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 feel like sticking my fingers in my ears and saying lalala im not listening, or reading in this case. We had a tefal all in one, then upgraded to a tefal all in one with pressure cooker and now this, I want one.

My mum is a great cook. She was master of bulk cooking for the freezer, still is. 25 years since my sister and I left home and she still cooks for 4. It means theres always plenty to share out when the family visit, we're hundreds of miles from where we grew up but all one street away from each other.

My favourite meal was the Sunday roast. It isn't just the food its the whole ceremony - helping peel the potatos, mix up the yorshire batter, wonderful apetising smells filling the house and being told to go out and play because dinner was still an hour away, then being shouted in to wash hands and lay the table. We quite often had extras to Sunday lunch, people at a lose end, people traveling, distant family etc. Wonderful interesting people and lovely time just sitting around with no time pressures chatting about anything and everything, lear ing about different peoples worlds.

I'm afraid my mum was a terrible cook. I remember her once serving me raw fishfingers - bleugh! The evening meal for the kids was often bread and jam or even bread and marg with sugar sprinkled on. Dad never really cooked except for making a stew which was not too bad and a Christmas cake once a year which was really nice. I hope I'm doing a bit better... I certainly have much more of an interest in food and try lots of things out.

My mum made the best roast potatoes to go with our roast dinner , I can never seem to make them as good as her.

Roasted Lamb/ Mutton Chops

Steak and kidney pie. I don't eat meat now, but it is the only thing I missed when I stopped eating meat. It was delicious.

My Mum is a dreadful cook - like her Mother before her. My Nan's most (in)famous dish was soup with a pork pie plonked in the middle. My Mum's was chips with soup poured over. Odd, but remembered fondly.

(Luckily, Dad makes fantastic roast potatoes)

My mum ha shiver me the recipe and I still can't match her spag bol but the best meals were the ones she used her slow cooker for, seem to remember her using it a lot- that and the pressure cooker. Neither of which I have bought and mastered!! Maybe one day I'll be just like mum

My mum, and my auntie made the best toad in the hole ever and try as I might I cannot get the batter to stop being soggy and heavy. I have tried putting it in the fridge for an hour before cooking and I gave the oven on high but my technique just doesn't cut the mustard.

My Mum always used to cook from scratch. I always loved her roast we always had stuffing no matter what the meat was. My favourite was roast beef and she made her own yorkshires and gravy.

Has to be a curry sauce base... I make it in large quantities, freeze it and then add what level of chilli we are in the mood for. You can also prepare different strengths for the little one. :)

My mum cooks everything from scratch, my favourite is her roast dinners :)

No matter how hard i try, i cant make mousaka the way my mum used to, i follow her recipe but it never turns out right!

My Grandma's Shepherd's Pie was the best in the world with home grown runner beans served in our garden den (made out of sheets tied across some large trees)

Apple Crumble!

My mom's a great cook. She can make a tasty meal out of nothing, well from bits and bobs. I don't get to see my mom often as she lives in America, but when I do visit, I get to taste some good wholesome food. As I'm a vegetarian, I wish I can replicate her vegetable fried rice. No matter how I try, it's not as good as hers.

My abiding memory of mum's cooking was pork chops, boiled potatoes, boiled soggy greens and splashy gravy .

To this day I can't eat pork, boiled veg or gravy you can't slice. My mum really couldn't cook.

We ate a lot of lentils! She used to make this vegetable, cheese and lentil pie with wholegrain pastry. Sounds a bit weird but it was delicious.

Homemade salmon fishcakes. My mum makes the best.

My mum makes a great chilli xx

My favourite meal my mum made was fish pie. Loved the cheesy crust on top!

Traditional Welsh Cawl with homemade crusty bread, mine never tastes the same!

My mother is a terrible cook, but she makes the worlds best macaroni cheese. It is all stringy and delicious. As an adult I realise it is because the sauce is mainly cheese, but I love it and now my children do to.

I'd love to win this to give her. She needs the help. I have childhood memories of her adding BBQ sauce to soup "to make it have a lovely flavour like grandmas soup" (no mum- even now I don't think grandma has ever tasted the stuff). Also substituting peach yogurt for natural yogurt in a savoury recipe because that is what we had in.

Still she would love this and she is amazing, even if her cooking isn't.

MY MUM'S VERSION OF OUR LOCAL STAFFORDSHIRE LOBBY WITH SLOW COOKED BEEF, LOTS OF LEFTOVER ROOT VEG/POTATOES FROM SUNDAY'S ROAST & SERVED WITH FRESH CRUSTY BREAD

My parents used to own a Chinese takeaway so I would love to replicate a fraction of the things they used to make. They retired a couple of years ago and I miss their spare ribs, crispy beef, sweet and sour chicken, curry, beef in black bean I could go on and on!!

My mum is one of those mums that always made things from scratch, no ready meals graced our tables when we were kids, it was always shepherds pie, bacon & onion suet pudding, spaghetti bolognese, minced beef and onion pie, liver & bacon, lots of traditional home-cooked dishes. The one dish I wish I could make as well as her is a roast dinner, my mum has impeccable timing when it comes to getting it all ready at the same time, her gravy is a thing of beauty and the meat is always cooked to perfection.