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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I loved my mum's lamb roast dinner, with roast potatoes, home made fresh mint sauce and lots of lovely gravy made with the meat juices.
Also home made egg custard tart for afters.

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Mexican.
There would be wraps, yummy fajita stuff, rice, retried beans, cheese etc etc all out on the table and we'd all pile in and help ourselves.
Making my mouth water just thinking about it.

It's a Canadian meal - pancakes (crepe style) with bacon, maple syrup and stewed apple. Sounds weird but really, really good.

My dad did all the cooking in our house, he did a creamy spag Bol which was amazing. Almost made up for the microwaved burgers he insisted on giving us, as a "treat" on Friday nights 😖

My mum's minced beef and onion pie was my absolute favourite. Even if I could replicate the filling (which I doubt), I would never be able to produce such light, buttery pastry 😋

Onion pudding. My mum was from the North East and we had onion pudding with roast dinners on Sundays. She could get the onions to semi caramelise in the pudding and it tasted great. I get onions in dough.

Everything my mum and nan used to make was from scratch with fresh ingredients (where did they get the time after work or patience for that matter with kids running around anting you to play !!??)
My favourite meal time was always her Scouse (Liverpools stew ) The best part was getting to dip a slice of bread in the gravy at the end. I've tried to make it myself for my 5 little ones but the meat never softly falls apart like hers used to and I can never get the potatoes soft enough but not too soft so they end up like mush.
All in all my attempt doesn't taste anything like as delicious as theirs did sadly neither are here no more to get me in the kitchen to teach me how to cook and give me all their secret recipes for a full happy belly hahah!!

At my home my Dad was the chef ;-) Everything he cooked was just amazing. My mum tried to take over, but none of us were amazed.
I love polish food, stew, pork scallops, dumplings. Yes that's the one! Polish dumplings. That was the most awesome food my dad used to make.

chicken and vegatable wraps- qucik and easy dinner.

My mum, now 90, was brought up on very plain food (as was dad) after her mum died very young.
In her 60's she took cookery lessons at a local college and would bring home delicious concoctions like Beef Olives, Dutch Apple flan, Chicken à la Greque and chocolate bavorois, chocolate ganache and hazelnut flan 😋😋
After years of basic food my dad wasn't amused!
Even now, 30 years later she enjoys cooking, always tweaking recipes.
I just hope one day I will follow her enthusiasm and skills!

Defiantly macaroni cheese. I can never make it quite the same. Mum always adds a couple of Indian stock cubes and broccoli. Somehow this makes the best macaroni cheese ever. Of course with a nice crispy brown top too!

Toad in the hole, I can never get it right!

Lamb stew with pearl barley. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

My mum makes the most wonderful meat and potato pie. It was full of lean beef and had beer and sweet potato, carrots etc with a lovely puff pastry crust. I have never been able to quite replicate it.

I would love to be able to replicate a yummy fish pie,

I used to love my Mum's cauliflower cheese. It's a dish I make but it never tastes quite the same. I suspect it's not the way I cook it, but the memories of the homely family kitchen and the presence of my mother that are missing. Also ds1 and ds2 have sensory issues around food and can't eat cauliflower so I'm always making something else at the same time which rather spoils it for me!

Panachalty! Beans and bacon with thin sliced potatoes on top the crunchy dumplings on top of that. Sometimes had mushrooms in as well.
Also fantastic soup with lentils, sweetcorn, celery, potatoes, tomatoes and carrots.
Best of all Sunday dinner with seven vegetables including slow roast onions

Her potato bake recipe is incredible - and she absolutely refuses to tell me her secret!

It has to be my Mum's chicken stew, simple, tasty and warming.

Her soups. My mum is the soup queen. They taste amazing. I think she uses 'real' stock as a base and then goes for it with the flavours. Watercress is a particular fave. All served with her freshly baked bread. Must come from being a farmers wife!

My mum made the most amazing roast dinners followed by a yummy trifle! We still get her to make the trifle for all our family get togethers! She makes a cracking fruit cake too

My mum made the most amazing roast dinners followed by a yummy trifle! We still get her to make the trifle for all our family get togethers! She makes a cracking fruit cake too

My Mum's CowPie, stewed steak, pots and onions covered in short crust pastry in a ginormous pie dish. I'm talking Desperate Dan big

My Mum makes an awesome chicken chasseur with creamy mash, I've tried over and over to replicate this but it's impossible. I've watched her make it so many times aswell. My mash always ends up lumpy haha and the chicken tastes not even half as nice! xx