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 dad used to strip the Sunday roast chicken and make a curry for tea the night after that was absolutely amazing. I never knew how he did it other than curry powder, apples and sultanas but I really wish I’d made him write it down before he died.

A bowl of muesli and milk. It was the only thing she could provide that wasn't welded to the arse of her non non stick pans.

Spaghetti bolognese with grated cheese on top and a fish pie with prawns and scallops and about four different types of white fish.

My maternal Gran was an amazing cook. Yorkshire puddings with herbs through them and gravy. Apple dumplings. Fried potatoes with crispy bacon bits and cheese.

We're going to be having a lot of the latter because for some reason I've got loads of potatoes and I just found several packs of bacon at the bottom of the chest freezer that I'd obviously forgotten about.

My mum was never a great cook but I loved my nan's roast dinners and puddings and my grandad's egg and chips.

Pea and ham soup made in a pressure cooker. Liver and gravy. Christmas dinner (complete with mushy peas). Harriet hedgehog birthday cakes when we were little

Macaroni Cheese.

Beef stew,just meat,carrots and potatoes,have never been able to cook one as good .

My Gran raised me and my two siblings and she made the most amazing beef stew - it got better after the first day and had a chance to thicken - I asked her so many times to write down or show me how to make it but she shrugged each time and basically admitted to winging it most of the time it’s my mission to recreate that stew one day! I’ve gotten close a few times but not quite there yet.

My Grandfather rarely cooked but when hung over enough (not great I know) he’d make the most amazing full English fry up.

My Mum... not the most adventurous or exciting cook (she admits this) but I have fond memories of spending some summers with her and she made a great spaghetti bolognese

Semolina with a blob of jam.

Cottage pie and rice pudding with jam on the table so you could stir some in yourself. Beautiful.

Oh goodness my mother was/is a terrible cook.

I was born in the late 70s and she fully embraced all of the convenience foods which adorned our corner shop shelves not long after. Find us crispy pancakes hold a fond place in my memory.

She used to make a chicken casserole thing which had more bones than meat. I will never forget that delight!

Plus points: she was very good, randomly, at pea and ham soup. Her mom, my grandma was an excellent cook. I railed against my mother so much so that I became a chef. Winner, winner, bony chicken casserole dinner!

Stew
Rice pudding (we used to fight over the skin)
Rhubarb crumble

My mum made wonderful roasts and lemon meringue pie. My dad made great jam, pickled onions, piccalilli and chutney, and the most amazing pork pie at Christmas. I miss them both, and their cooking.

My mum is not blessed in the cooking department... however my nan did delicious roasts and made lovely cupcakes 😊

Findus crispy pancakes was a real treat.

My mother never cooked a roast dinner, closest we came to that was a Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie out of a tin.
I first tasted roast beef and yorkshire pudding when I was 13- at a friend's house.
I would save up my pocket money so I could make myself a Vesta curry when I was 10 or so.
Othewise Saturday night dinner would be Pek chopped pork from a tin, slices, heated up tinned new potatoes and tinned garden peas.

Maybe a can of rice pudding for dessert if we were lucky, with tinned peaches.

There are two cakes my mum used to make. One was called caraque - it was a dense chocolate cake that had a sugary crust on top - that was the cake that dsis and I chose, almost every time, as our birthday cakes.

She also made a sort of shortbread layer cake, which I didn’t appreciate at the time, but would love now. It was a full size cake for cutting, but made of three layers of a shortbread style biscuit (maybe something like the Scottish Empire biscuit), layered together with raspberry jam, with glace icing.

My gran used to make potato fritters. Thin slices of potato dipped in a light as air batter and deep-fried. Me and my mum have tried to replicate them many times over the years but we can't get them like hers!

My mum has always done the best roasties. She HAS to do them every Christmas because the rest of us simply can't do it the way she does. She also introduced me to pasta, tomato soup and cheese as a meal as a kid and I still have it often as comfort food

My mom makes the most amazing chocolate fudge cake. She’s got better over recent years but growing up we ate mostly freezer food or food from jars, the only thing she ever made from scratch was the chocolate fudge cake.

My grandparents used to make us egg and proper chips with homemade bread. And fried potatoes with breakfast every time we had a sleep over. My grandma used to make millionaires shortbread with me, we tested a different recipe every time she looked after me until she perfected it. I’ve not thought about that for a long time but I’m now really hoping her falling apart recipe book is still in my grandpas pantry and I’ll be able to make the shortbread with DS when all of this is over!

Spicy potato wedges!! Yum 😋

Dad makes a lovely leek and potato soup 🍜

The other thing my mum does par excellence is Yorkshire pudding and Toad-in-the-hole - hers rises beautifully and is crispy and delicious. No matter what I do, mine just will not rise as well as hers.

Wouldn't this be a gorgeous compilation of 'Mum's Recipes'?

I would love the recipes of many of these.

My Mum makes a lovely Russian dessert - Malacoff - very boozy, cream, rum, sugar and those boudoir biscuits. No cooking and it's fabulous!

Many of the above plus

Shepherds pie,
bobotie (South African dish}
Cut and come again (cake)

my mum is an awful cook, but MIL is incredible. Her lasagne's are out of this world, along with her chocolate fondant desserts....

Oh how I miss her cooking now we are isolated!

Not a great cook, to be fair, but she made a very tasty rice salad that I’ve never been able to replicate. It’s always a sticky mess when I try it.

”Wouldn't this be a gorgeous compilation of 'Mum's Recipes'?”

Definitely, @LyingWitchInTheWardrobe - I’d love the recipe for that dessert, please!