The person that can't cook...

6fsn

When you are having a potluck type of get together what do you give the person that can't cook?  Rolls.  What does my MIL always ask me to bring?  Rolls.  I swear on all that is holy I am an excellent cook.  I can't help it if they don't like non-processed foods or need to have cumin and tortellini explained to them.

Pisses me off. 

wejustwant2:)

Oh dear... I believe you!

Good Luck ~

R.Wilsonny

You should just cook something else and bring it (with the rolls too, of course). Then when she says something, say, 'ooooohhhhh.....I thought you said to bring -insert name of dish here-'

That sucks though - not nice when people don't appreciate your cooking....I hope your husband appreciates it at least....he's the one who really matters

babygirlpriest

Thanksgiving is hosted by my sis's MIL and she doles out the assignments:

YEAR ONE - Vanilla ice cream

YEAR TWO (just when you thought you couldn't get demoted) - Bottled water

YEAR THREE - I hosted.

6fsn

babygirlpriest:

Thanksgiving is hosted by my sis's MIL and she doles out the assignments:

YEAR ONE - Vanilla ice cream

YEAR TWO (just when you thought you couldn't get demoted) - Bottled water

YEAR THREE - I hosted.

That's hysterical!  I actually have a hard time getting the drinks they like- snapple diet peach iced tea.  I ordered it for them and they STILL brought their own.

If they think GFS mac and cheese and yams dumped from a can and a bag of salad is a good dinner so be it.

TarHeels&Rebels

babygirlpriest:

Thanksgiving is hosted by my sis's MIL and she doles out the assignments:

YEAR ONE - Vanilla ice cream

YEAR TWO (just when you thought you couldn't get demoted) - Bottled water

YEAR THREE - I hosted.

LOL!  Well 6, at least you didn't get asked to bring the bottled water  

5thOfJuly

Uh-oh. I usually assign the bread to a friend of mine who I know is a great cook. Baking is a skill set in and of itself that not everyone can do. I hope I haven't inadventantly offended one of them.

Ginger Le Coeur

I totally can relate to this! We do Thanksgiving at IL's every year. The first two years we were asked to just bring rolls... Ughh... We started just showing up with Corn Casserole (which is so yummy, but does use a lot of processed foods...) They loved that. Now we bring that, and I usually bring some kind of dessert as well.

I'm hoping to take over making the potatoes and gravy at some point... but that's going to take some time.  (They never put enough salt in the potato water so the potatoes are bland, and the gravy is also bland.)

 

MiniRoller

(Ok, this is maybe exposing me because this story definitely got around. So if this sounds familiar/ you now know who I am, HI!)

3 years ago was my 3rd or 4th Thanksgiving with my IL's. When I asked what I could bring- my MIL in all sincerity, responded with "placemats." There are only 6 of us @ dinner, all adults/ no kids, and muther f-n PLACEMATS?! I have not brought a single thing (except booze) to another dinner @ the inlaws. Yeah, not sure that one can be topped. And I'm a good cook!! Love to try new things! Receive compliments/ my dishes are usually one of first to go. My husband tried to console me w/ the reasoning that this all stemmed from jealousy.

Whatever. Placemats. Hmph!!

Milsey32

R.Wilsonny:

You should just cook something else and bring it (with the rolls too, of course). Then when she says something, say, 'ooooohhhhh.....I thought you said to bring -insert name of dish here-'

That sucks though - not nice when people don't appreciate your cooking....I hope your husband appreciates it at least....he's the one who really matters

I would cook something and bring it BUT ALSO bring the rolls. I really like rolls and would be bummed if there were none.

That's annoying dude.  

6fsn

5thOfJuly:

Uh-oh. I usually assign the bread to a friend of mine who I know is a great cook. Baking is a skill set in and of itself that not everyone can do. I hope I haven't inadventantly offended one of them.

Baking the rolls would be one thing.  Picking them up from the store is another.  Part of it is that the whole meal is prepackaged or processed crap.  I'd like to contribute something homemade.

ondrea

MIL always tells me not to bring anything - or gives me something simple.  at first I was offended and did tell her that I can cook (which she knows) and that I'm more than willing to contribute more.  Her reasoning is that I work FT and have DS and she's retired so she never wants to stress me out and just wants me to be able to relax.  I take her at her word and now I stop trying to read anything into it.  could that be similar....  ?