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 makes the BEST ever fish pie. I don't know quite what it is that sets hers apart- the balance of different seafoods, crispy cheese topping or generous portion size...or maybe because it's made with love and served at 'home'.

My partner always requests it when we go down to visit AND has second helpings everytime!

Yorkshire Pudding. They were delicious

My mom cooks the best breakfast ever and her eggs are perfect

I would love to make my mums wonderful steak and kidney pies. The pastry and filling were both wonderful. My pastry is awful. Mum gave me lots of lessons but I just don't seem to have "the touch".

Mum made wonderful sweet pies too, blackberry and apple, gooseberry and rhubarb were firm family favorites.

Sadly I can even make a mess of ready made pastry,

My dad made a mean chicken curry!..Mum can't cook at all lol

My Mum doesn't cook but my Dad used to make a lovely fish tikka, that I wish I could remember how to make as it was quick and yummy.

My Mum makes the best Lancashire Hot Pot

Scouse my mum makes the best scouse she adds flavouring to it but I just never seems to get it right nobody else's will ever taste as good as hers it's just perfection

Christmas dinner, especially roast potatoes, bread sauce and Christmas pudding. She is fab.

Have always loved my mums stew and dumplings,tastes absolutely stunning., i always feel full for the rest of the day

I know it is very 70s but her take on 'chicken supreme' with lardons, sweetcorn, and baby onions is simply amazing, she serves this with brown rice cooked in chicken stock. Yummy

Chicken rice & peas on a Sunday.
Try as much as I might, even following the exact recipe mine just doesn't compare x

Not my mum's, but my grandma's Sunday dinner. I've never managed to make one myself or eaten anyone else's that taste as good. I think it must have been her ancient gas cooker that made them magic!

My Mum used to make the best roast potatoes when I was growing up. They were so crispy on the outside and really fluffy on the inside. Try as I might I can never replicate them.

My mum wasn't much interested in cooking but occasionally felt the need to make some epic puddings. My favourite was always Queen of Puddings, I looked it up to give it a go not that long ago but it just seemed far too much of a faff so I've consigned it to a happy childhood memory

My mum made the best comfort food. Corned beef hash, sausage and mash with onion gravy, cottage pie, pea and ham soup, full roast dinners, rice pudding, bread and butter pudding, fruit pies and crumbles to die for. If I had to pick one meal it would be her fried fish in breadcrumbs (we lived by the sea, so they'd be fresh from the boats that day, and I've never managed to keep crumb on a fish!), proper chunky chip-pan twice-cooked chips and marrowfat peas. Finished off with what she'd never have served up with such a heavy meal, her fabulous piping hot banana/apple fritters liberally sprinkled with sugar. Manna from heaven!

My mum used to do a slow roast lamb, that just fell off the bone and melted in the mouth, I'm just drooling thinking about it. With it she would serve a potato dish that she'd cooked- thinly sliced potatoes & onions/garlic, in chicken stock, something like a Boulangere?
Heavenly comfort food right there

My dad was the better vpcook. He made a mean stew. Always loved to add a bit of spice. Once in the early days of Polish food shops he mistakenly added strawberry dumplings. Wasn't too bad though.

My mum used to make an amazing macaroni cheese. I know it's supposedly a simple dish but I've never been able to replicate what she does! Mind you, my kids don't like cheesy pasta so I don't practise it very often.

My mum is a great cook. Since we grew up and flew the nest she has had more time to devote to cooking and visits home always involve piling on a few kg.

From my childhood I remember her sausage rolls. They were and still are amazing.

My Mum used to make an amazing dish she called 'Lamb Ragout' - began with cubed neck of lamb, bacon chopped small, grated carrot, onions, and water (not much else that I recall - not even a stock cube.) She would cook it for ages in her slo-cooker. It was just so delicious - melt in the mouth lamb, smoky with bacon, the 'sauce' naturally thickened with the grated carrot and onions disappeared into it.

But I've tried to make it myself many a time and just it's never come out the same

My mum used to make oxtail casserole which sounds dodgy but was delicious.I've not got thre confidence to cook offal.

My mums beef stew and dumplings, I have tried for years and followed all instructions given, but still cannot make it like my mums.

my mother used to make lovely soup and home made bread. delicious.

Drop the "Mum" rubbish. Mum+cooking=sexistcrap