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Ce que tu cuisines est très fade.

Ce que tu cuisines est très fade.
What you cook is very bland.
From Lesson 166:Indefinite relative pronouns (ce qui / ce que)·French

Questions & Answers about Ce que tu cuisines est très fade.

Why do we use Ce que instead of Ce qui in this sentence?
Ce que is used because it acts as the direct object of the verb cuisines (you are cooking 'what'?). If the 'what' were performing the action as the subject of its own clause, you would use ce qui, for example: Ce qui est sur la table... (What is on the table...).
What is the subject of the verb est?
The entire phrase Ce que tu cuisines (What you cook) acts as the subject for the verb est. When a whole phrase represents a single abstract idea, French treats it grammatically as a third-person singular 'it' (il), which is why the verb is conjugated as est.
Why does fade end in an 'e'? Is it feminine here?
Not exactly. When describing a general, abstract concept like Ce que tu cuisines, French uses the default masculine singular form. The adjective fade (bland) happens to end in an 'e' in its base masculine form, so it looks exactly the same in both masculine and feminine.
Since cuisines has an 's' at the end, do I pronounce it?
No, the 's' is completely silent. The -s is just the standard grammatical ending for tu with regular -er verbs in the present tense. This verb form sounds exactly like the noun cuisine.

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