So cooking is pretty much my NMom's talent, but over the last decade, her cooking has gotten very bland, veggies overcooked, meat rubbery, bones still remaining. We think it's her aging but there are also signs of her letting go (getting lazy, over it, being a domesticated cat).
Late college years I finally showed interest and asked her to teach me. She taught me 3 good recipes (my fave dishes of hers). I wouldn't exactly call it teaching, she'd just say "watch and learn." She wouldn't tell me when to watch the water, when to turn down the heat, when the meat is properly cooked etc, but would bitch about me not knowing how to cook. (This trend is for everything. She literally taught me nothing but expected me to somehow knew everything).
Anyway. My siblings were a fan of my cooking. NMom got jealous. She stopped "teaching me" I would literally ask her 5 times and she'd just wait it out and said not yet, I'll call u to the kitchen, but she'll start and finish without me. Ok? My sister was my biggest fan. That didn't settle well with NMom since that's the only thing she did well and I better not take that role away from her. So she started saying my cooking was "too salty, too sweet, too sour." But my siblings loved it. She made me doubt that they were just being nice but even when I didn't announce I'd be preparing dinner, they could smell my cooking and come to the kitchen and wait for me to offer. Of course. Then she'd start doing something strange.
When she'd run out of excuses to"teach me" she would give me a "fake recipe." Like Mom, I know exactly how you make that dish everytime, this is not it, there's like 3 ingredients missing. She'd just generalize everything, "You know you just put whatever sauce you want and taste it out. That's it." [She didn't want me to outdo her recipes].
So I was like fuck it, I'll self teach via the Internet (thank you Internet). But I fucking hate it, makes me cringe. Whenever I make dinner she'd come sneaking in the kitchen and watch whatever I'd make. If I messed up, she'd give herself a sly smile/chuckle. She never offered to help or give pointers. So obviously she wanted to watch me fail. And when I walk away from the kitchen during waiting time, I know she'd sneak in and taste my cooking so she could talk shit to herself.
I surprised myself that I was not so bad at cooking.But then something interesting happened. I made the same recipes that I'd usually make well, but they would end up tasting completely different than when I tasted it before I was finished. So now I have a sneaking suspicion she'd been sabotoaging my dinner when I walk away.
The last time it tasted like someone poured 3 tablespoons of salt on my dish. But when I tasted it, it was delicious. Here's the thing too. It was only crazy salty on ONE corner of the dish, the rest of it tasted fine... like someone just poured salt on one corner! I'm pretty sure I sauteed everything evenly. This would explain her sneaking around me while I prepare dinner because her ass stays glued to her chair all day pretending to "work" on her laptop. I tried to prepare dinner at odd times to see if she would follow me and she does.
I fucking can't stand it! She literally watches my every move out of the corner of her eye and invades my privacy in every crevice! I hate that it took me so long to see her true form and I hate that I can't immediately leave yet.
I can't wait for that that day that I leave her!!! I can't wait for NC! It can't happen soon enough!
Wtf is wrong with her, seriously???
Add on: Since my suspicion, I never leave the kitchen until I'm completely done with dinner and my dishes have been coming out well each time!
Submitted February 01, 2017 at 02:25AM by throwthataway413 http://ift.tt/2jVqCDp
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