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

This thread is really nice to remember and smile at the meals my mum used to cook, thank you

Both my parents were keen cooks, they would buy a cookbook and have a big craze. Can’t find several of those books now, wish I knew where they were! Favs were:
Chicken burgers with mango chutney
An Asian fish dish with blackened peanuts on top
A middle eastern dish called rishta which is layers of fried eggplant, Passata, fresh pasta, hard boiled eggs and cheese
A meatloaf called hokoboken that was a recipe from my grandma
Dad also made the best scrambled eggs and a mean chicken sandwich.

Mum also made a wonderful steak and kidney pie, she would save some of the filling and serve it in toast for breakfast the next day- another trick of my granny’s. Heaven.

Probably Irish stew but dm isn't a great cook! Dgm made the most amazing vegetable soup though

To those wanting to recreate beef stews of the past, I found a recipe which produces a very passable version. I make mine in the slow cooker but could do it as a cassarole of the stove/oven as well.
Beef (I use chuck steak)
Onions, garlic
Mushrooms
Carrot
Celery
Rasher of bacon
Can of beer
Teaspoon Good smoked paprika
Tablespoon tomato paste
Stock.
Brown the beef, add the bacon and veges and sprinkle over a tablespoon or two of flour after cooking veges 2-4 minutes. Slowly add the beer and stock. Stir through the paprika and tomato paste, cover and cook 4 hours of using the stove, 8 or more in the slow cooker. Can have in its own or with rice/mash/crusty French bread.

My mum made a mean rice pudding. She also did a great pot roast with Guinness and chunky veg. Her stuffed steak was to die for. Loved her stuffing but one of my childhood memories is of boiled bacon ribs with boiled onions. Served with boiled potatoes in their jackets and cabbage. Not sure if you can get bacon ribs now. Also loved liver and bacon. Can probably tell my age by these.

This is a good thread!
Meat and potato pie (lovely pastry)
Rice pudding
Lancashire hotpot
Cheese & potato cakes
Little bakewell tarts - very fiddly to make and always delicious!
A sort of bacon, onion & potato layer casserole - all cut thin (the onions in rings and potatoes in thin slices) then covered with stock, herbs etc and baked - I've only recently managed to replicate it.
She died last year and we still miss her a lot.

My mum is a terrible cook and is an incredibly fussy eater. She won't try anything new and doesn't like to add any herbs, spices or seasoning to her food apart from a bucketful of salt to the overboiled veg and potatoes. As a resort of this there were only a few meals that I actually looked forward to: either chips & fried egg with garden peas or potato pie which was just boiled spuds covered in pastry (that was the vegetation version of her meat and potato pie which had corned beef in it) served with veg. I love pastry even now!

My mum makes the best toad in the hole...and her fry up was the best. She always used to make our birthday cakes and would go to so much effort!

Dad was good on the grill but it's a pan of Mum's scouse that I miss the most. I make it at home but I just cannot reproduce hers.

Scouse here too as above, I can't get it to taste as good.

Mums lamb chops are still the best thing ever

My mum used to make lamb’s heart casserole - we got a whole heart each, stuffed with sage and onion, and casseroled with onions and carrots. It was very tasty and a biology lesson too!

I’m so lucky in this department my mother is a great cook. Stews, meat pies, full roast dinners, homemade chips, chutneys, relishes.. with everything made from scratch. She is an even better baker, cakes, tarts, Lemon meringue pies, puddings, cheesecake...there is nothing that woman can’t make. As a surprise for her birthday I’m putting together a book containing a collection of her favourite recipes, hopefully she’ll like it.

Burnt anything.

Probably why I love BBQs so much

My mum is (was) a diabolical cook. She once reheated some meatballs that were so inedible, we had a chippy tea instead.

One of my childhood faves was a Findus crispy pancake, that's how bad it was.

BUT she made something called a lamb fricasse- no Idea what it was but was divine.

And a family fruit cake that was much lighter than normal fruit cake. Must get the recipe.

In my house, Dad did the cooking and Mum did the DIY. Which was quite something in the 80s.

Gosh I LOVED Findus crispy pancakes....

My grandma made the most incredible beef in red wine casserole. I must make some soon! The smell of her pantry was full of spices & baking. The smell of simnel cake would linger for ages.

Yum

Egg and chips and corned beef hash - lovely

Any vegetables would have to be boiled or steamed (I hated that steamer) for at least 2 hours, not nice

My Ma makes a lovely roast and the best chips. When we are free to meet up after Corona she will be doing me sausage, egg and chips.

My Pa always made a lovely omelette. Just right.

My mum was not a good cook. She did make this layered cheese, onion and potato bake though that I loved. I made one last night.

Apple crumble

Meal - Toad in the hole, no one makes a giant yorkie pud like my mum

Pudding - lemon drizzle cake, its just perfect!!

My mum is still a great cook, one of my absolute favs of my 80s childhood was something she called "Swedish chicken", which was a cold chicken dish, with chopped red and green apples, chopped banana and a curried mayo/cream sauce. She served it with hot basmati rice and it was divine.

My DH loved coming to mine for Sunday dinner when we were dating in uni, mum would feed us these huge feasts of lentil soup, followed by a chicken roast with about 7 varieties of veg on the side and then a home made pudding and a cheeseboard! It's partly why I never moved out for uni

My nan used to serve the best homemade fish and chips in newspaper, God bless her. My mum is the best cook ever and I have so many favourite dishes of hers but if I had to choose my last meal on earth it would be her chicken biriyani. My mil makes the best kebabs on earth, they are delicious and she always gets my dh to pick them up from hers enroute to home when I am ill to cheer me up.

My mum is a horrible cook but weirdly she used to make a scone base pizza and it was lovely! I make homemade pizza all the time with a proper homemade pizza dough but always miss her strange but delicious concoction.