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 would have totally approved of the MN chicken as we ate the sunday roast for another 4 days! My favourite was sweet and sour pork (from the roast) with Sharwoods crispy noodles.
She wasn't the greatest cook tbh, but a pudding she made at the weekends was amazing - Queen of Puddings.

My mum and dad made the best roast dinner on a Sunday, nobody else's roast potatoes and stuffing come close.
Mum also used to give me banana and honey sandwiches as a child!

My mum's cooking was legendary, I can hardly remember a meal when there wasn't an extra person at the dinner table. Chicken soup in a massive pot was always bubbling away on the aga, tins of sausage rolls, the best raspberry trifle... it's no wonder we were all a bit chubby. Chubby but happy!!

veggie chilli!

I remember her making schnitzels which are probably common place now but were very different back in the 80s! Her family were Polish so she always made Polish dishes which I loved.

Her lentil soup and mince with dumplings. They were fab

Has to be braised steak - I can almost smell it now. She would have it cooking for hours - always remember coming home from school and being instantly hungry as soon as I smelt it!

My mums lemon chicken was amazing! Yum!

My dad is the cook but he makes a great cajun chicken meal. Really tasty.

My Mum's Sunday Roast is the best.

My mum made a delicious stew, absolutely scrummy and although I make a nice stew myself, it is nowhere near as good!

Chicken curry

My Mum is French. She taught me how to make beef carbonnade. Lovely!

My dad did the cooking and he made a mean stew

My mum used to make an amazing Spaghetti Bolognese. The flavour was intense and I have never tasted it better in any restaurant

Beef hotpot! Leftover beef from a roast with gravy and lots and lots of sliced onions, topped with thinly sliced potatoes and cooked for about 3 hours. It is the food of the gods and my attempts to make it are hit and miss

Sausage curry! I still have my late Mum's hand-written recipe spotted with a little curry sauce but so precious to me.....

I've been a vegetarian for years, but my mum still makes an amazing beef and potato pie, which I still drool over the smell of. Would be wonderful to be able to make it for visiting (and in-house) carnivores.

I am afraid my mum was an appalling cook. Dad couldn't cook either!
She expected us to eat school dinners and would serve meals like sausages or fish fingers...that would be the only thing on the plate.
The rest of the tea would be made up of bread and jams....then cake.
I have never replicated these meals!

My mum's not the best cook, and hates cooking actually, but it's only now that I appreciate that the effort she went to to feed us healthy food was monumental. Especially when I decided I was vegetarian, which was very outside her comfort zone. So my favourite recipe of hers would be her famous (for all the wrong reasons) microwave nut roast.

We no longer make it.

My mum wasn't a very good cook, but when she made stews or soup there was nothing else like it. She could make the most delicious soup out if any veg we had in, and she used to wing it when making stew, but it was always the tenderest, most meaty, hearty veg. So filling and the best thing to warm you up on a cold evening.

Like many of the mothers mentioned, mine did lots of things with mince, including curries which were not an everyday meal in those days. The worst thing was that like most of her generation she overcooked vegetables (according to modern tastes) - no wonder kids wouldn't eat their greens, brassicas "boiled to death" etc - I still can't face spinach.

One thing I loved which I've never been able to replicate was her bacon & egg pie. This was made in a flan ring with shortcrust top & bottom, the filling was slices of crispy bacon layered with eggs beaten with parsley. My kids didn't like it so I never asked how she made it.

My step mother was the worst cook you could ever imagine. Meal times were a chore
But my Granny! That was love on a plate. Even when she was old and battling horrible arthritis, she filled that table with love. Didn't matter what she cooked. Everything was piping hot, perfectly cooked and all served in beautiful dishes with a flair that made your mouth water. I can close my eyes and sit at that table and soak up all of that love still to this day.
Hope I have lots of grandkids that feel that I can do it for some day

Mums butternut squash with meat curry

My mum's scouse! Or lobbies as it's called down the road :)