Is there anyone in your family that thinks they’re the greatest cook ever, but you think they suck at cooking?!
Answers: They are always volunteering to cook or bring a dish for the holidays, because they honestly think they can cook. However, in the back of your mind you think otherwise – and it’s not an opinion, it’s a fact. I have an aunt like that. She is a caterer and she thinks her speciality is baking wedding cakes, pastries, etc. Her sisters (my aunts) praise her on her baking skills, but me, my mom and several others agree that her baked goods are terrible. They lack texture and quality. They don’t have a nice appearance to them either. Also, this same aunt thinks she is a pro and cooking soulfood, but her expertise is in gourmet foods. Everytime we have a family dinner, especially a holiday dinner, she feels that she is the one who should do all the baking. She actually gets jealous when other people bring baked goods and says they aren’t good and they aren’t from scratch like hers – but they taste better than hers.
My mother in law (God rest her soul). When we first met, the ONLY seasonings in her "spice cabinet" was salt, ground pepper and celery salt. No herbs of any type (fresh or dried). She would steam a brocolli stalk until it was grey and floppy and the next dinner, they would be so hard and uncooked you would have to use a knife to cut them.
But I loved her and ate everything she made. Also bought her a few cook books over the years.
i have been a chef for 7 years, although i dropped out of culinary school. a good chef will always take any critizism and strive to make his or her dishes the best they can be. it seems like your aunt needs one of her customers to complain to bring her back down to earth.
My Mother in Law!
I know mostly its a cultural difference but I still hate eating most of her food. TOOOOOOO many spices and gravies over power everything she makes! Then she has the nerve to talk crap to me when I cook. {which is mostly every night}. She always says "are you finally learning something"! I've been on my own over twenty years I think I know a thing or two by now.
Dont get me started on her "bakery"! She likes to add her own "extras" to the receipes! YUCK!!!!
I feel for you!
{Thank goodness we dont have to eat Thanksgiving there this year! lol}
OMG!!! My In-Law's can't cook to save their lives!! My sister-in-law is even going to culinary school...I didn't have the heart to tell her she sucks! I am doing Thanksgiving this year...lets hope it goes WAY better than the other years! Maybe after dinner I won't still be hungry this time! LOL!
People are like that. You may not like your aunts cooking, but others do.
I imagine it is the same everywhere.
I like my cooking but others may not.
Wow. That sounds horrible.
I know a person like that. I live with her family, so I really don't have a say in anything. An example of what she's like: the first time she had her new boyfriend over, she chose to cook him some sort of chicken and pasta dish. But she didn't want to actually cook it, so she bought it premade. After dumping it in a skillet, she dashed upstairs for half an hour, putting on makeup and getting ready. I stayed in the kitchen cooking the meal for her, adding seasonings and doctoring it up. When it was done, I took it off the stove, dished it out, and got everything ready for them. She came running downstairs when he got there and immediately took all the credit for the meal, claiming she made it from scratch. I was so mad!
She's also had a few cases of toxic cakes and muffins, but doesn't understand why the dog gets sick after she bakes. In fact, she sees it as her duty to bake for the family, all her friends, and her boyfriend's family as often as possible.
One doesn't brown his meats before baking them, he also forgets to check the meat on the grill and it burns. Another is older and her tastes buds are going so there is sugar in everything and i do mean everything.
my auntie thinks shes the best, but her food lacks flavour and presentation, she still thinks im a child who isnt allowed to touch the cooker, because she refuses to let me cook at hoildays, even thought im training to be a chef, but this year i will get my revenge because shes having a operation before xmas so i am getting to cook!! nomore dry turkey and overcooked veg.
My EX mother in-law.....her idea of homemade was to add things to already made things...for example:
beef stew, add beef stew seasoning packet to frozen stew veggies, spaghetti sauce, add jar sauce to can tomatoes, apple pie, use canned apple pie filling..etc....then say "I made this all from scratch, I let this sauce cook all day...etc." I hated her phony home made cooking. To me home made is everything from scratch.
Me and you might know the same person so NO COMMENT :)
my mom thinks she can cook but she can't her meatballs are hard as rocks her cookies taste months old so when she asks me what to bring I tell her wine because she can't screw that up.
LOL oh yeah....an ex-in-law....
I stood with amazement and watched her prepare Lasagna...did you ever hear of mixing the cheeses into the tomato sauce BEFORE layering it inbetween the noodles????
Last time she did this she brought it over to a gathering...now her Mom is very italian and a good cook...she brought a lasagna as well....
Needless to say Mom's dish disappeared in record time....her daughter's just sat.....
...and I overheard the Mom say to my ex-mother-in law " I
don't know where the h@ll she got that from, sure isn't the way I taught her to make it!" lol.....
...and of course the ex sister-in-law got her nose outta joint 'cause nobody would touch hers....well, it looked pre-digested!
My sister-in-law can only make brownies from instant mixes (but she tells everyone that she made them from scratch), she doesn't cook anything else or even try because she hates cooking or anything which might dirty her hands. And yet, she tells everyone how great a cook she is and that she can cook a lot of delicious foods within a short notice (which no one has seen or tasted any), even tried to teach the good cooks in the family the act of cooking.