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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mil loves cooking "ethnic" food except she always adds in 2-3 times as much of one or two spices that she likes and the result is BAD. It's especially noticable to me when she cooks Indian food because I am Indian and the food tastes all wrong. Do I just let it be? I'm embarrassed for when she is going to invite my parents over and she serves them what is supposed to be my moms recipes but she messed with the spices. What do I do?[/quote]
You say thank you. Her cooking is bad, but intentions are good.[/quote]

This. My MIL looooooooooves to come to my house to try to make anything Italian. My family is straight off the boat, my mom is an insane cook (where MIL thinks "cream of X soup" is a valid ingredient in dishes) and my grandmother is practically a cartoon of the cooking Italian grandma. Its gross, I smile and say thank you.[/quote]

+1.  Also Italian.  My MIL also enjoys 'cooking Italian'.  I think she used cottage cheese in her Lasagna ... and jarred sauce.  I simply eat what she makes and thank her for cooking.  I also try and pre-empt the cooking attempts when I can - when my family is coming over - I plan the meal ahead of time and if she would like to help I ask for prep help (can you cut up this).  [/quote]

Another Italian here.  There are three of us!  :) [/quote]

Original Italian. 3 of us! I think we are it, which explains the lack of mom and pop Italian American places that are decent............JK. Sort of.[/quote]

If you mom is like min, she used cottage cheese because it's container is similar to ricotta and they are usually next to each other at the supermarket.  My mother did this years ago.  I love her and swallowed hard that night, but God bless her for trying [/quote]

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