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Do you cook your family nice meals?

Lady Narcissus

14

'EDIT' This is hilarious - 5 years on, I would like to announce that I am an accomplished chef!!

(edited 14 years ago)

Reply 1

username9303

3

Well I couldn't boil an egg, so I contribute absolutely nothing to the culinary side of the house. Actually I contribute nothing to any aspect of the household lol :biggrin:

Reply 2

bedbug

14

Mum generally does the cooking, but I help out with some meals from time to time. When I make food though it's usually fairly basic - spag bol, etc. Why is your mum demanding nice meals if you're doing all the cooking? If you shared half an half and she cooked really nice meals and you cooked ready meals I'd understand, but yours sound nice enough anyway.

Reply 3

33.33.33

2

your mum should appreciate at least the help she gets! my parents moan so i cook things, and theyre just happy to not have the responsibility of preparing a meal for one night! it seems harsh that she's being picky about the ingredients?!

Reply 4

high priestess fnord

9

all my cooking is simple and involves lots of meat and no veggies. i used to cook for the family because my rents were working but my mum would give me recipies etc. why dont you ask your mum what she fancies eating or do some cooking together so she can teach you what she wants?

Reply 5

hugsnkisses

9

we would be doomed if mum had to cook in our house, she nearly set our caravan on fire trying to cook beans. Anyway, i cook quite a bit i enjoy it, i don't always use fancy food but i present it in a way that looks really nice and really well thought about, not just plopped in a bowl. I really enjoy cooking it is really good when you are stressed it calms me right down.

Reply 6

Shreerac1

10

Maybe shes worried that you won't be able to feed yourself when you go to uni.

Reply 7

Lady Narcissus

OP

14

Oh I am going to Uni for a masters. I did no cooking when my finals were on, other than a throw in pizza etc. Not much. I lived at home and this is how the rift started LOL! We share half half. I am just on the go at the moment running all over and I don't really want family meals. Opps

Reply 8

unfinished sympathy

15

LauraWalker

Oh I am going to Uni for a masters. I did no cooking when my finals were on, other than a throw in pizza etc. Not much. I lived at home and this is how the rift started LOL! We share half half. I am just on the go at the moment running all over and I don't really want family meals. Opps

i never really cook at home, my mum does it all! At christmas i bake cakes though which my mum love, so she eats them all. I don't think my mum really cares if i cook or not- she does most things around the house for both my dad and me, and as long as i do most things that she wants, she doesn't care! Like if she wants me to make her a cuppa, or make her a snack etc.

Reply 9

puppy

When I'm home I usually do all the cooking because my mum works and I don't so I tend to have something for her when she gets in. My dad hates everything I cook so he tends to make his own stuff.

You can still cook really simple stuff but use nicer ingredients so it seems more complicated. I suggest looking through the BBC's website, particularly at the Ready Steady Cook recipes as they're bound to be simpler.

I have an amazing duck recipe that's really hard to screw up but I shan't bother typing it out unless you and your mother like duck. Ditto salmon. So get back to me on what stuff you'd like to make and I'll suggest some stuff.

Reply 10

Rainbow_Chick

1

No i dont really cook dinner my mum does it, saying that many times I help prepare ingrediants like slicing veg, washing rice etc. If my mum is out then i will cook for me and my sister but it nothing special just like pasta, stir fry etc easy things. I think my mum would like me to do more.

Reply 11

Jack0

I'm working as a chef at the moment, before I restart at Uni, and have been cooking all my families meals for around four years.

Tonight I'm doing a watermelon and feta cheese salad with sunflower seeds and a lemon and honey dressing.

When I was in halls I got the nickname 'masterchef'

Reply 12

rename

lol my mum wants to teach me how to cook traditional asian meals .. i cook the normal stuff ... spaghetti bolognese, vegi pasta, stirfry, chilli, omeletes .. stuff that i can make out of a recipe book or is just fairly basic ... asian cooking isnt really recipe book stuff ... its like learn and adjust until you get it right .. hehe .. yh my mum nags me to cook other stuff .. and my brother hates it when i cook anything vegi .. so i stopped cooking as regurlarly as i did ... lunch for half the week .. dinner a few times a week .. now its more like one or twice .. and now my mums like ok fine .. make whatever you want .. she gets quite snappy sometimes because she can't cope with looking after everything like she used to .. so i'm trying to take more of an active role as soon as my exams are finished.

theres also the comparing you to other peoples children .. it gets annoying but i think what you're cooking sounds great .. sometimes even if you do comply with what they say ... they just find something new to nag you about .. so in the end it can be lose lose ..

but give it another try and have a long chat about it .. she is your mum after all .. they mean well .. but sometimes its gets on top of them too .. a good long chat .. even if it does end up in an argument needs to be had i think .. if she gets spiteful or anything try not to be back .. it does work in the end if one of you stays calm

Reply 13

Friggerpants

1

I don't cook much, as I don't know how to. Never bothered.

But I always help my mum and dad out.

Reply 14

dsch

13

of course I do! A modern man should cook (as well as be an astronaut, and god knows what else.) I actually think cooking is fun and means you don't have to eat all the ****ty sugar and e number laden crap they'd have us kill ourselves with.

Reply 15

hanadeka2002

Tell her to do it herself if she doesn't appreciate the meals you make.

I don't generally cook for my family but tonight I am making a chicken tikka.

Reply 16

unfinished sympathy

15

rename

lol my mum wants to teach me how to cook traditional asian meals .. i cook the normal stuff ... spaghetti bolognese, vegi pasta, stirfry, chilli, omeletes .. stuff that i can make out of a recipe book or is just fairly basic ... asian cooking isnt really recipe book stuff ... its like learn and adjust until you get it right .. hehe .. yh my mum nags me to cook other stuff .. and my brother hates it when i cook anything vegi .. so i stopped cooking as regurlarly as i did ... lunch for half the week .. dinner a few times a week .. now its more like one or twice .. and now my mums like ok fine .. make whatever you want .. she gets quite snappy sometimes because she can't cope with looking after everything like she used to .. so i'm trying to take more of an active role as soon as my exams are finished.

theres also the comparing you to other peoples children .. it gets annoying but i think what you're cooking sounds great .. sometimes even if you do comply with what they say ... they just find something new to nag you about .. so in the end it can be lose lose ..

but give it another try and have a long chat about it .. she is your mum after all .. they mean well .. but sometimes its gets on top of them too .. a good long chat .. even if it does end up in an argument needs to be had i think .. if she gets spiteful or anything try not to be back .. it does work in the end if one of you stays calm

wow i'd love that, to be able to make a tradtional curry, i wouldn't have to pay mountaineous prices for a chicken madras :smile:

Reply 17

gigglybum

9

I can't cook, never really tried either, it bores me; so generally my dad cooks, since my mom can't either. I'm sort of worried about university though (Self catered), so i guess i'll be living off canned beans or something :frown:

Reply 18

1013

1

She sounds very ungrateful. My mum is ecstatic if I make her cheese on toast!
Tell her that you're not a chef, you're a student and if she doesn't like what you cook then she will have to make her own.

Reply 19

Glory

1

I cant cook, its not my thing and my mum knows it. I tend to cook things with instructions or pasta and rice kind of stuff. Im never keen on cooking meat though, i wouldnt know whether if was cooked properly and have a phobia of eating undercooked food.

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