I had to laugh because my husband has always said that he didn't know what good cooking was until he met me....and he'd say that in front of his own mom!
My husband once told his mother that my molasses cookies were even better than hers. She didn’t look at or talk to me for about an hour!
I taught myself to cook instead of suffering through Mom’s cooking. Holidays, we ask her to only bring the salad and it’s still inedible. Avocadoes in a fruit salad, ugh. And everything is always diced to nearly mush.