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Mother's Home Cooking

  • 05-02-2010 8:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭


    Yeah, everyone's heard this expression but is it actually true?

    Is your mother a good cook?

    My mother must be the worst cook in the world... Every type of meat or fish horribly overcooked. Veg overcooked. Tinned beans or peas with every meal whether it goes or not....

    Lol, i remember one time i was cooking a piece of salmon and she says that it will be undercooked because i only had it in the pan for a few minutes. I said that's the way i like it. She said that i'd get food poisoning..... i opened the fridge and pointed to the pack of sliced smoked salmon and said "how come you don't get food poisoning from eating that so?" Apparently there was some difference between the two:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Nobody beats my Mams cooking and I mean it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Yup my Mam was a cook and a damn good one at that. My ex's mother on the other hand. Burnt even veg, how the hell do you burn veg? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    My mum's an amazing cook! Stews, lasagna, pies, roasts, curries - you name it! And, she didn't learn it from Jamie or Nigella or even Darina - she got her cooking skills from her own mum, an equally excellent cook. Sadly, I'm the generation that's breaking the tradition. I can follow a recipe, but I don't have my mum's flair.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭Degag


    Kiera wrote: »
    Yup my Mam was a cook and a damn good one at that. My ex's mother on the other hand. Burnt even veg, how the hell do you burn veg? :confused:

    Lol, even my mother couldn't burn veg!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Nobody beats my Mams cooking and I mean it.

    It's true.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭Lillylilly


    My ma is a deadly cook.. She has always been brilliant at cooking and baking. She makes a mean lasagne and her tea brack is the best around! I've never known anyone who's mammy can't cook. I thought it was supposed to come with the territory!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Degag_ wrote: »

    Is your mother a good cook?

    I wanted to ask my missus her view on this sexist question....... But she was too busy doing the cooking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    My mam was a good cook also good at baking - brown bread, apple tarts etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    No one can beat my mam's bread and butter pudding. I won't eat it anywhere else now cos of the disappointment.
    Oh and she makes mean pancakes too-Pancake Tuesday in our house is a huge event!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    my mam was the best cook in finglas, i used to have a house full of friends, i thaught i was sooo popular, turned out it was my mams cooking, i was shattered


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    Yep, mammy's a great cook indeed... cannot beat her home cooking, especially on the 'oul sunday. Although, to be fair to him, my dad's a super cook as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭HereticPrincess


    my mam was the best cook in finglas, i used to have a house full of friends, i thaught i was sooo popular, turned out it was my mams cooking, i was shattered


    Haha odd. My nana was from Finglas & she was an awesome cook, so she always had people over for dinner!
    My own mam, is also an excellent cook. Even basic food, just better cos it's made by her!

    I cannot cook very well... But I shall learn! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    My Mam and Dad are both amazing cooks. Mam bakes, Dad does the savoury stuff, they can both do the in betweeny stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Nobody eats my Mams cooking and I mean it.

    Fixed...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    davyjose wrote: »
    Fixed...


    *Slow, drawn out sarcastic clap*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    My mam cooks very well but so do i :D


    I wouldn't date or marry a man who couldn't cook(maybe thats why i'm still single) :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    Haha odd. My nana was from Finglas & she was an awesome cook, so she always had people over for dinner!
    My own mam, is also an excellent cook. Even basic food, just better cos it's made by her!

    I cannot cook very well... But I shall learn! :D

    its in the finglas air :rolleyes:, i have to say i am an awesome cook, love having family over for dinner, the whole shabang. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    My mammy's a great cook!:D The Sunday Roast is definitely something I look forward to and her baking is brilliant too!
    My dad usually cooks steak,mash and veg when my mum's out which is awesome too!:)
    I think I'm pretty good at cooking, in Home ec anyway, except I'm really clumsy..... I broke a plate during my cookery practical in Junior Cert!:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    me ma's a very go0d cook!!!!

    (but she's on boards and knows my username so i have to say that!!!;) )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    but she's on boards and knows my username

    Is it just me, or does that seem wrong somehow?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    My mothers cooking would be crap now, she's been dead for two years, but yes, in life her cooking was superb. I've never been able cook my the same dishes she did, and get it to taste the same. Why is that!?:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,245 ✭✭✭psycho-hope


    nope my mum is a rubbish cook, she hates it so dosent see the point


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    My Mam can't cook, and now I'm a Mammy and I can't cook either!!

    It must be hereditary.....

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    My ma's a fairly ****e cook, Da does a nice roast.

    I'm a 'mazin' cook :pac:

    It must skip a generation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Kiera wrote: »
    how the hell do you burn veg? :confused:

    I must have you over for dinner some time.
    phasers wrote: »
    ...they can both do the in betweeny stuff

    We know. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Mammys cooking is amazing. So is the Mammy in law!

    I can cook basic things... spag bol, lasagne... steak etc. My mam makes amazing chicken wings marinaded in brown sugar and soy sauce they are the yummiest everrr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Best cooks I know are me and my grandad :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    My mam was pretty hit and miss with the cooking- she cooks a fab turkey at x-mas but hands out steak that you could fix yr shoe with- fabulous spag bolognaise but a really nasty lasagne with a rubbery top and watery base. She boils all veg to death and then george foreman grills beautiful burgers! Makes no sense but there you go, maybe she learned some stuff off her mam and just chanced the rest?
    (she also makes nummy choccy cake.......and god awful scones!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    MIN2511 wrote: »
    My mam cooks very well but so do i :D


    I wouldn't date or marry a man who couldn't cook(maybe thats why i'm still single) :confused:
    I can cook ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    My mother burns water when she puts on the kettle, easily the worst cook ever.


    My wife is the 2nd worst :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    My mother burns water when she puts on the kettle, easily the worst cook ever.


    My wife is the 2nd worst :(
    You got a raw deal there my friend :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    me ma is an average cook, but the thing with her dinners is, she only buys the best meat, so it's always divine.

    my dad is a brilliant cook, can make up a feast out of anything, although he has been told to put down the spices a few times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭cock robin


    Degag_ wrote: »
    Yeah, everyone's heard this expression but is it actually true?

    Is your mother a good cook?

    My mother must be the worst cook in the world... Every type of meat or fish horribly overcooked. Veg overcooked. Tinned beans or peas with every meal whether it goes or not....

    Lol, i remember one time i was cooking a piece of salmon and she says that it will be undercooked because i only had it in the pan for a few minutes. I said that's the way i like it. She said that i'd get food poisoning..... i opened the fridge and pointed to the pack of sliced smoked salmon and said "how come you don't get food poisoning from eating that so?" Apparently there was some difference between the two:rolleyes:

    Your right about yore ma she is a crap cook. Her breakfast is woeful :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Yeah she is a good cook, but she has a tendency to turn a blind eye to the fact that I haven't eaten meat for quite a while. As soon as I get in the door shes trying to get me to eat chicken casserole or spag bol.


    Crazy ole coot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Abigayle wrote: »
    Yeah she is a good cook, but she has a tendency to turn a blind eye to the fact that I haven't eaten meat for quite a while. As soon as I get in the door shes trying to get me to eat chicken casserole or spag bol.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    god i miss me ma's roast beef n yorkshire pud with real gravy, yummeeee:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    Degag_ wrote: »
    i was cooking a piece of salmon and she says that it will be undercooked because i only had it in the pan for a few minutes. I said that's the way i like it. She said that i'd get food poisoning..... i opened the fridge and pointed to the pack of sliced smoked salmon and said "how come you don't get food poisoning from eating that so?" Apparently there was some difference between the two:rolleyes:
    i tried goooogling it..but a raw salmon fillet has to be much worse than a smoked fillet. Anyone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    My ma was a terrible cook. The whole family too tbh and I had been brought up on a diet of terribly prepared food. Everything either overcooked or stewed. For example, I went to a restaurant in my early 20s and ordered a steak. My overriding thought on leaving the place was "oh, so THAT's what a steak is meant to taste like!".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    anniehoo wrote: »
    i tried goooogling it..but a raw salmon fillet has to be much worse than a smoked fillet. Anyone?
    I was in a hotel once in killarney and I ordered salmon sandwiches and I had the option of either raw or smoked. I got one of each. The raw salmon was surprisingly tasty and breaks apart quite nicely as if it's been grilled to perfection - but cold. It has a slightly salty taste but was delicious all the same :). As for the smoked. It was rancid and I didn't finish it. I didn't like it at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭Degag


    cock robin wrote: »
    Your right about yore ma she is a crap cook. Her breakfast is woeful :D

    That supposed to be funny?
    anniehoo wrote: »
    i tried goooogling it..but a raw salmon fillet has to be much worse than a smoked fillet. Anyone?

    Wouldn't think it mattered tbh since it can be eaten raw safely anyway.
    was in a hotel once in killarney and I ordered salmon sandwiches and I had the option of either raw or smoked. I got one of each. The raw salmon was surprisingly tasty and breaks apart quite nicely as if it's been grilled to perfection - but cold. It has a slightly salty taste but was delicious all the same . As for the smoked. It was rancid and I didn't finish it. I didn't like it at all.

    Lol, i live in killarney! Anyway i'd far prefer raw over smoked salmon. - In actual fact, by smoking something, especially something as delicate as fish you are essentially cooking it. Hate smoked salmon though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    My mum is a pretty ace cook - I'm well into the old cooking myself and learned some great stuff from her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    When it comes to Italian food, my mother is the master. Mmmm. Home made meatball marinara...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭Degag


    McChubbin wrote: »
    When it comes to Italian food, my mother is the master. Mmmm. Home made meatball marinara...

    Mama Mia...!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭DamoDLK


    Damn, I miss the mothers cooking...:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Yeah you cant beat my ma's coddle its delicious and she can make these cornish pasties that you would sacrifice your first born for one heaven


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Emoran


    weird one for me!
    my mam is an amazing cook(when she wants to be)
    one day she would make a gorgeous dinner put in the best effort ever then the next she would throw some horrible ****e together and try pass it off as "dinner" although il be honest my granny was possibly the best cook ever!
    all my memories of her involve me eating in her house! id pop around for a visit without her knowing and somehow she would have something already cooking just for me! they've both pasted down there skills to me and im a pretty good cook well for things i like anyway:o steaks stir-frys currys roasts pastas and a few pastries and im only 17 hoping to become a chef one day:rolleyes: ive just made myself really hungry now thanks Boards:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭cock robin


    Degag_ wrote: »
    That supposed to be funny?


    Yup thats why there is a smiley :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,046 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    My mom can't cook.I don't eat anything she cooks now.My dad is a good cook and I'm not bad,so it balances out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    Grannies home cooking.Irish traditional food oh :( I miss my granny :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    My mam's cooking wasn't neccesarily bad, but most of the time our dinners were pretty plain, I rarely found myself eating till i was full.

    The worst thing though, is that she's like in the bottom 5% of the population when it comes to attitudes towards food hygeine, and I'm somewhat obsessive about it (I'm not some sort of clean-freak nutjob, It's just when it involves stuff that's going into my mouth that i make a big deal).
    Anyway, I can guarantee that she'll always manage to do something disgusting when preparing the dinner (if something fell on the floor she'd throw it back in if no-one was looking (she thinks it's a sin to waste food) :().

    So yeah, I haven't been eating them since starting college :P.


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