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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom taught me how to cook and my dad taught me how to grille.  My dad and I have the same preference for how things are grilled so that worked out well.

My mom was very...stereotypically 80s/90s white suburbia SAHM cooking.  Blandish, casseroles, then a switch to "heart healthy".  It wasn't bad per se, but definitely not the type of food I eat now.  I think I have 3 recipes from my childhood that I will cook now.  My grandmother's mac and cheese, a scallop recipe from my mom, and a salmon recipe from her.

My mom taught me the basics of cooking, but I developed my own love for it in high school and enjoyed experimenting with flavors.  I rarely use a recipe.  I get inspiration from one but will tweak things.  My mom always comments about how she has to folllow a recipe down to the tsp.

Dh's mom cooked a similar way to mine and DH developed a real love for various types of hot sauces.  He too has developed his own love for cooking and cooks quite a lot.  [/quote]
Thanks for answering! I guess I am wondering how our parents' cooking skills transfer to us being good cook and/or liking to cook.
Those three dishes sound great, to be honest. We only ate fresh water fish at the house, and would only have seafood if on a beach vacation.[/quote]

My grandmother's recipe was amazing.  My mom didn't cook it often because my grandmother tweaked it a lot from the original recipe and she was always disappointed when it didn't taste the same.  It took my awhile to figure out what she had done to change things.  And yes, the two seafood dishes are delicious.  My mom found those recipes when I was in high school and became pescatarian.  She only eats white fish that "doesn't taste like fish" but my dad would eat the salmon.  Prior to that, our only seafood was corn flake crusted sole.  Which looking back was actually pretty good.  Maybe I will make that again too.  [/quote]

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