Whats the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your mum and dads cooking?

[PunnyBeaker]

Ready meals

Chip pan

Convenience foods

Microwaves. A spice rack with herbs older than me that are never used. Bizarre mixtures of reduced food from the freezer. Defrosted tzaiki with defrosted pasta for dinner anyone?

My father never cooked.
My mother was a good cook, baked cakes every week. Rarely bought anything ready made and, apart from the very occasional fish and chips, we never had takeaways.
Mind you, this was in the 1950’s and ‘60’s.

Small helpings. My Mum was a reasonable cook, Dad never did any, but she never cooked enough. I was constantly hungry throughout the 70s. No second helpings at all.

Delicious.

aspirational and capable

Delicious.

Adequate. I've inherited their lack of interest in cooking.

Mum -veg boiled to mush, but that’s ok as it was what I was used to.
AMAZING chips done in the chip pan.
yolk only fried eggs because I was a brat.

dad - weird pies. Lots of sausage meat and egg.

Delicious - learned my best recipes from them. Both are awesome cooks

Pot noodles

Mum’s delicious and wholesome. Dad’s, not sure he can cook 😁

It was in the 70/80s and my DM was a pretty bad cook. I don’t remember any particular meal that I really enjoyed. It felt like there was always offal in it somewhere, even though DM use to tell me those small chewy things weren’t kidneys but mushrooms.

My mum made the best home cooking I've ever eaten. Wonderful food. My dad can't boil an egg.

DF specialised in soup after he retired (made a batch most weeks, for Christmas etc), could cook a roast and made a mean Victoria sponge.
DM made her own bread and until the last 10 years made most things from scratch. She still does a great roast with Yorkshire pud and there is always lots of veg.

Carb heavy!! DM survives purely off beige carbs and vegetables with hefty helpings of salt. No protein in sight for as long as I can remember. She’s 92 and perfectly healthy - no idea how!

Home cooked meals, everything made from scratch and most veg home grown. My mothers baking and her chutneys and relishes. My dad heated things my mother had cooked, he never actually made it.

Volcano potatoes (mash mountain with a fired egg and Tommy K on top)

sausage and mash hedgehog

titanic potatoes (hedgehog but with 4 funnels and a sea of peas)

homemade cakes

Endless offal and pigs' heads, pigs' trotters etc. Revolting. I've been a vegetarian my entire adult life.

Wholemeal

Safe.

My mum is a meat and two veg cook, she does it all very well though. She’s never think to cook a curry or anything other than potatoes and veg as an accompaniment. Salad is but a gesture - she thinks we are very ott with our ‘huge bowls of salad’ 😂. The meat / fish chicken is always the focus. My dads a little more adventurous but he’s up against my mum, so he tends to cook just for himself at home and let her organise bigger family meals.

My dad didn't cook very often, but when he did it would often be experimental. The stand out was a Shepard's pie with lots of curry powder in it.

That my dad's roast potatoes were absolutely heavenly and I'll never get them that good again in my life😭

Mums cooking was brilliant. She grew up very well off and travelled the world so had lots of exposure to different types of food

dad (didn’t live together) would barely even do a food shop and he cooked what I called “council food”. Those square cheese slices in a sandwich (the plastic type ones), tinned macaroni, everything UPF and from a tin. It was borderline neglectful