What did/does your Mum cook better than anyone else?

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Feeling wistful about my Mum's chicken curry - it looked like a strange green lumpy mess, but tasted divine!

And her apple crumble... she put semolina in it for extra crunch.... mmm.

Roast dinner. Everything else was terrible.

Apple pie. Her pastry is like no other.

Welsh cakes. But to be fair, that’s true of every Welsh person’s mum!

Lasagne

I had to google Welsh cakes... now I want some

Roast potatoes with duck fat so good! There was a macaroni and cheese battle in our family but my grans is still the best. My mums isn’t saucy enough :p

Food. Seriously there is nothing my mum can't cook to perfection. Cowbag 😁.

@YesItsMeIDontCare so, no pressure on you then?

Nothing. She overcooks everything, grey chewy meat, sloppy mushy vegetables and no seasoning in anything.
Actually, That's being cruel, once she made an apple pie which was passable :D

Nothing. She was / is a shocking cook. No interest in food and doesn’t understand why anyone would want to eat things with a sauce / gravy.

I’ve done Christmas dinner (a meal she hates) since I was 17 years old.

@FlamedToACrisp You should make some, they're v easy! I did once & I hate baking, but they were lush

Spag bol, Chilli and a Sunday roast they were my favourite.

Even when I flew the nest and was working and partying, I would get a text that she had made one of these dinners, and my portion was in the fridge.

So Regularly let myself in at 5am and ate the spag bol pissed

Roast, spag bol and lamb tagines 😍

A roast dinner, but especially the gravy.

Goulash. I could eat some now.

My mum can't cook- never does.
But there's nothing better than her cup of tea ( it's probably the company that makes that special) :)

Nothing her cooking was dreadful, she said to me when she was in her 90s “do you ever look back in your childhood dear and think what appalling food you were given” .

Sunday lunch was memorable .... gravy so thick you had to spoon it out and scrape it off the roof of your mouth. Pudding was a mr Kipling bakewell tart which for reasons my brother and I will never understand, mum would shove under the grill to blacken the icing before serving.

Scrambled eggs. Everything else is a bit meh, TBH.

Another with a mum who can’t cook. Everything comes from a packet. My childhood was a sea of frozen orange foods.
Hence I now cook as much as I can from nothing. I try not to use packets or jars and add flavour where I can. I am not a brilliant cook but definitely improved on my mother’s cooking.

I left home thinking it was normal to put veg on to boil for Sunday lunch at 7am

@BigSandyBalls2015 when the gravy was too thick we used to quote from Tony Hancock: "I thought my mother was a bad cook, but at least her gravy moved about!"

Loved her japanese curry, and oven chicken with chestnuts or potatoes.

Oh my poor mum, her potato salad is pretty good but mine is better that's pretty much it. She makes up for it in personality and enthusiasm

My dad makes the best gravy

Lasagne. Most other meals were/ average but her lasagne is amazing. So is my mils lasagne but I'm terrible at it

Scones and lemon drizzle cake. She also did a good chicken curry, mild and fruity. Fab Christmas dinner too. We would always have a running buffet if there was any big event on the TV, a habit I have forced on to my DH (his family would ignore anything like that )

My cousins will stampede for one nan's apple pie.