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

Stovies
Deep fried in lard, battered fish with homemade chips.
Breadcrumbed haddock fillets, boiled potatoes and cold tinned beans.

My mum cannot cook at all. A tin of soup cooked by her would be both burnt and undercooked. Quite a skill.
Her food hygiene was terrible. I have an iron stomach as a result

It's very simple, @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius, simple enough for me to do it anyway .

INGREDIENTS:
2 packs of boudoir fingers (those ones with sugar on one side)
1 pint whipping cream whipped into firm peaks, sweetened with a tablespoon of sugar
About half a pint of milk, any sort (but skimmed won't save you!)
Rum - depends how much you like but I use about half a wine glass full

METHOD:

1. Pour the Rum and milk into a flattish bowl for soaking the boudoir fingers.
2. Put about six fingers into the milk rum mixture, leave for about half a minute that take out and turn them over back into the mixture.
3. Take those out and plonk them into a serving dish.
4. Keep doing that until you have a layer of them.
5. Take a palette knife or spatula and spread those with cream.

Keep doing 2-5 until you have a delicious cream covered mound then cover it with clingfilm and put in the fridge to chill.

If you need more rum, milk, whipped cream to your taste then just do it - this is a very forgiving recipe and it doesn't matter if the fingers break. You want them soaked but not saturated. That said, better a bit wet than a bit dry.

You can use any spirit you want in place of Rum... the proper Russian version uses Vodka.

My mum was famous for her pastry and used to make apple and blackberry pies - but I hate pastry!
She made a fantastic chicken curry, a scrummy tarragon chicken, her coronation chicken was the perfect summer lunch and her Christmas turkey and stuffing always sublime. Even her creme caramel was in league of it's own.
But her Christmas cake had no equal. She wasn't up to making it as my wedding cake, which I was very sad about.
Gosh I really miss her cooking.

My mum makes the best lasagne and the best rice pudding.

My mum died 12 years ago but she used to make Tater Hash (northern) and Rice Pudding with nutmeg sprinkled on top.

My mum used to make the most amazing pork chops.

My dad used to make a mean chicken fricassee, with baby onions it and lashings of cream and white wine in it.

My DM made a coffee meringue with tangerine segments and tangerine flavoured cream. Just slightly warm and gooey in the middle of the meringue.

As a child, it was the ultimate birthday dessert.

Meatloaf/meatballs (although I no longer eat meat they are one thing I really miss!)
Fish soup
Mince pies
Coleslaw
Olive bread

No my mum would often burn peas.

However before all of that she made a really good Sri Lankan style curry.

Thank you, @LyingWitchInTheWardrobe - I will definitely be making that!

Mine was shit at cooking, only made one dish us kids liked, strangely I've made it today.

Cheese Hot

Potato's diced
Onion
Leeks
Mature cheddar
Cornflour

Best made in a deep frying pan

Cover the diced potatoes and onion with water, cook for approximately 10 mins, add the leeks for about 5 mins, drain off an excess water, you just need enough to cover the veg, thicken with a tablespoon of cornflour mixed with a little water, stir until mixture thickens. Add loads of grated mature cheese and let it melt in. Lovely with a french stick

My mums shepherds pie is amazing, despite being super basic no one makes it quite like hers.

My dad was the king of cheese omelettes especially when I was poorly! Still get him to make me them now if I'm there or he is here!

My old mum, (sadly now dead), used to cook for us kids-
Corned Beef fritters
and
Spam fritters.
I still like the corned beef fritters, but my modern wife will not cook them.
As for Spam...………I think that was a mistake.
So also a mistake was "Bubble and Squeak". And "Mince and onions and potatoes"
Looking back, I think (reluctantly) my old mum's recipes were dreadful.
She was brought up during WWII. Thank goodness she never made "Woolton Pie" or that whale thing called "Snook", (or something like that).
If I had asked her to make any meal with, say, garlic, in it, she would have thought I was mad.

My mum is a fantastic bread baker. Whenever she made a batch of fresh bread she’d roll some out and use it as a pizza base for us kids; it was always gorgeous! I spoke to her on the phone just now and she’s made fresh bread, pizza and scones today.

Lovely idea for a thread...
My mum was a fabulous cook. Lots of Mediterranean and Turkish food...
Loads of garlic, vegetables, olive oil, fresh fish.
We always chatted when she cooked, it was precious time together.
I picked up a lot of cooking tips although never 'taught' I grew up to be a pretty awesome cook myself too

my gran's cooking was traditional but ace
potted beef
breaded haddock,fried with boiled tatties and peas
mince and tatties
millionaires shortbread
macaroons
victoria sponge with jam and cream
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Spaghetti bolognaise

Chicken soup

Beef stew

Coffee cake

Lentil dahl

My dad however, makes the best shepherds pie on the planet. Fact.

Her fish pie, my daughter requested this for her birthday every year until she turned veggie at 15.

My maw makes the best stovies in the world

Everything. My mum is an amazing cook and I so wish I could be as good! I'm a good cook, but she always seems to add that bit of extra taste (being extremely wealthy and not having to worry about buying food must help!)

My dad was a meat and two veg plus a good pudding man, plus mum was on a budget, so we grew up on liver with onion gravy, neck of lamb stew, stuffed breast of lamb, steak and kidney pudding, and then lemon meringue pie, treacle tart, queen of puddings.

If dad was working away she could experiment with 1970s style curries (with apples and sultanas) and we were treated to a Ski yoghurt or Angel Delight.

I remember a uni lecturer trying to explain fossil fish muscle structure with reference to poached or smoked salmon and we all just looked at him blankly - surely salmon came from a tin on special Sundays?

My mum is firmly in the inventive cook / baker category.
She's made some delightful things but also went through a phase of using whatever she found in the fridge to substitute virtually an entire recipe.
A particularly horrific incident was a stuffed marrow instead of stuffed peppers, with tinned Dahl as she had no lentils and blue cheese on the top of a shepherds pie.
She makes a delicious chocolate cake and wonderful jam tarts. She also makes a truly horrific vegetable cannelloni using tinned veg soup.
It's hit or miss if she's feeling inventive we usually miss 🤣

My mum used to make the best roast dinners,
casserole, home made pizza, liver and bacon, (although I only ate the gravy) mince beef cobbler, bacon bone soup, apple crumble, baked apples with raisins and honey in the middle, and farmhouse pie, which is a layer of sausage meat (no skins) sprinkled with herbs, a layer of fresh chopped toms, a layer of cheese and a layer of mash - try it you won’t be disappointed!! 😁