Tell Tefal about your Mum’s best evening meals - win a digital cooker worth over £300! NOW CLOSED

[AmeliaMumsnet]

Many of us look back longingly at our Mums’ home cooking but, with full-time jobs and busy lifestyles not to mention that take-away restaurant just around the corner it can be hard to get your own cooking up to her standards. That’s why Tefal want to know about the best things your Mum used to make for you on weeknights - that you wish you had the skills, confidence and time to cook for your family.

Here’s what Tefal have to say: ‘You don’t need to be a masterchef to achieve delicious meals in no time! Tefal have innovated again, and now give you Cook4Me.

Cook4Me is a one-pot digital cooker, ideal for mums looking to make fast and fresh meals. It is easy to use and intuitive: Cook4Me comes with 50 built-in recipes, and features a digital screen with guided cooking steps. Cook4Me cooks under pressure, which means you will save a lot of time. For example, after browning and pre-heating, it cooks a Chicken Tikka Masala in 3 minutes, a Thai Green Chicken curry in 4 minutes and a Risotto in 9 minutes (and no need to stir!)… It is the ideal all-in-one cooker, with up to 6 cooking manual modes: not only does it pressure cook, but it also steams, browns, simmers, gentle-cooks and automatically keeps your food warm. Its dishwasher-safe bowl can feed 6 people, perfect for the whole family or for batch-cooking.

Cook4Me comes in a standard version, with 50 built-in recipes, and in a Connected version, that works with My Cook4Me app, giving access to over 100 recipes.

You can use this link to purchase a Cook4Me of your own, at a fantastic 50% off retail price.’

Whether it’s a signature risotto, a flavoursome curry or the classic chili con carne, post on the thread below your Mum’s best dishes that you wish you could replicate. Everyone who posts will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will be randomly selected to win a Cook4Me.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw.

MNHQ

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My Mum was a demon at pies! We used to have an amazing mince beef pie for a main course and then apple pies from our own tree for dessert (not in the same meal I hasten to add - that would be pastry overload!)

I wish I could match my Mum's lamb stew but I can never come close!

Her vegetable moussaka! So cheesy and delicious, I have tried to follow her recipe step by step but it's never the same!

She used the make the most amazing Corned beef hash which I've tried to make but it's never like hers.

Also chicken tandoori which considering it was the early 80s and we lived in a rural area I think was quite adventurous. It was luminous red and I still dream of it.

My mum and dad shared the cooking when I was growing up. My dad's best week day dish was Chinese style curry, but most memorable is that on new year's Eve he would do a roast duck with those thin pancakes and all the trimmings. My mum was more of the baker/desert maker. She did an amazing rice pudding, apple pie and Victoria sponge cake.

My grandmother made the best plate pies, I'd just love to be able to recreate her original recipe, the pastry is something I've never been able to get right!

My mum's bolognese is the best - the chicken stuffed with allbran she used to make when on a diet not so much lol!

My favourite dish she used to make was 'that crisp thing we have with garlic bread' - leftover chicken from a roast (not sure how there were ever leftovers with 6 kids) with peas in a cheese sauce, topped with ready salted crisps and a layer of grated cheese - cooked in the oven until as hot as lava and served with garlic bread. Mine never comes out as well as hers!

My mum and dad came back from a trip to London when I was very young and told me about a new, exotic dish they'd tried that seemed too delicious to be true. The type of deep-fried delight I loved as a kid, my mum set about making it for my sister and I. There was mixing, chopping, freezing, dunking, frying and swearing going on in the kitchen as she stabbed herself with cocktail sticks and bashed meat with a rolling pin. And there it was in its crispy, garlicky glory.... chicken Kiev.
I laugh when I think about the torment she went through to hand-make something you now get in Iceland for 99p but in darkest Glasgow in the 70s it was a thing of wonder and extreme poshness. Happy days!

My Mum's Beef and gravy pies. I used to help her roll the pastry and make pastry decorations. I've tried to duplicate them, but Mum's is the best.

My mum used to make fantastic kebabs with barbecue sauce. We had them with lovely fluffy mash I'm not sure ethnically where that dinner would be from, maybe it was an 80s fusion food Whatever, it was unique and totally delicious!

Coronation chicken - always a hit with the family. Makes it so well - prize dish - well done mum.

Steak diane, beef stroganoff and coq au vin - and the most amazing roast potatoes ever. I've never been able to adequately replicate any of them.

My mum's mince and tatties, proper Ayrshire potatoes with butter and chives. Yum!

My mums chicken curry. She is a vegetarian but somehow managed to make and still makes the best chicken curry in the world. Nothing was ever measured out. She is magic in the kitchen.

My mum makes the BEST macaroni cheese. I have 2 children of my own and another on the way and she still won't tell me the recipe she uses!!

My mum makes amazing lasagne - can't quite get the same taste as hers, but had loads of fun trying!!

My dad makes a really mean chicken pasta, with chorizo on top, another thing I can't quite make as tasty as he does!!

Minced beef and onion pie, mash, gravy, carrots. Perfect after walking home from school in the dark and rain at half past three!

How she made the pastry from scratch whilst doing everything else I don't know. And honestly, I have never tasted pastry like it. It's a true art.

My mum was and always has been the worst cook on the planet; we used to dread when my dad worked away as we'd end up with fish fingers that were burnt on the outside and frozen in the middle!

So my dad did (and still does, to the point he has to leave pre-made meals for my mum when he works away with instructions on what to do with them and she still struggles!) all of the cooking and makes the best roast dinner with all of the trimmings, his stuffing and roast potatoes are out of this world.

Her lovely shepherd's pie, with forked through ripples on the top of it, though as it was made with beef mince, I guess that it was really a cottage pie!

My Mum's stew was to die for! We didn't have a lot of money when we were young but my Mum always managed to make a big pot of stew to feed all five of us DC and all the children from our avenue. I can taste it now 😍

Also once a month my Dad would make his 'curry'. He'd lock himself in the kitchen for the whole day and the result would absolutely delicious 😋

My favourite ever childhood meal though was my Dad's 'concoction' which consisted of all the remains of our Sunday dinner dried up in a pan with secret ingredients added, the ultimate comfort food.

Simple mince beef and onions with mashed potato. I just cannot get mine to taste like hers!

My mother makes THE most delicious scrambled eggs. It's not an ingredient 'thing', but more a timing one. Her macaroni cheese and sausages were our favourite 'Last Meal Before Going Back To School'.

Meanwhile my Dad was a champion soup maker. He'd strip carcasses from lunch, and Sunday evenings always smelt of stock! I hate throwing away left over chicken bones, but I don't have anything to cook them in atm. One day, I hope to get back into making them again. They're so cheap and nutritious.

My mother is no longer with us but memories of some of her culinary delights remain (Bread Pudding was amazing) She was a firm believer and user of an old fashioned pressure cooker and used it to make many a heart warming casserole or stew. I have seen these advertised and have been so tempted! They sound like they make cooking easy as well as fun and what mum doesn't like a time saver!

It's got to be my mum's shepard pie. I don't know what it is extra she put in it, but mine is never quite as good!

My mum made an awesome beef stroganoff, never had a recipe for it (that I could find in the huge stash of recipes she left me after she passed away) but no matter how many times I make it I just can't replicate it.

My dad was an extremely fussy eater so it was only after he left her did she really start to cook some amazing dishes, lamb and aubergine stew, sticky chicken thighs, oxtail stew with apricot jam (sounds awful, but if was amazing)