

Kaiju: did your mom ever make fideo? That's my favorite. I'm insisting she brings a big batch to Xmas. Mexican comfort food....

She doesn't do fideo to my knowledge--tamales are the traditional xmas food
round our house.
As of late I find sitting around working with sticky masa a good excuse to get
a couple of beers under my belt.

Fideo is good tho.

Woohoo! Just talked to my mom. She's going to bring tamales, beans, and fideo to Xmas Eve. Just like when I was a kid.

My mom's cooking is meh, like I said in the other thread. Consistently overcooked meats :notamused:

But she does great desserts! Her fruit salad, puto, kutsinta, ginataang halohalo and other kakanin are wonderful, plus she was the one who taught me the graham cracker tiramisu recipe that is always a hit (the secret is coffee and cinnamon in the cream).

I think my mom is a pretty good cook. Most of her dishes which I don't like are simply things I don't care for no matter who's cooking them. She is great with spaghetti and various noodle-based casserole dishes, can cook a turkey and make stuffing like nobody's business, and makes the only cornbread I truly love. Also, she is excellent at dessert items! They won't be all neat and tidy like those from the grocery store, but they always taste 100000x better. I have yet to find chocolate chip cookies that are even close to hers.

Now, all that being said, when it comes to breakfast food I prefer my dad's (or my own) cooking. Mom's not bad at that either, but my dad is darn good with bacon and eggs.

About the only thing I'm decent at is basic breakfast (bacon, eggs, toast, etc).

I loved just about everything my mom cooked except liver. She only served that when we were kids and it was probably a cheap way to feed a family of 10.

I grew up HATING spaghetti. My mother would pour a can of tomato soup into a pot of spaghetti noodles. It was enough to gag a maggot.

But she could cook when she wanted to.

To say my mom's rice, beans and chicken is freaking amazing is an understatement. She's a great cook; hardly anything comes out wrong.

*Her* mom's cooking, OTOH, is okay...

My grandmother was an unhappy miserable person, but a great cook my mom says. Because she was so miserable she never taught my mom how to cook, so my mom mostly picked up packages at the grocery store and figured out cooking on her own when I was growing up. My mom loves shake n' bake chicken, Hamburger Helper lasagna, and some brand of boil in the bag salisbury steak and gravy that no one sells anymore.

Fortunately she was also fond of cutting out recipes from the newspaper, collecting recipe cards from magazines and watching cooking shows because when I was in school she started making more interesting fare like homemade lasagna, chicken and broccoli stir fry, roast chicken with stuffing, pot roast, lemon chicken with olives (a favourite) and cabbage rolls. I mean, they are pretty standard fare for a lot of people but she never ate them growing up in Portugal or Brazil. I always thought it was strange that the Portuguese food we ate we usually had at her friends' homes. She did make beef and rice with collard greens in the same way as it was made in Brazil (we went to Brazil when I was 16 and we ate this meal quite frequently. Think thin quick fry steak with lots of garlic, white rice sauteed with garlic then simmered, and collard greens sauteed with garlic. It's a good thing we liked garlic in my family.

My mom recently had her 80th birthday, and she's still an awesome cook. When I think of her cooking, I think of barbecue brisket, potato salad, and raisin cobbler.

My mom made horrible food when I was younger, but she has gotten much much better.

It's only recently that I began to realize that being a single income family with two hungry boys may have had a big impact on what she could afford to make us. Now that both of my parents work full time and they have no dependent children, she can afford much better/more exotic ingredients and they now go to much nicer restaurants that inspire her to try cooking those things at home.

I hear you make excellent pies. Apparently you have a fan here on BF, and I'm supposed to coerce you into making one and I'll send it her way. :p

I hear you make excellent pies. Apparently you have a fan here on BF, and I'm supposed to coerce you into making one and I'll send it her way. :p

We can do this. Does she have a specific request?

my mom has turned lazy and i can now outcook her

We can do this. Does she have a specific request?

Lemme check. :D