What's with these hags and the "women should teach their daughters how to cook"? I'm sure she was jealous because she had nothing good to teach.

I learned cooking from my SO, who had to learn when he was a child (he was left alone pretty often). Helicopter Gothel almost never allowed me to touch any stuff that was cooking, yet she loved berating me for being useless. EDad was a better cook than her, and while I was a kid there where a few times we prepared stuff or baked together. But he lacked any patience and would get angry if I didn't do things perfectly at the first try. Later, the cooking sessions stopped completely. So I grew up not even knowing how to use a gas stove.

I turned not even bad at cooking later, yet my parents never had anything good to say about stuff I would give them, time after leaving the house. Chocolate ganaches, lemon jam, homemade soda, whatever, they only could point what was wrong (too sweet, too tart, I don't eat that...). But my brother made a pot of rice? So heavenly. I'm not exagerating. He seems to be decent, but really? Not hard to tell who was the SG and who the GC.

Nowadays I like trying new recipes, but I'm a bit too chaotic and usually end up ruining the stuff. So my motivation has partially died. Luckily my SO is a great cook so we won't die of food bore.