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peekaboo716
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Do you cook like your mom?
peekaboo716
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As I was trying to figure out what to have for dinner tonight, I really noticed that the things I cook for dinner are nothing like what my mom would have made us. For example, I am considering making some pasta, and we never had that when I was growing up because my dad didn't like pasta. He liked meat and potatoes.
I feel like I make more adventurous options than what my mom would make even now. Although, she has been known in recent history to make a grilled turkey breast with a fruit salsa, that was not something she made when we were kids. In general, I wouldn't make a pot roast or meatloaf for dinner, and yet, my mom still does regularly.
One thing I do have in common with her cooking, though? A rut. We have the same things over and over, just like I did when I was growing up. It's just that the things I make are different.
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Re: Do you cook like your mom?
No, not at all. I cook almost everything from scratch and make up my own recipes. I use lots and lots of fresh ingredients. My mom made things that were just a few ingredients with a lot of boxed and jarred and canned ingredients. My dad is the more adventurous one in the kitchen.
I think it was that generation, really. Maybe I'm wrong. Most people I know that age like the "easy" stuff.
Yes, a lot of our regular dinners are from recipes she taught me.
We cook a little more healthy though, where my mom always focused on easy and low-fat. She uses a lot more prepackaged things where we try to make as much as we can from scratch.
DH does most of the cooking here, though. He cooks nothing like his mom or step-mom, they are both horrible cooks.
For certain things, yes I do. But she says I'm a better cook than she is.
I try to cook healthier meals and with less pre packaged ingredients. It's not every meal but the majority of them.
Landon * Kaydance * Kennedy
5/13/05 ******5/24/06
* Baby is due July 24 2012 *
Some things I make are similar to what I grew up eating, but not very similar to the way my mom cooks now. When I was a kid it was lots of middle eastern dishes; lentils, brown rice, tabouleh, hummus... Lots of stir fried veggies with tempeh. Lots of pasta or polenta and red sauce with veggies. My mom was a co-op shopper, but she was a single mom putting herself through college and working two jobs. If something went on sale we'd be eating it for weeks. We had oatmeal for breakfast every day for two years. It was grim.
These days she's always on some stupid diet, and she's developed an unnatural fear of carbs.
I still cook like a hippie, but I've swapped some of my moms outdated ideas for things that make my partner happy, like real butter.
My dad and I have nothing in common on the cooking front, except for one thing; frozen peas. I always have a few bags in my freezer and I add them to everything. I love peas!
My mom only cooks for big events, my dad is the every day cook. I don't cook like he does. He's big into meat-laden comfort foods but I'm a vegetarian.
I use some of my mom's recipes for comfort food type meals but otherwise I cook a much wider selection and eat more adventurous. I never liked veggies growing up but I now realize that's because my mom usually served them out of a can. Overall, my mom is a pretty good cook and has certain things that she makes very well. She always makes better gravy than me!
Ditto this. Right down to the veggies and the gravy
My mom is a good cook but really prefers something quick and easy over something that takes more time/steps/ingredients regardless if it tastes better or not. There are definitely a couple recipes of hers that I make when I want some comfort food but I like to try new recipes a lot and she likes to stick to her tried and true ones.
And I agree with ghm in it being a generational thing for them to tend toward quick, easy, pre-packaged meals.
Yes, my mother and father are both good cooks. My mom actually learned to cook from books and later from my fathers italian family. Her own mother was not a good cook.
My parents were pretty advanced food wise. We did not eat alot of processed food, and we grew up in the 70's-80's so it was uncommon. Lots of fresh fruits and veggies.
I cook a lot of stuff my mom does and over time our options have definitely expanded. She was always a whole foods, adventerous type (even back in the 70s and 80s before it was trendy... I was the dork at school with weird brown bread!) so I took after her. Similar type stuff, but always on the lookout for new ideas and new things to try.
When she was still married to my dad she was more limited in her options as he was definitely a meat and potatoes type of guy, but occasionally she got creative and he liked it. Once it was just her and the three of us she was very experimental so we were always trying new things.
My mother was all over the place. We ate anything and everything, and I kind of mean that literally. A botanist nut, she made some Native American recipes that contained ingredients plucked from a field. I have memories of eating tofu burgers long before I knew what McDonald's tasted like.
She also fell into the routine and ordinary as well, however, and one of my favorite things she makes regularly is baked mac and cheese. We also had taco night once a week, and spagetti and lasagna fairly often.
I am similar in that I will try recipes once or twice and never make them again, instead relying on the same old standbys.
This. And I have a little more variety than her. She just hated to cook.
Now sewing...she blows me away!
I cook more like how she wants to cook, but can't because her husband is strictly a mean & potatoes guy who doesn't like to try new recipes.
But even when we're cooking the exact same recipe, mine definitely tastes better - I use seasonings other than seasoned salt and pepper. And I cook a far larger variety of foods.
She does use more homemade ingredients than I do, though. She makes her own spaghetti sauce (from home grown tomatoes, no less) and chicken broth, which I don't.