[Don't say it like that -- Leaf yanks her hat down over her eyes and and frowns.]

Mom taught me some things before I left Pallet Town, and I had to make my own food when I was [lost] in Viridian Forest and Mt. Moon... I'm not, like, really good at it, but I'm definitely passable.

[She might be a shy little girl prone to minor anxiety, but she is not gonna let her one okay attribute cooking skills be insulted.]