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

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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 make the most amazing Macaroni Bolognese. She said her secret ingredient was Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup. oh my goodness, it was amazing! To this day I cannot make it like she does.

There's something about a good roast dinner at your mums. I'm not sure why it can't be replicated, probably because it's not just the flavour of the food, it's the setting, the company and that lovely settled feeling of being at home. My mum's speciality is puddings. Eve's pudding or a syrup sponge. Oh, and trifle. So good.

Vegetable stew.

My mum used to buy food from the college that the cookery students had made which saved us a fortune and gave us a variety to eat.

My mum used to cook a lot from scratch, curries, dahl, stews, lots of one-pot cooking, mostly vegetarian. All healthy stuff, but Heinz tomato soup with a handful of grated cheese was our favourite tea!

spotted dick !!

My mum wasn't the best cook, but my man was amazing, I've never been able to recreate her shepherds pie.

pfcpompey I had completely forgotten about suet pudding with bacon and onion! Dh is a Pompey supporter, thank goodness they were promoted!

My Mum also worked full time and we lived on a very haphazard diet. Luckily, I will always fondly remember her oven roasted lamb cutlets with minted new potatoes , oh how we loved this meal.

lancashire hotpot

love my mums baking especially her cherry scones

My mum made the best beef stew ever, I've tried to replicate it without success and unfortunately I don't have her recipe to follow so this would be the one I would love to be able to produce

There were a few things mum would cook much better than anyone, they include beef stew, braising steak, a bacon and egg fry up and cottage pies. I use the same ingredients but they never have the flavour that they did when mum made them. I really miss her cooking :)

My mum always did a killer stew. Barley was an essential ingredient.

I'm so glad I learnt how to replicate it because I've moved to an area where a stew is a completely different thing and my idea of stew is closer to a "broth", but with more meat and veg and less water and split peas. They take their broth quite seriously here, but DH likes my stew, despite it being practically foreign.

My mum's chicken risotto I have tried so hard to do it like her but it never tastes the same x

My mum used to make a lovely beef stew with potatoes and carrots. She used to stew it for about 3 hours. So succulent and tasty!

Hotpots were a big favourite when we were growing up, my Mum would make them with all sorts, sometimes sausage, sometimes chicken or beef, always with sliced potatoes on top.

My mum makes the best vegetable lasagna

My dad was a better cook than my mum and being from the Caribbean you could always count in flavour. I still can't make rice and peas like him (I suspect it got something to do with all that salt he used!)

My mom made a wonderful egg custard, lovely pastry (not soggy like mine) with a very deep creamy, just set custard, sprinkled with just the right amount of nutmeg. It was a real weeknight treat, and although she showed me how to make it, mine is never quite the same.

My mum makes an amazing fish stew, she would go to the fish market early in the morning to get the freshest fish. I have tried to replicate it but I'm more of a convenience shopper and it's hard to get hold of all the different shellfish.

mums a cook.not professional but she can really just cook gooood food.she has a knack for knowing exactly what to do to make tasty food and do it well.
where is I'm so perfectionist or find myself searching recipes she will just knock something up through senses alone.a good cook.
she could be anywhere and given a meal or a reasonable set of ingredeints and cook something tasty.
but her signature awesome dishes have to be her proper steak and kidney pie.her crust are amazing.and her lasagne.mmmmmm

My mum makes a lovely Vegeterian Lasagne and Apple crumble.So tasty

My mum used to make these yummy koftas. It was her signature dish and no one else in the family can make it exactly the same.

My mum makes the best ever mac and cheese. The best. Her sauce is creamy and plentiful and then she bakes it so it has a crispy top. It doesn't matter what I do mine dries up!

She also makes the most wonderful leek and potato soup. Again, it doesn't matter what I do (and I even have the recipe) it's just not the same.

As an aside I like the look of the cooking pot and it sounds like something i would use. With a tiny kitchen space is at a premium. Does it slow cook? I think I'd want it to do that too so I could free up space by getting rid of my slow cooker.