What were the favourite things your mum cooked?

[Caramel78]

Is/was your mum a good cook and what are the best things she makes?
Mine does the best lentil soup and apple crumble. Never tasted anyone do them better

My granny was a good cook - I loved her soup (sort of chicken and barley broth) and her date and walnut loaf. My auntie as well, I used to go and see her and she'd send me home with a tin of unbaked shortbread to take to my mother. "Even she can't burn shortbread." They were feckers my granny and my auntie, they sort of had this thing that you could either cook or you couldn't, and my mother was one of the ones that couldn't. But I must say I would have eaten dinner at theirs over my mother's any day

Not to be that person, but my mum can't cook. My dad, however, makes really nice pies. My husband is also the one who cooks in this house, unless you count my specialty, fish fingers.

My Mum did the best chips ever.

My dad did the best chips, and chicken in mushroom sauce. And no one does a bacon sarnie like dads. Sounds simple but honestly - that bacon sandwich was epic

Mum (passed away last Easter aged 93), was a good cook but better at baking. My favourites of hers were
Soda bread
Potato cakes
Christmas cake & Christmas pudding
Dundee cake
Our birthday cakes
Rice pudding
Steamed suet puddings

Chicken cobbler drools

Chinese takeaway. My mum is not blessed in the cookery department.

MiL makes a mean mince and onion plait though, and a nice chocolate cake.

My mum doesn't really cook anymore, but she used to make an amazing spinach and ricotta cannelloni.

She's an amazing baker of sweet things too - her meringues in particular are famous - but unfortunately I've never had much of a sweet tooth so they're rather wasted on me.

My mum was and still is a rubbish cook but she's used to make a lovely large egg custard tart

My mum is/was a great cook. But it's definitely the sweet things that stand out - all sorts of cookies, and old-school puddings like baked rice pudding, syrup sponge etc.

Oh and I've never managed to get pork crackling anywhere near as good as she did 😊

Oh dear. . .

Whitebait patties (whitebait are very different creatures in NZ to here!)
Scallops mornay
Chili con carne
Homemade vegetable soup
Fish pie
Braised steak
Corned beef, mustard sauce and jigs
Victoria Sponge
Cinammon oysters
Golden Steamed pudding
Apple Pie
Salmon loaf

I prefer my maccy cheese though. . .

Oh she was a really dreadful cook.
Grey boiled meat, tough and fatty served in an inch of tepid water, hard boiled potatoes, mushy over cooked veg.
Most food was out of a tin or a packet.
Stuffing served with christmas dinner was the Paxo stuff out of a packet, I grew up thinking is was a sauce, it could be poured, and had hard bits in it.
To this day I can't stand the smell of sage.

When I started secondary school and had to have school lunches I was in food heaven!

I taught myself to cook from scratch.

My Mother was the Queen of Yorkshire Puddings! She used to serve them with gravy as a first course when we were having beef as the Sunday roast. A plateful of crunchy melting deliciousness!

Other things she did well were a rich slow cooked beef and tomato stew that was served with spaghetti, and mince and onions with crunchy topped dumplings.

She also made a fantastic Waterzooi, a Flemish chicken stew with the sauce enriched with cream and egg yolks. My Father was Flemish, so that was his treat on high days and holidays!

Braised oxtail to die for

An amazing beef curry which I've never been able to replicate, and DM can't remember the recipe. DM was always a good cook, but that's the one that stands out.

My mum made the most amazing met and potato hotpot, with a thick pastry crust. Served with red cabbage . Yum

My dad's sweet and sour fish with noodles. He lived in Hong Kong for a year and a friend taught him. Heaven, no MSG, and the sauce was so much better than any take away.

Corned beef hash
Stovies
Oxtail soup
Tattie/veg/scotch broth soup
Pressed ox tongue from scratch.
Her mince and tatties was the best ever.

Cakes and biscuits.

Stew and dumplings.
Steamed puddings.
Rice pudding

I am hungry now!

My mum is a terrible cook and so am I. Thankfully I'm willing to admit my limitations and rely on M&S.

My favourite meal when I was younger was a frozen Birdseye chicken burger with a slice of raw onion, slice of tomato and mayo.

My mum doesn't really cook, I can't remember what she used to feed me before I was 10, when she met my stepdad who is a keen cook! Actually seeing @leghairdontcare mention Birdseye, I remember her buying Birdseye chicken chargrills and they were my bloody favourite!

Not so struck on the salty gravy but her egg custard was sublime. Now if we talking chips- my dad grew and cooked his own potatoes - delicious!

My dad was the better cook and favourites were:-
Chicken curry
Chicken bits in breadcrumbs
Bacon and egg spaghetti
Macaroni cheese
A made up recipe called Carabush which he unfortunately took to the grave with him.

My DM is an amazing cook, her seafood spaghetti was always my absolute favourite though.

It was mostly my Dad who did the cooking, mum could cook but she worked fulltime with a long commute and he worked shifts. I loved his spag bol, mixed grill, stew and dumplings, and roasts. He was also one for experimenting - we had Cornish pasties once with jam on one side and meat on the other, "like the miners used to have".
I do remember Mum doing a lovely meat pie quite often when I was little, with what we called "melt in the mouth meat" (stewing steak cooked a long time!) and amazing pastry.