LAD wrote: The other half(?) What if she's half English?

Your question is rhetorical, eh?

Replace "mom" with "wife" and I give an emphatic NOT CRAP.

My mom's cooking never fit into either category above...probably b/c she doesn't ever really cook. (unless canned veggies and pasta is cooking)

Anyway, my wife cooks some amazingly great meals, and can still do so while keeping my dietary needs in mind. She's quite wonderful!

Belials' Personal Chef - AKA - The Bitch from the Kitch'

Mum,

You put me off food during my formative years.

Maybe it was the "very broad beans" you took from the back of your 2nd husbands' 18 wheeler and cooked them for us all to eat. Back then, we were a 'clear your plate before you leave the table' household. Oh my! That was a long night... Later we learned they were intended for cattle.

Your cruelty towards meat was beyond the beyond. Cremation and forced consumption: routine. I turned vegetarian just to piss you off (and to save my stomach a heaving-hernia).

I cracked the Yorshire Pudding in two attempts - in 25 years you've made none that rose!

Damn it Ma, you're over 50 - you're too old to be cooking; it's dangerous in there! Sit down a while, rest, I'm off to the Chinky...

same wrote:my mom sucks at cooking. she's good at drinking wine though.

Yeah, substitute wine with rum and ya' got my moms.

Let the record show that my mother is a great cook. However, we are Italian, she really.... really can whip up mean Italian dishes. Gnocchi, lasagna, stuffed squid, etc.....I could go on and on.....

glynnisjohns wrote:

same wrote:my mom sucks at cooking. she's good at drinking wine though.

Yeah, substitute wine with rum and ya' got my moms.

My Mum's a great cook. Particularly when inebriated on any form of alcohol.

My mum is a great cook, but she seems to have been letting her standards slip recently.

My mum is very good at both cooking and drinking.

I have known people whose mothers' food sucks, and I pity them.

Not Crap, but Dads cooking is much better than moms...

My mother was born in Ireland and, God bless her, cannot cook for shit. Boiled or mashed potatoes, no seasoning, with every meal. Canned vegetables. She would throw some meat in a broiling pan and dry it to jerky in the oven. Baked goods were always blackened on the bottom and the edges. Her pie crusts were two inches of thickened paste in places and mushy and paper-thin in others. She couldn't even make a simple bologna sandwich for our bag lunches - everything was misaligned and random blobs of yellow mustard would squirt out.

My dad is half Italian and used to give my mom a hard time about her cooking. His mom made delicious pasta sauce. (I don't see how she found the time as she was busy drinking herself to death.) My mom tried to make pasta sauce from scratch and literally put in an entire container of oregano in with some tomato paste. It was a deep greenish black. We all ended up with diarrhea.