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Post by leannec on Aug 22, 2014 12:17:31 GMT
MIL is a great cook and I'm pretty good ... dh never compares us ... smart man There are a couple of dishes that she makes that I have learned to make for him ...
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Post by SabrinaM on Aug 22, 2014 12:21:13 GMT
I'm a much better cook!
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Aug 22, 2014 12:30:21 GMT
I'm not sure what my husband would say, but IMO I am a better cook than my mil. She seems to have only a few dishes that she makes while I like variety. She is better at making things without a recipe, though. She doesn't bake. I don't like most of the dishes she makes, but DH remembers them fondly. He doesn't request them, though.
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Post by akathy on Aug 22, 2014 12:32:27 GMT
I was a better cook than my MIL. Not when I first got married but later I definitely was. I used many different seasonings whereas she used few. It's funny because all the kids in DH's family raved about her food except DH. I cooked a much wider variety of foods than she did too.
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Post by jmurray on Aug 22, 2014 12:37:52 GMT
DH says he prefers my cooking, but I think his mother bakes better than me. I kick her butt in every other type of cooking though, so it's probably 50/50.
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Post by mamanay on Aug 22, 2014 12:48:43 GMT
I think we both are about equal. We both have different styles and tastes. She is all about the butter and salt, where as I am not. I am more about healthy good for you food. And she is like aren't you putting butter on that? And as she has aged her taste buds must be going, because things that were once ok are now WAY to salty, and I like salt. At first I thought it was a little heavy handed accident, but it continues to happen.
My fil also cooks and he is a want to be tv chef. We have really different tastes. And if he is in charge of cooking the meat, there is a 70% chance that I will not like it as he will have soaked it, smoked it, or I don't know, but I usually will not like whatever flavoring thing he did.
It's really strange cause when my kids were little we used to eat dinner there once a week, and it was good and I liked most things they cooked. Now if we are eating there, I snack/eat before hand, so I can just pick at dinner.
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Post by gloryjoy on Aug 22, 2014 12:58:01 GMT
I cook better than his mother.
Except pie, I can't make a pie to save my life. Oh I can buy the pre-made pastry and make a pie, but if I had to make one from scratch I'd be in trouble.
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Post by kimpea on Aug 22, 2014 12:59:20 GMT
My MIL was a phenomenal cook and baker. Almost everything she made came from her garden or a local farm. She was organic, farm to table before that was even a thing. I'm a good cook, I just cook differently than she did. I make spicier food and try to make a lot of ethnic dishes because that's what we enjoy. Dh has never compared us or asked me to make anything she did, and I appreciate it. It would drive me crazy if he did.
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 22, 2014 12:59:41 GMT
Oh hell no. BUT, she refuses to learn to cook for his special medically required diet. I swear she tried to kill him at Christmas. I offered to host and cook, but she insisted. He was sick as a dog all Christmas Day. My cooking is healthier and won't kill him
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Post by bdawnb on Aug 22, 2014 13:20:37 GMT
My mother-in-law is a traditional home style cook, but not much variety and she wayyyy over salts her meat, I cannot eat it. His family raves over it. But it's what they were raised on. I cook with much more variety and seasonings. My desserts are much better. Much.
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Post by shevy on Aug 22, 2014 13:22:40 GMT
I didn't get to meet his mom, because she died. But I have her cookbooks and DH sends me recipes that he remembers her making. So I make them for him and we talk about his mom and the things that she did and both of us are happy.
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Post by sunshinestate on Aug 22, 2014 13:23:50 GMT
I'm a better cook than my MIL. She doesn't have the patience for it.
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Post by Pahina722 on Aug 22, 2014 13:26:08 GMT
I'm sure that MIL must have cooked at some point, but I've yet to see much evidence (and we've been married 13 years). We eat at his parents fairly frequently, but the main dish is always some form of grilled protein that FIL Has done on the grill. Don't get me started on what it has taken to get him to understand that when I say "rare," I actually mean red in the middle, not barely grayish pink. MIL's contribution is a salad, microwaved corn on the cob, plain green beans cooked until mush, baked potatoes . . . Nothing that requires skill.
I got the clue that I was the better cook our first Thanksgiving when my contribution to the meal was to be a side vegetable. I decided on broccoli, rice, and cheese. You would have thought that it was four-star fare based on the family's reaction. And I'm always asked to make the dessert since I actually MAKE the dessert instead of picking it up frozen at the grocery store. Since I grew up with a mother and grandmother who are/were fantastic, made from scratch cooks and bakers, his mom's cooking took some getting used to. Luckily, DH taught himself to cook, perhaps in reaction against his mother's cooking, and we both love to experiment with new recipes.
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Post by Lissy007 on Aug 22, 2014 13:45:14 GMT
better, much better!
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Post by Jili on Aug 22, 2014 13:51:26 GMT
I am by far a better cook. I'll leave it at that!
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Post by redayh on Aug 22, 2014 13:54:07 GMT
He thinks so. I don't, I think her food is gross.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 14:06:23 GMT
I am a better cook according to my DH. His mother would water down everything! If she opened a can of soup and it called for water she would double the amount,. She watered down ketchup, mustard, added water to milk, salad dressings, ready made spaghetti sauce. If she was supposed to add milk to something she would add water instead. However, I have never been able to successfully make the one thing that DH said she made well and that is something called City Chicken.
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Post by sisterbdsq on Aug 22, 2014 14:09:19 GMT
She calls opening cans and boxes, "cooking". His mother is a terrible cook. As is my step mother. My dad taught himself to cook, in his words, "in self defense" after he started dating her. Coming from MY mother, who rules the kitchen, the poor man was bewildered. I am a very accomplished cook. My mother started teaching me as I showed interest early on. Then I went veg and taught myself. Then I went mostly vegan and taught myself vegan cooking and baking. I still eat mostly vegan, but bake exclusively vegan. I dabble in raw, but I need a dehydrator to become accomplished.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 14:15:45 GMT
I'm a much better cook. The only thing DH ever recalls fondly is baked macaroni and cheese with toast crumbs on top. I grew up eating pasta and cheese sauce made on the stovetop, so that's what I make. I should make the baked version for him sometime, I honestly never even think of it. ETA: I've thought about it, and I take it back... I'm not a much better cook. I think I just season food better than she does. She is a good cook, very traditional in a lot of ways. Ashley, I have an AWESOME baked mac & cheese recipe if you want it. It has white cheddar, and instead of bread or cracker crumbs, it has sauteed bacon and onions. Before we found this recipe, I would only eat Kraft, 3 cheese shells. I didn't like "homemade". I could eat this stuff every.single.day! Sure, I'd love your recipe! Btw, when I said stove top, I meant homemade, not KD
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 14:29:32 GMT
Better, in general. She is a decent cook, nothing ever turns out horrible, but she's not an adventurous cook and can't make anything without a recipe.
Lana
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Post by kristalina on Aug 22, 2014 14:36:30 GMT
His mom worked like 3 jobs so didn't really cook much. BUT his grandmother lived with them and he was the first grandchild so he was the little prince. Not only was she an exceptional cook, she waited on him hand and foot. So I'm sure my cooking is a very distant second after his grandmother.
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Post by perumbula on Aug 22, 2014 15:05:19 GMT
Much better. She's not horrible, but her cooking is bland and unadventurous. She tells me what a fantastic cook her mother was, but MIL must have learned very little from her. We are almost never invited over just by ourselves. There's always a huge crowd so the food is pot luck. And even though I'm an accomplished baker and a great cook I always, always, always get assigned the green salad. Sometimes I'm allowed to bring my home made dinner rolls to thanksgiving, you know, if someone else hasn't already signed up to bring grocery store ones.
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Post by jetscat on Aug 22, 2014 15:09:24 GMT
Both his parents say I do! that makes me feel good. Dh loves my cooking, when I'm home!
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 22, 2014 15:13:26 GMT
My MIL is a better cook than I am. I'm not really good at cooking. I have attempted to make several of his mom's dishes and he has said I did a good job, but I'm sure his mother's was better.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 16:01:55 GMT
Better by far. She has a couple of things that she makes well, but that is it. My DH used to go on about her gravy all of the time so I watched her make it once. No freaking wonder he loved it! She had more butter and bacon grease in there than was in the dairy case at walmart! He has since not loved on her gravy quite as much!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Aug 22, 2014 17:48:34 GMT
I am a way better cook than her. My DH wouldn't touch a veggie to save his life when we met. Now, he loves meatless meals and begs for steamed broccoli.
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Post by alyssam on Aug 22, 2014 18:26:36 GMT
Only family recipes and I know I don't make them as well, but I am getting better. My tortellini often look like a vagina, but they taste the same once cooked. I am so glad I didn't have a drink in my mouth when reading this. Heeheehee
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Post by dynalady on Aug 22, 2014 18:36:37 GMT
My MIL was a wonderful woman, but she could.not.cook. All the meat went into a pot of water on the stove with celery, carrots and onions and boiled. You couldn't tell a gray chicken from a gray roast from a gray pork chop. The only vegetables they had were green beans and corn. My mother and grandmother were great cooks and I learned from them. A lot of what I made DH had never seen before and he loved it, even if it took him a long time to remember that the green stuff that looks like a tree is broccoli LOL.
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Aug 22, 2014 18:47:16 GMT
I can't say I am a better cook than My mother in law was but I can say that there are things I cook better than her but then again there are things she cooked better than me. like her egg gravy. yes I said egg gravy. She made it for us one time we were visiting her and I loved it. I hate eggs and loved this stuff. she would put it over toast. it was so good she showed me how to make it so I could make it and I never did get it like hers. I finally gave up after many years of trying. Damn I miss her and her egg gravy. She made different kinds of food than we do... She also did au gratin potatoes to die for too. but I did get the recipe and I did make them.... And they are good.... But not as good as hers. I think that they were better when she made them because she made them... you know the saying it is always better when mom makes it...
Well that saying doesn't not cover my mom when it came to cooking but it did when it came to baking. My home was the worlds worst cook. but she was the best baker around. We never bought store bought bread when I was a kid. she would bake it from scratch and freeze it. I think she made bread every 3 or 4 months. She made the best cakes and cookies too. But I hated her cooking.... except when she made a turkey.... but then again it was baked in the oven.....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 18:57:03 GMT
We're pretty even I'd say. She has some recipes that I can never get as good, and I have some that she can't make either. She grew up very traditional and has her foods that she can rock, but she struggles introducing new foods. And I can make all those traditional meals, plus I love to try new recipes. Cookies on the other hand... People marvel at how perfect her cookies look. She makes the best, and I mean THE BEST round cookies. I try very hard not to eat at least a dozen in one sitting when she has them out.
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