All praise is due only to Allaah. We laud Him and beseech His

Such a person cannot praise the cooking
Hadhrat would relate this incident often and always say that 
only that husband who regards his wife as serving him out of 
the goodness of her heart and as a ‘favour’ would think of 
appreciating and thanking her, and the person who regards and 
treats his wife as a servant will never even think of thanking her 
and being appreciative for all that she does.
The husband must personally serve his parents
A question arises as to what the situation will be if the 
husband’s parents are old and weak and they require assistance. 
Their son and daughter-in-law are living with them, so what 
will the solution be? In such a situation also, it will not be the 
responsibility and obligation of the daughter-in-law to serve his 
parents. However, it will be a meritorious act and from the 
goodness of her heart if she does render them service. She will 
be greatly rewarded by Allaah Ta`ala. Nevertheless, the 
husband must realise that the responsibility to serve his parents 
rests squarely on his shoulders. He should serve them himself 
or engage the services of some helper to serve them. It is not 
the obligation or moral duty of his wife to tend to his parents, 
but if she does, then he should realise that she is doing it from 
the goodness of her heart. 
It is impermissible for the wife to emerge from the home 
without her husband’s consent
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Regarding this matter, take into cognisance one other factor, 
otherwise one may get the ‘wrong end of the stick’. Many 
people who listen to only one side of a story tend to take unfair 
advantage thereof. As we had mentioned earlier that it is not the 
obligation of the wife to cook for her husband, but then on the 
other hand Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that women 
are prisoners in their husband’s home, which means that she 
cannot emerge from the home without taking her husband’s 
consent. Just as the Fuqahaa have explained the matter of the 
wife cooking for the husband in detail, so too have they 
discussed the matter regarding his right to prevent her from 
emerging from the home. To such an extent that if the husband 
prevents the wife from going to visit her friends and family, 
even her own parents, then she has to obey him. However if her 
parents come to visit her then the husband should not prevent 
them from coming. The Fuqahaa have stipulated a period that 
her parents should not come more once a week. This is the 
wife’s right, that she her parents at least once a week. The 
husband cannot deprive her of this right, but notwithstanding 
this she cannot leave the house even to see them, without his 
permission. So just as it is not her obligation to cook for him, 
she cannot leave the home without his consent.