im no longer concidered a good cook. are you?

i cant cook but my mom is the old southern cooking and i would take her food over gourmet any day!! gourmet just never taste as good to me.. but then again i guess maybe his taste has changed or he is just used to hers and its not anything against you but just used to things being different

I love cooking and I am told on a few occasions that I am a good cook usually by other people then my husband who never compliments my cooking. So it is good to cook for others and hear them say that it was delicious and I am a good cook. I Love cooking gourmet and love the taste and flavors but I will try to cook a meal even if I don't have all the ingredients I will substitute or make it into something different, always been that way experimenting on foods. I do however cook mostly like you probably. My husband doesn't like what he calls fancy food and would rather just have the kind of foods he was raised on. Soup beans,fried potatoes,corn bread,sauerkraut,fried chicken,gravy,biscuits,.etc.. He isn't the spaghetti or Lasagna type or spicy foods. So alot of the times I might cook two meals since we hardly agree on what to have for supper. I think I am a good cook, I love cooking and take alot of joy cooking something that someone is going to get pleasure out of eating..I didn't have alot growing up and sometimes food was slim pickin's but it was filling and that is what really counts.

I've been told I'm a good cook, but I cook very simply and seldom venture out into anything different. However, my daughter is a cook in a high brow restaurant and she brings me some delicious and complicated gourmet type of food now and then. I'd never cook it, though, because I think it's a treat, not an every day kind of food. I was raised on fried potatoes, bacon and eggs and milk gravy, whole milk, lots of pork and a lot of beans and that's what I cook now, except for the pork and I'm allergic to it now. It's interesting to me that there weren't nearly as many heart attacks 50 years ago, when people were eating that kind of food.

I too enjoy cooking, but just plain wholsome food. I too cant go for the gourmet stuff. I make do with what is available and make a meal which tastes good. Now I have a cook who comes alternate days after I fractured my knee to do the cooking. We eat but Im sure my family misses my meals at times. My son has never cooked, he knows how to make eggs, thats all. My husband cooks at times. As you say, her cooking must be really costly. One must learn to cook with whats available and still make a good meal from that. Cheers.

Depends on who you ask. My kids love my cooking, my grand kids love my cooking nad want me to teach them how to cook. My husband... he doesn't want me to show him up so he says I am the worst cook in the history of the universe. Simply cause he used to be a fry cook at a Sambo's MANY years ago but to hear him tell it, you'd think he's been a world renouned master chef for the last 40 years, instead of a fry cook at a greasy spoon 40 years ago!

I am sorry but I am considered to be cooking at home because I am a guy and my mum doesn't allow me to cook at home. Yes, these days people need to learn about colestrol and all but it doesn't mean that old style cooking has no value. Yes, I do like old style cooking but we just need to take care of oil that is it? Is "Agra" a name of your son's gf?

I enjoy cooking and my basics are all the old favourites that I learned from my Mum. I have learned to do Italian and I do a few stir fry variations . I stick to the plain ole salads but I always get my daughter to do a Greek salad and a Caesar salad...she is tops at those...they just don't taste right when I do them. I rarely try new things and only sometimes will I incorporate some new dish into my repertoire.

I'm not much of a cook, tho I cook for my client, I prefer to not have to

Hello bunnybon7, I never cooked when I was single. As I come from a big family with six elder sisters, I had no worries about what to eat. My mom is a good cook, so are three of my sisters. The rest learned how to cook after getting married like me. I am happy now that I can cook some delicious meals for my husband and son.

i like to cook & don't get any complaints when i do, lol. i am just a plain ol' country cook. that's what i like, soul food as my son use to call it, lol. it's hard to cook for just one so i share with my friends when i can. they still have to work so it helps them out.

Well, I have been dieting and have learned quite a bit from the trainer I had for a period of time. I tried to eat grilled or baked meat. Not fried foods or salty stuff. And sugar is a thing of the past for right now anyway. I have about 75 more pounds to reshift [haha] and try to lose completely. I like to eat as naturally as possible. I fix alot of salads and maybe some shirimp or tuna on it. Use alot of herbs and spices. Drink alot of water and try to stay away from sweet additives and pop. I like to fix beans and casseroles in the winter. Soups and such. My grandma always had a soup on the back of the wood burning stove. She fixed meat and potatoes every day. She was a very good cook. My mom was too. I come from Irish heritage and love my potatoes. You don't have to frie those tators you know. you can do double cooked ones. Boil them til they are tender. Then add onions, green and red peppers and a few eggs. Some herbs or spices that your crew likes and bake it to perfection. Stick it under the broiler for a few minutes to brown those little suckers if you want. Good stuff.

I'm the survival cook! I make lots of casseroles and such so I only have to cook every other day! my husband, on the other hand, is the gourmet chef. He doesn't make alot of things, but when he does, it's wonderful! Home made raviolis, etc. We have a good friend who is a chef by trade and he's always calling him for advice on cooking whatever he wants to cook! Too bad he doesn't want to cook more!

I have never been a great cook. The only thing I can say is that I can cook very basic meals which just pass as a cooked meal. I get more compliants than compliments so I don't have the confidence to experiment with different foods. The worst complaint I got was off my husband. I though one night I did my best mashed potatoes. Normally when I do it, it tastes watery. This night, I felt that it was the creamiest I have ever made them even though it was not the best. My self esteem was high and I was proud of myself. My husband said to me that the potatoes tasted like dishwashing liquid. That really crushed me. So I told him that he can make mashed potatoes from now on. Now, I don't have the confidence to cook nice meals now.

I consider myself a good cook. I used to cook more when my children were home but now its just my husband and me. My husband is not a picky person there are some things he does not like and I do such as mushrooms so I have them on the side for me. He likes what I cook and eats everything I cook.

I consider myself an average cook...period. Both hubby and son are dependent on me so they better eat and praise whatever I serve...but I have a very sensitive tongue so if something is amiss, nobody need tell me about it. AND I too believe in cooking the old ways when there was no scare of cholesterol..I too cook within my budget i.e. no gourmet cooking for me, neither do I have all the apparatus to rustle up gourmet food. And let me tell you something...gourmet food would always taste nice even without the cook coz the ingredients themselves are expensive and tasty...the trick of a good cook lies in rustling up tasty wholesome food from the daily basic ingredients...so take heart.

I am a good cook a good cook can make anything out of nothing, take the great chefs of the world, they can make gourmet meals but if they don't have the ingredients they still can whip up something that taste good with what they have

i have a batchelor brother in-house. i can cook no wrong! LMAO,he's happy with anything. seriously,though..i'm by no means a sous chef,but i don't think i'm too bad of a cook.i make sauces and everything from scratch,though they seem most fond of meat pies and casseroles.

I love to cook but I don't cook well. My husband doesn't like the taste of my recipes. I tried to study cooking now so that I can able to cook a delicious food for my family.

I'm pretty sure I've never been considered a good cook. I like you cook on a budget. I feel like most of the time it's just as healthy and I would rather spend the money on something other than $15 steaks! I try to get creative, so it's not just mac and cheese, but if I want something gourmet, I'd rather just go out to eat and let someone else do the cooking and clean up.

I love cooking but am not good at cooking all the good stuff. I guess I took a lot from my mother. She has a few wonderful recipes to die for: like for example her lasagne aretotally special. My mother in law is a fantastic cook and definitely my husband still thinks that she is a much better cook than me. Pity for me and maybe even for him since he misses her cooking, but I am trying my best. He does tell me for example that my spaghetti bolognese or my shepherd's pie are much better than his mum's and I am happy with that. I cannot bake cakes as she does and I love eating the sweets she prepares!! My husband loves to eat and there are a few dishes I tried to prepare that compare well to his mum's: chicken pie and spinach pie. And my husband knows how to cook and sometimes he does: one of his best recipes is pasta with white sauce and gorgonzola. Very good!