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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not as fancy as the rest of you but here are things I make from scratch that my mom and MIL think are bizarre:
Waffles
Roux/bechamel(i.e no canned cream soup)
All pasta sauces
All sauces in general like gravy, curry
All baked goods (I.e. no canned frosting, no pillsbury cookies)
Mashed potatoes
Potato salad (not from the grocery store deli)
Pizza crust 
Naan
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I should have added roux/bechamel to my list above.   It is so easy to make.  Same with gravy. Like, just pour the drippings in a pot, and soften some butter in the microwave, dump in some flour, smoosh it up with a whisk, and then whisk it into the drippings on the stove top. Done.  [/quote]

I know it’s easy but tell that to my mother. She just shakes her head and says “i don’t know why you kill yourself. Don’t complain to me when you collapse from exhaustion.” As she opens her jar of brown slop..[/quote]

I feel that way about working moms who are making their own yogurt, cheese and pasta on the regular, so I guess we all have our own lines.  A certain generation of woman was taught that if she wanted to her family healthy, her hours were better spent on sanitizing her house rather than from scratch cooking.  That was the result of germ theory plus also the growth of food manufacturing to fuel ww2 armies.   We’ve now shifted to a view that food is medicine and excessive home hygiene is actually not great for your health, which is really different.  But we shouldn’t blame our mothers and grandmothers too much for doing what they were told was healthy for their families.  [/quote]

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