I am honing my cooking skills daily. I can follow a recipe to a tee. I can make a mean homemade pizza, but when my mom cooks there is something about the seasonings and the smells that are so good. I just cant seem to duplicate the skills.
2006-09-09 11:04:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I say the same thing hun, I say it about certain foods as a child, i just cant get it just right, even when i have it from the horses mouth. I feel in opinion only that it is not our taste, but our memeories, we are trying to relive, and we remeber it a certain way in our head. We cook just fine, but love how our heros or specail peopel cooked for the love that came with it.
2006-09-09 11:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by Sassy V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean. I think it's the love. It's also our child-memories remembering the emotions that went with the smell of our favourite suppers, cookies, and bread being baked. My son says the same things about my cooking that I used to say about my mom's. By the way, sounds like you still have your mom. Make sure you get all her recipes and secrets. My mom died fairly young, so us kids had to scramble for how to make certain things we remembered - she made lots out of her head.
2006-09-09 11:50:02 · answer #2 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Join the club, Sweetie...they never tell us their secrets! To this day, the only way my greens come out good is when she is on the phone when I am making them.
When I was growing up, my Mom made beef stew every Saturday in the Fall. When I moved out of state, I called her for the recipe. She said "Just put some stew beef in water and add frozen vegetables and potatoes."
It tasted like crap. CRAP!
She said "Did you add your Golden Mushroom Soup?"
Did you tell me to??????
Over the next few years, I tried to recreate that dish, to no avail. I made some awesome beef stews, but not like hers. Last year when I went home for Christmas, she asked what meals I wanted. Beef stew.
She said "I never made beef stew. I always used ox tails."
Sigh
My Aunt told me this: instead of recreating the recipes (which is impossible), use hers as a base and create my own.
2006-09-09 13:55:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although learning to cook well is extremely satifying especially if those you are serving really enjoy it as well, I think food usually tastes better when prepared by others...perhaps that's just me appreciating the fact that I got to take the night off. One thing to check however is the brands that your mother uses. Example...spinach dip tastes completely different when you use Miracle Whip (whick I think is way better) instead of regular mayonaisse whick the recipe usually calls for. Or if you use Heintz ketchup instead of generic catsup. When getting those recipes from mom make sure you ask her for the brand names of each product.
2006-09-09 11:15:53 · answer #4 · answered by Carolyn G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow i SO know wut u are talking abt- its just different when mom's make it! no matter how many times u try you have to accept that mom's have some kind of golden "touch" that makes their cooking different.
also, have you heard how people say that they can't eat what they themselves have cooked? i have that problem, but i think that's because i taste the food while its being cooked many times.
eventually when u become a mom, ur kid's will be calling you up from college and will ask u the same question that you have asked us- "why cant i get my food to taste and smell as gd as ur's mom" :)
2006-09-10 00:19:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is something that comes with experience I'm afraid..she can tell by the smell if it needs more or less seasoning...or if she taste it,,she just knows what it needs...that will only come with practice....so practice...won't to come and cook for me..you can practice on me..LOL
2006-09-09 11:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How Sweet! I don't know when was the last time you seen your Mom. Maybe you miss her. So pack a few things and go visit.
2006-09-09 11:41:04 · answer #7 · answered by Sam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i cook for a living & still have been asking myself this qustion for years! my theory is that food taste better when other people make it, especially my mom.
2006-09-09 14:12:41 · answer #8 · answered by heartichoke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its psychosimatic, you assosiate those smells with a mother that you may wish to be, so you try to emulate it, however you may think of your mother as a very high almost unaproachable greatness. You assosiate that smell to her, but because you feel you cant be as good as her, it doesn't have that smell
2006-09-09 11:12:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you should ask your mom exactly how she makes her foods. ask her to write a recipe book for you and follow it step by step. you'll make each meal better with practice.
2006-09-09 11:06:44 · answer #10 · answered by loretta 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋