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One of the few meals my whole family loves is vege burger stew. It was a recipe my mother in law passed on to me and is a great one pot comfort meal.

Homemade preserves - particularly Seville orange marmalade for my partner, strawberry & raspberry jam & elderflower cordial from the garden. I've also started making elderberry cordial which is a great flu/winter bug preventative and cure.

I love cooking brownies, they always go down well as such lovely comfort food!

Most of the important people in my life are either children or come complete with children, so I cook them macaroni cheese. I even shove in peas in a nod to nutrition, bacon for deliciousness and some crispy crunchy breadcrumbs on top. It is not remotely low in fat or carbs, or free from dairy or gluten, and all the better for it.

Baking a cake they will love to the kids specifications is always a challenge but a labour of love - thankfully they are understanding if things don't always go to plan. in terms of savoury meals - my sons love croquettas and my eldest son even wrote in his school report in the section that the child completes that he likes it when mum makes croquettas.

I love cooking for the family I,d cook up some homemade fish fingers for the kids & some spicy Moroccan lamb tangine for the bigger kids 😉
Followed by homemade berry brûlée with homemade vanilla ice cream

I cook for my 4 children, 8 grandchildren and two chinese students who are with me for 2 years. They love my roast dinner the best, we always do 3 veg, meat or chicken, yorkshires, roasters and the speciality is grampy's gravy, but I cannot take credit for that - it's my hubby's secret recipe!

I recently cooked a birthday dinner for my 84 year old father.

We started with toasted rye bread topped with laverbread, grilled prawns and prosciutto. (I'd have preferred clams but DF is allergic to oysters so we're wary).

Main was our local salt marsh lamb which he loves. We slow roasted it in the Big Green Egg and served with boiled new potatoes and roasted carrots.

Pud was a frangipane tart with plums from our garden, bottled in brandy over the winter.

We were all quite full :-)

My family have their favourites but I think the thing I most enjoy cooking for them is when I try to recreate a meal they have eaten elsewhere & loved (salmon marinaded in ginger, chilli & soy sauce; ham, leek & mustard crumble; or a chicken stir fry they've had at the restaurant). But I really enjoy cooking with my dc (dd 13 & ds 11) & I think teaching them to cook for themselves is an act of love...

Something that you wouldn't do or have everyday. I tend to go for the really rich, dark chocolate brownies. Good for afternoon treat or pudding!

everyone in my family loves a meaty beef or lamb stew with dumplings with heaps of mashed potatoes

Homemade pizza from scratch... We have pizza and movie night every Sunday, DD always gets to choose the movie and we snuggle up on the sofa and watch it together. I'm hoping it stays a tradition right through the teenage years!!

My favourite dish to cook for family is Macaroni Mince. Which is made in a large casserole just like lasagne but with macaroni. Lots and lots of cheese on top. Everyone loves it and there's plenty for everyone.

I mainly dabble with cake baking, lots of carrot and fruit variations, but I also make lots of different breads, biscuits and brownies, I give most of my bakes away to friends and family, brownie slabs are a great size for posting !

Especially in the winter months, because they love it so much, I regularly make Beef Stew and Dumplings in the slow cooker!

I cook all my family's special dishes on their birthdays for a start and their favourite dishes all time - a curry for the husband, Laska noodles for the eldest and pasta for the other two younger ones.
Our family favourite has to be dessert - all sorts from Portuguese Pastel De Nata to custard to Red Velvet cake - the list goes on.

You can eat it just as it is or with a baked potato or rice.

The final result!

My most loved recipe is one my mother made up when I was a baby (many moons ago) and which has been passed down the generations. They were very hard up (my DF was still a student at the time) so she really had to make all food go as far as possible. It's called 'cheesy dish' and includes sliced potatoes layered with friend onion and bacon (repeat X 2 or X3) then covered with a thick cheese sauce and rashers of bacon. It's soul food British style and particularly warming in winter months!

I cook lasagne as everyone loves it in my family. Also I make a yummy fish pie which everyone eats too.

I have a HATE for Baked Beans that could end the world. The tomato sauce, the smushy bean. The kind of hate that makes me scream and run for the tap if a drop of juice touches my skin and me gag and heave when the smell hits my nose.
But oh my little girls love their baked beans. So I power through and open those tins anyway.
For me, that's the most loving thing I do in the kitchen. Everything else I cook is actually fun for me 😂

I cook healthy food for my family. I don't buy ready made sauces full of who knows what and I always look for a whole grain, low sugar alternatives. My kids moan, but I'm hoping in the long run, they will realise how much of my love for them goes into what is on their plates.

We all love haggis! Not that I cook it from scratch...

The whole family will be here next weekend & I'm going to try Delia's haggis pie - basically haggis neeps & tatties in layers, like a cottage pie, so easy to scale up.

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/collections/perfect-pies/haggis-pie-with-tatties-and-neeps-and-whisky-sauce

Though I'll probably skip the whisky sauce in deference to junior tastebuds.

When I can't be bothered to cook a Sunday roast I make a big shepherds pie, as it is a family favourite here, served with fresh runner beans and a big bowl of roast potatoes on the side. I know that's double potatoes but we love them!!

I make different casseroles, soups and bolognese. All my family's favourites! And I always make extra for those days I'm at work and I just have time to heat something up in the evening. I also make cakes and biscuits!