So, your sister has turned cooking into a Mommy War. She's decided that what she does is so superior and what you do is so inferior that she has to be condescending about it and make it into a argument.

Why do so many women look for more opportunities to just and tear down other women for the decisions that they make? It's ridiculous and so is making a distinction between cooking and feeding your family.

Anonymous wrote:if a pot, pan, or baking dish get dirty, it's cooking. You joined food with heat. That's cooking. Well done!

Agree. If I heat a frozen lean cuisine for lunch I don't think of it as cooking my lunch. Making a sandwich is making a sandwich, not cooking. But if I make spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, even if it's boxed pasta, jarred sauce and frozen meatballs I'm cooking. Not from scratch, it's all prepared foods being assembled into a larger meal but it is being cooked.

She's being pretentious trying to take ownership of a word to make herself feel better about something.

Anonymous wrote:if a pot, pan, or baking dish get dirty, it's cooking. You joined food with heat. That's cooking. Well done!

In self-defense, I'm a wonderful cook. Do big elaborate dinners. Make Southern classics like my grandmother did. I've mastered the sous vide and lamb. Not duck though.

if a pot, pan, or baking dish get dirty, it's cooking. You joined food with heat. That's cooking. Well done!

I think the quick meals you listed are cooking. Heating up a tray of chicken nuggets isn't cooking. I also think your sister is being a pain.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with your sister. Your feeding your family. There's nothing wrong with that. But cooking is an activity that takes some skill and knowledge as well as time. In the end though, does it really matter what you call the activity as long as you get the food on the table.

I agree with this. Also, your sister is wrong, in that those meals are markedly better than fast food.