your mum is the best cook you know.

[Herr Lipp]

discuss.

for me it is a yes. partially because I'm conditioned to her style, but mostly because she knows what she's doing in the kitchen (her mum taught her how to cook yada yada tradition and shit).

[The Tourist]

I'd strongly disagree!
My dad does almost all the cooking and it's mostly all very tasty food. My mum will make the occasional dish, such as a lasagne/bolognaise/risotto etc type thing. It's not that she's a bad cook, it's just that she dislikes cooking and my dad's happy to cook. I think I cook dinner for my mum more than she cooks for me. In fact just last night she asked me to cook because my dad was away. Oh well, I guess she did spend years cooking all of our food when we were small. Though more and more of that became microwave/oven ready meals from the age of 8 or so.

[Smith Comma John]

Both of my parents are amazing cooks. Pretty much the only reason I look forward to winter/spring/summer breaks is that I get to go home and eat real food instead of whatever crap I eat at uni. D: My mom cannot bake cookies for some reason though, she always burns them. Always.

[Intern Kate]

my dad's a great cook. he used to be a chef at a Mexican restaurant. he's particularly skilled in Italian though. ancient recipes through ancestors, etc. sometimes he talks of opening his own place but i don't know if he'll get around to it in reality. i'm a decent cook but don't have the creative intuition he does.

[Jackal]

My mother-in-law is the best cook I know.

[rogaine]

my parents are both great cooks but my grandma was definitely the best cook i knew. mmm. she made such good everything.

[rogaine]

my dad's a great cook. he used to be a chef at a Mexican restaurant. he's particularly skilled in Italian though. ancient recipes through ancestors, etc. sometimes he talks of opening his own place but i don't know if he'll get around to it in reality. i'm a decent cook but don't have the creative intuition he does.

can i hang out with your dad?

[Intern Kate]

totally! sometimes we dedicate a day to dickin' around in the kitchen cooking things and getting drunk. we always make a crapload of food that we can't eat so we have leftovers for a week.

[Static Split Screen]

My mom's pretty good, but she's so busy she rarely cooks, and she only cooks the same things for dinner. Craig's parents make good food, and his brother's a chef so he makes really good food.

[Nak Nak]

discuss.

for me it is a yes. partially because I'm conditioned to her style, but mostly because she knows what she's doing in the kitchen (her mum taught her how to cook yada yada tradition and shit).

No, my brother owns a restaurant.

[Static Split Screen]

I miss david's deep-fried halloumi. i didn't get a chance to go there in winter. :(

[Herr Lipp]

No, my brother owns a restaurant.

A chinese take-away isn't a restaurant :-p

j/k

fine you bunch of fucks. my mum is the best cook evor tho fu sho'.

[cigar store indian]

My mom is a great cook, but cooks chicken a different way every night. She never grows bored of it the way i never get tired of cheese sang's. :darn:
But yeah, my dad is terrible at it. He learned just a year ago how to make scrambled eggs. I don't know how i even got them down. i think there were shells in it and they were burnt in places and runny in others. I had to eat it though, he was so excited and proud. He also went out and got my sunglasses prescriptionized and said there would be more $ for me in his will. HAH

[Peter]

I very strongly disagree. While my mom's food arouses memories of my childhood and growing up, it's not incredibly wonderful stuff. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's not great. There are many cooks that I've worked with in the past that are MUCH better cooks than my mom!

[kendra]

My mom is a wonderful cook WHEN SHE WANTS TO BE. Which is usually only on the holidays. She's great at lasagna and elaborate cakes.

My best friend's mom on the other hand...damn, that woman can cook. :drool:

[gangsta puffin]

my mom makes good "home food," but i venture to argue that im a better cook than she is.

[Herr Lipp]

you wait till I tell her that :O

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

My mother has barely cooked in her life. I remember her giving me dinner once when my Dad was away that leads me to say resolutley "no".

[gangsta puffin]

you wait till I tell her that :O

oh she'd probably agree!
i made my parents chicken saltimbocca (which is pretty easy) for their anniversary and you would have thought it was fine cuisine, by their reaction. i was like "c'mon guys, this is overkill... i'm glad you like it but you don't have to over exaggerate"
"no no really, i'm not just sayin, it's REALLY REALLY good, i can't believe you made this" etc

sometimes i wish i did go to culinary school.

[gangsta puffin]

My mother has barely cooked in her life. I remember her giving me dinner once when my Dad was away that leads me to say resolutley "no".

your daddy makes good food though!

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

your daddy makes good food though!

He sure does.

I like your mom's cooking.

[Herr Lipp]

cookery and chefery seems to be one of the hardest industries to get into in the world. you would probably end up working in some little chef on Junction 5 of the M25 fighting the urge not to slit your wrists with the carving knife. Two of my friends did a college course and both do completely other things now.

[wasp in a jar]

both my parents are/were amazing cooks - my dad just had an absolute passion for food and became seriously good just through persistence and a desire to try anything once. my mum did a cordon bleu cookery course and is also very good, though she cares less for actually cooking and the fun it can entail than my dad did.

i'd say i'm probably the best cook in the family now. i learnt most of the stuff i know from my dad, except how to make pastry, which i learned from my mum and how to boil an egg, which i never learned. oh well, i hate boiled eggs anyway.

[ramblingrose]

My mum is an adequate cook. Much as I generally dislike cooking I am pretty good at it, and I think my mum would concede I'm better than her, though she doesn't really care for it either. I have to say that her veggie cooking is excellent, though she hasn't done it since 1995 when I stopped having a vegan boyfriend. We joined forces on the Christmas dinner this year and it was probably the best one we've ever had, my mum can't do gravy but i have my late nanna's golden touch with it, ditto baking which my ma just can't do. She'd have me in a pastry-off any day though, her pastry is magnifique, and both my parents make amazing mashed potato, i just can't get it as good (though I am known as the house mash expert).She likes food a lot though, I'm not much of a foodie. My dad's only got a limited repetoire but the things he makes are jolly nice. Generally my male friends (and my dad) seem to enjoy cooking more than the ladies, but it doesn't necessarily reflect in the quality of the finished product. The chaps are handy round t'kitchen though. The best cook I know is Ruth's sister, but she's a prize-winning chef so that's cheating.
I bet Fraser's mum is a good cook though, I still dream about the Yorkshire puddings of an ex's mum (please enjoy innuendo here)

[Herr Lipp]

my mum makes gangster mash, with the right combination of milk and butter. she's just a traditional cook, nothing fancy pants really, she just has that feminine ability to have about 5 things going at once and them all to finish at round about the same time. I couldn't do that.

grania: I have never boiled a satisfactory egg :( I dont like hard boiled ones (you need soldiers blatantly!) and when I do the 3 minute rule they come out with all the white stuff aswell as the yolk still runny. nice, but you want something of substance to eat not just goo.

[wasp in a jar]

how to boil an egg (http://www.deliaonline.com/cookery-school/how-to/how-to-boil-an-egg,3,AR.html)

hard boiled eggs are only good if you want an egg mayonnaise sandwich. my sister swears by the above link/method. sadly, i am the only person i know that manages to mess up boiling an egg.

[Cheryl K]

My mom is an ok cook, assuming you like stuff prepared from a box and vegetables from a can.

And my dad's idea of cooking involves driving to Burger King.

[vaya con dios]

my mom's a pretty good cook...

my grandmother...was an AWESOME cook

[Mary Alice]

My grandmother was the best cook EVER. I miss her southern food (yummy pot roast and chicken and dumplings and etc. etc....) and her greek food (chicken with egg-lemon sauce, moussaka, leg of lamb with orzo-pasta-with-veggies she called manestra, stuffed bell peppers with rice and beef or with ham and cheese, whatever...yummy baked zucchini)

she made this salmon with a white wine and sour cream sauce, pork chops with a mustard sauce

and the simple things I miss like her carrot-pole bean-tomato soup, or her stewed apples-raisins-cranberry thing she made. She was always big on fresh fruits and vegetables and everything she cooked just made me feel good and healthy (she didn't have me and my mom's sweet tooth and the one thing she DIDN'T cook was sweets...so mom and I always bought out the local bakery...) and she was the type that would go to the famers market and look and all the fruit and vegetables and pick the best one etc. And fresh lemon juice on everything...:) we knew as kids to look for lemon seeds in everything just in case.

Thinking of the food she used to cook all the time makes me sad and brings back so many memories. I miss my YiaYia y'all :( :( :(

The person who's carrying on the torch of her cooking is my brother. He is going to get YiaYia's pot that she made the pot roast in because Tommy swears it makes it taste better. He kept trying to make her pot roast and he finally got the closest to it being like hers when she was in the hospital. He cooked and cooked when we were in Pensacola and she was in the hospital, gave him something else to think about anyways, and he tried making pot roast in HER pot for the first time. We saved her a bit for when she got back so that she could taste it - one of the last things she ate. My brother makes great lasagna and chicken quesedillas and chicken divan, too.

My mom's an OK cook. She makes YUMMY mashed potatoes. I challenge Fraser that my mom's mashed potatoes are better than your mom's! HA! :P. I always have that at thanksgiving more than anything else. All though my mom also makes excellent cornbread stuffing at thanksgiving, but I usually fill up on the mashed potatoes!

I would be an OK cook if I tried and practiced, and I will, it's a goal, but as of now I am the worst cook in the family. I can make good spaghetti sauce! And I am good with eggs...I can make yummy omelettes! And that's really...ummmm...'bout it? Ummm sandwiches...Tuna melts anyone :D I'm good at those...but really I'm pretty damn hopeless in the kitchen and I need to learn.

[Herr Lipp]

that would be an excellent competition. my mothers celtic versus your's redneck skills :) im sure she's not a redneck, i just like the word!

I sometimes get bored of potatoes though. I have them in some form or another probably about 5 times a week. I know it's the staple carb of this country but they get a bit tiresome. I suppose that's why they invented so many things to do with them, chips(fries), roast, boiled, jacket, mashed, new potatoes, hash browns and toppings like on shepherds pie. italians probably feel the same with pasta.

[i]

taters! boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

[ramblingrose]

or up the exhaust of an enemy!

[Herr Lipp]

potatoes are efficacious in that capacity, trust.

[vaya con dios]

taters! boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

[Static Split Screen]

I find potatoes quite boring. Sweet potatoes forever!

[Crystal]

My mother is a good cook that doesn't cook very much. She used to cook for me when I was much younger but once she realized that I actually liked doing it, the job fell to me. Actually the entire household cooks but I do 80% of it now including holiday dinners. My mother's greatest gift is speed, which I lack. It can take me all day to chop vegetables while it will take her 20 min and she does it without using a cutting board.

Her fried catfish,chicken and okra are tops. My stepfather is really good with pork chops(never dry) and chicken tortellini.

My grandmother and great aunts are the masters though, food is how they show love so that is all they do. They don't do anything fancy, although I am noticing that southern dishes have started to go up in price at restaurants because it's been yuppiefied. So maybe it is fancy now. Kind of funny to watch people freak out over $15 collard greens.;)

[Kelly Kapowski]

i love my mom's cooking! she's so good at making all sorts of food, but her comfort food is my fav : ( we have thanksgiving meals like every day.

But i was thinking about my dad's cooking and realized the only things i think he's ever made me has been a toasted bagel and carrot juice, the latter being amazingly good! otherwise we just get pizzas D:

my sister and her husband are great cooks and make really awesome food, a lot of recipes which they steal from their friend who owns a great fusion restaurant. So my mom and i are spoiled by them b/c they always invite us over for food :D

[Intern Kate]

yeah! your sis and her husband are absolutely amazing cooks in my opinion. and your mum made the best grilled cheese i've had in my whole life.

Sara's (my Italian flatmate) mother stayed with us while visiting and fixed several amazing meals from scratch. i'd be crap at trying to describe them with all the Italian. aka i'm lazy. i made a cheesecake from scratch in honor of her arrival and was proud because she loved it and asked for the recipe. (lol, i got it offline.) i probs gained 5 lbs. this week.

[Lily]

My Grandma has it going on...pot roasts, sour cream noodles(dough filled with sour cream and baked...sounds simple, but I can't do it for the life of me) and all sorts of other german classics (from back when, because they all consist of dough and potatoes...staples?)

My mom is a great cook too! From thanksgiving type meals to chinese dishes, she is awesome.

She made these carrots once that were like, round, like cheesy poofs (genetically shrunken or something like that) and she boiled them in orange juice and made a honey orange sauce to p ut on them and I almost died. right there.

OH MAN. But I am also a great and far more adventurous cook - I put anything in with anything and somehow it turns out great. I am the "we need to go shopping there's nothing in the house but I'll throw stuff together...." kind of cook.

[FLIPPER SNOOZE]

me mums the best cook around. she has the seasoning down, and that seems harder and harder for most people to master. my father bbq's all the time so he has that side covered. even when he is not hoem due to his two weeks home, two weeks away working situation, my mom handles the meals with finesse and perfection. there is not a day that i go hungry in my house because i don't like whats being served. it may have something to do with my lack of abhorrence for basically any food at all, but the ability to prepare a meal certainly helps. i love my parents and their awesome cooking skills. too great

my only worry is that when i go to universiy i'll be cut off from the heaven that is my home-cooked food... damn shame, damn shame.

[Barbarian Love Elephant]

my mother cannot cook,i'm unsure if she is lazy or just bad. She attempts to cook but it is usually under cooked and not one dish of hers would stand out in my memory as being amazing. She is a lovely lady just a dire cook now my father he is a fantastic cook. His problem however is he has no idea of timing so you will get your food bit by bit over the course of two hours.

[Suede]

lol

[Static Split Screen]

my mom's stuff is ok, but she just cooks the same thing over and over. craig's parents are great cooks.

Most of all i prefer just cooking for myself. i can know what's going into it and adjust things to my taste without worrying about anyone else's. I like cooking for Craig, too.