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.

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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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However I try, I can't replicate my mum's spinach soup! I love it, the kids love it, and I crave it when I'm feeling ill, but when I make it myself it's just not the same!
I don't understand why at all, I've watched her making it so many times

Love reading this thread. My favourite was her curry cooked in pressure cooker. Apples and sultanas in there. I wish she'd teach me her skills :-(

My mum did a delicious Lancashire HotPot. We had loads of bread and butter with it to mop up the gravy. On a cold night after school it was the best meal we could have and healthy too but it takes so long in the oven that I only get to make it on the odd weekend we have free. This cooker would be ideal for it don't you think?

My mother was an amazing cook. I loved her "sausage dinner " which was sausages , homemade Yorkshire puds, swede and potato mash , veg and onion gravy. Her beef stew with dumplings was wonderful on cold Winter evenings after school.
My sisters and I used to come from school to home made pasties , egg and bacon pie, cream slices. In fact all my mums cooking was delicious but she was a plain , traditional cook. My dad makes a mean curry , chow mein and spaghetti bolognese.

My mums chicken soup was something I always looked forward to!

It would have to be mum's Beef Stew and Dumplings- always so delicious, warming and hearty- perfect comfort food - replicating this would be my ideal.

My mums best evening meal was always a gorgeous ham and barley broth, she would prepare and boil a small Han joint first thing in the morning, then prepare the broth using the ham stock, vegetable stock, soaked split peas, barley, boiled potatoes, carrots and some tiny chunks of swede. It was always an incredible meal to walk into when we got home from school, was so nutritious and proper comfort food.
Wonderful

My Mum's pasta & vegetables in cheese sauce... I've never been able to recreate her sauce...

My mum's a great cook, but when I was smaller we lived on a farm and she used to bake the most amazing home made bread, it was soooo good straight out of the oven and even better with her homemade butter!

My dad used to make the most amazing meat and potato pie with suet pastry. I have tried and tried to get it as nice as his but failed miserably. I'd love to taste it one more time!

Roast meat, I can't do it like she did it was amazing but also we always had lovely cold meat in sandwiches all the time!

My Mum used to be able to feed a whole crowd for pennies, we were poor to the extreme but she always welcomed anyone and everyone to sit around the dinner table at meal times.

She used to make something she referred
to as 'Scrag Cakes' which was cheap sausages minced up and formed into patties with herbs and whatever veggies we had lying around. They were actually pretty tasty with some homemade flatbread and salad.

Her veggie soup was lovely, again it was whatever veggies we had in a huge pan (that I now have!) with stock and basic seasoning that would sit on the hob for days so anyone could help themselves to a mug of it, special occasions should see a chicken carcass added for flavour.

She's not with us anymore and I often wish she was here to make one more of her meals, nothing is never quite the same when you do it yourself.

For me, it's my mums stew. She had it simmering all afternoon, full of chunks of meat (cheap versions like beef skirt etc) but cooked so slowly they were delicious. It was filled with onions by the bucket full and chopped potatoes. And they whatever veg was left over. Her homemade dumplings bobbing around on the top. It was my favourite meal ever. I still can't quote do it how she did.

I'm assuming a certain demographic and age group on here whose mums were the main cooks so I'm not offended and shall share that my mum lived through 70s and then went a bit convenience mad- crispy pancakes and packet soup but has since returned to real food. Cheese and onion pie. Delicious and when I went veggie was my fave and still is

Chicken in white sauce (the tinned stuff) with microwave rice. She'd shoot me for picking that but it was such a treat.

Her Bolognese sauce - she definitely has a secret ingredient, but it is so much more tasty than anything I can make or buy in a jar. I've not had anything close in restaurants either!

My mum never had much time to cook as she always worked a lot, but she sometimes cooked classic French dishes such as blanquette ( kind of veal stew with rice and cream), courgette gratin, roast beef, steak with wine sauce etc. I wish I had the skills to make these again. A standard evening dish was pasta with homemade sauce, which we loved, and soups in the winter. I love cooking so I actually often cook when I visit her, but with three young children I rarely have time to try new recipes on weekdays.

We had no money growing up but I never realised until I was an adult as my mum made us feel so loved with her cooking. My favourite were her quiches, really big and thick and we would eat them with jacket potatoes and salad. Endless variations followed by home made cake, yoghurt or rice pudding with skin (which we fought over!)

Mum made the best hotpot! It is an easy, tasty and nutritious meal and served piping hot with crunchy potatoes on top after coming home from school on a bitterly cold day was just what we needed!

My mum made the BEST homemade lasagne and crinkled chips! x

My mum makes the best mince and potatoes!

My mum's casseroles, made with mince but added to with lentils, soya mince, and a variety of vegetables all in a thick gravy. Served with potatoes (rice or pasta was a bit too modern for my family in the 1970s). I make something very similar, but somehow it is never quite as good! What's interesting is that my mum added lots of lentils or butter beans and soya mince because it was cheaper and was how she had been brought up (as a war baby). I still add lots of lentils and soya mince partly for cost but mostly for health.

Mince - soften onions then brown the mince then add seasoning and a good dollop of ketchup and brown sauce. Add a little water and bring to boil the pressure cooker for 10 mins. It makes the most amazing gravy sauce and the mince tastes amazing.
You can either serve with creamy mash and peas or add carrots and chopped potatoes to the pressure cooker and cook it all together as a one pot. It's just amazing. Favourite childhood meal by a mile!!!

My mums best dish has to be her spaghetti bolognese, it was the go to dish for any occasion and she always added just the right amount of everything. For such a basic dish she kept to her roots and made it simple with amazing flavours. Even when I took over the cooking she would always want to factor in her spaghetti bolognese somewhere!

Definitely her stew. She would make it in a heavy saucepan on the hob and simmer it all day. I remember the taste all these years later.