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.

Chocolate cake

Nothing here as well. Hideous cook. For a roast dinner she will put all the veg on to cook at the same time as the meat. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Bizarrely though she refuses to let anyone else cook, despite saying how much she hates cooking.

Christmas dinner, turkey curry and lemon meringue pie. Hoping for the latter tomorrow as she’s having a party.

My mum makes an amazing teddy bear chocolate cake and coffee cake.
Despite my Gran teaching everyone in my family to cook no one makes roast potatoes like she did 🤤

Beef casserole. I can never get mine to taste as good as hers do.

My Mum is an amazing cook, and I never thought I'd be able to match her. I'm getting there, though, and my pavlova is better. That's quite a Big Thing for a Kiwi.

Her scones are outstanding!

Macaroni Cheese,could smell it down the road.

Beef Casserole,just meat,carrot and onion.

My MIL on the other hand! Only went there once for Christmas Dimner,mashed potatoes,still waiting for the roasts 45 years later!

Everything.

But her Bubble and Squesk is legendary. I have a suspicion that DH only married me because of it.
Scotch eggs
DS will only eat “ grannies chips”. As good as any chip shop and she doesn’t even have a deep fat fryer. .

My mother cooked the best chicken curry, which she served with freshly grated coconut, sliced banana, onions and peanuts. It was green and had sultanas. No idea where she got the recipe.
Her coronation chicken was amazing.
But best of all and my ‘last meal on earth’ was her Christmas dinner. Two different stuffings,bread sauce, cranberry sauce, moist turkey, beans, sweet potato, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, bread sauce, roast potatoes...and then her Christmas cake! Practically all fruit with thick covering of marzipan and royal icing... sadly later on in life she lost her desire to cook and eat. But still remember every bite of her fabulous cooking..

Beef stew and dumplings.
Roast potatoes cooked in lamb fat...although mine are crispier

Danish apple cake
Chocolate sponge cake
Steamed syrup pudding

Despite being a vegetarian, her beef stew and chicken soup are second to none.

Her cakes are incredible, light and airy sponges, velvety rich chocolate cake, gooey sticky brownies, moist and nutty carrot cake, coffee cake that is quite possibly the best thing I've ever eaten. She also quite strangely doesn't like cake.

Her Italian food is amazing too, so much so that an Italian friend of mine in school said my mum's bolognaise sauce was better than his mum's (but not to tell anyone or he'd be in trouble). His mums food was also pretty delicious mind you.

My mum is an incredible cook. She's better than me and I'm a chef. But she learned from my granny who's food is somewhat legendary.

Roast potatoes... I follow her method exactly, but they are never as good as hers!! Proper meat gravy too. Yum!

My mum does amazing pancakes. Feel really mean saying this but the ones that DH makes are really thick and not that great but hers are divine. I could easily eat 4 in one sitting with loads of lemon and sugar.

My mum's steak and kidney pudding! I've tried to recreate but don't have the magic touch it would seem

Sauerbraten and knödel. Best ever - she died 7 years ago and haven't had it since. Really miss it.

Everything.
Tandoori chicken
Roast dinner
Prawn & potato curry
Chicken curry
Ackee & saltfish
Chicken soup
Lentil soup
Cake
Gateux
Etc etc etc

All delicious.

Roast, crumble, chicken curry, liver and bacon... Oddly both me and my cousin think she does the best salads she's only assembling ready made ingredients but just does it in the exact right quantities so every bite is enjoyable to the end

Roast dinner. Lasagne. Shepherds Pie. Pretty much everything actually.. she’s the best cook I know and is the family go to for parties etc, and Christmas. I wish my roast potatoes would be as good as hers!

Macaroni cheese. Tbf she is a pretty bad cook and that’s about all she can cook well! My dad is the better cook. His homemade chips are the best!

Nothing here too!

But I love eating her food anyway because I love her company!

If you ask DS - almost everything! I think my mum's lasagne is the best. And her roast dinners. In fact I only ever eat roasts that either she or I have made. I never have a roast while out because they are always disappointing.

Everything! Except custard. Her banana bread, all baking, Yorkshire puds etc are beyond compare.

Nowadays she's given up baking and is even buying jar sauces! Just not the same

Also my great aunt made an amazing ham sandwich, it's so strange that anyone can add a personal touch to something so simple

My Mum makes the most fabulous meat and potato pie, also some fried cheesy eggy rice cake things which are a bit like arancini while simultaneously being nothing like arancini.

My Dad's cheese and onion pie for Saturday tea.

My Granny's egg, chips and peas on a Monday. Chips from a chip pan, egg fried in lard so the edges go crispy, frozen peas.

My Grandpa's bonfire toffee. Sadly he kept the recipe in his head so it died with him.

Cheese scones
Macaroni cheese
Bubble & squeak