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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cornbeef pie. she seemed to cook it all the time, and I can never quite replicate it

My Mum used to make a lovely chocolate crumble pudding.

My mum was an amazing cook ,I can't think of any meal I didn't like ,one of my favourites was her toad in the hole ,her batter pudding was amazing

My mum couldn't/can't cook she burnt everything lol... my dad was the cook in our house and hated eating out a box, so everything was home cooked. If I could aspire to be half as good as my dad I would be very happy! My dad makes a chicken stroganoff that is out of this world!

You know what, my mum is a rubbish cook! Always did an 'easy meal'; read, chicken straight in oven plus some form of potato and veg (normally microwave peas). Things came into their own when my Dad cooked at the weekends. He made a great vegetable curry with cauliflower, and also made a fab chicken chilli stir fry. So I would always look forward to when my Dad cooked!

It would have to be her roast dinner. I can still remember the smell of it cooking as I walked home from Sunday school and the anticipation.

My Mum cooks a mean Chicken Korma - I don't know how she does it, but it always tastes amazing! Super-creamy, deliciously coconutty & served with flaked almonds over the top - yum!
She always serves it with a potato dish which involves frying them up with mustard seeds - I'd ask her for the recipe, but I'm too busy stuffing my face with it!

My mum used to make curry from a can. I shiver looking back but it was good at the time.

Can't say I want to make it again, but like that she tried out different foods on me as a child. It was unusual back then to have curry in a small remote Scottish town.

Baked macaroni, Maltese style with eggs and tinned milk. It's nicer than it sounds 😂

My mum makes the most delicious stews and has many different recipes with different cuts of beef or lamb. The birthday boy/girl would get their favourite made on the day by special request. I'd like to see what she could do with a digital cooker rather than the pressure cooker, happy to be a new stew tester!

"Cook4Me is a one-pot digital cooker, ideal for mums looking to make fast and fresh meals."

I would advise Tefal to avoid insisting on 'mums' as opposed to parents.

My mum is Indian and her lamb biryani was and still is one of my favourite dishes.
She used to make it with all the trimmings- chutney, raita, yoghurt drink and home made poppadoms! Yum!

No matter how many times she shows me, I just can't make it as tasty as hers. Even the kids prefer hers!

We never had a lot of money growing up (I remember my Dad eating a sugar sandwich after giving me and my brother the meet from his plate!) Anyway, I digress! When my DM & DF had saved up enough, my Mum would have her girl friends over down"tea" and she would always make pizza! Home made dough that she would prove in the airing cupboard and the most amazing tomato sauce ( made with tinned tomatoes, fresh garlic, extra Tom purée and dried oregano!)! My Mum visited recently and she made that sauce - OMG the memories that aroma evoked! Joy in a saucepan and with the most basic of ingredients!

Local dish called scouse, or blind scouse because we are vegetarian. I can get close but it's never quite right

Looking back it's grim but we loved corned beef hash made with smash

Home made cheese a onion pasties.

I am a pretty good cook but I have never managed to successfully produce Yorkshire Puddings like my mums. My mums are so good. Just as I like them. Nothing like shop bought or pub Yorkshires.

My mum used to make a fantastic beef stew. I have the handwritten and annotated recipe and make it often.
She would make it on a Sunday to eat on the Monday.

My mam made some gorgeous meals when I was a child, she made lots of traditional food plus she baked every weekend. My favourites were actually hot roast chicken sandwiches with home made deep fried chips or stewed steak, mash and veg.

My mum's Italian, and she's a fantastic cook! Her homemade pasta is to die for..wish I could be half as good as she is! Her pumpkin ravioli are the stuff of legend

Her hotpot was delicious!

Lasagna with cabbage

My mum's mince and tatties - really simple, just mince, onion and carrot and stock cube but so tasty and comforting with the potatoes always cooked perfectly to crush with your fork and mix together then cover with salt and pepper.

Macaroni cheese. It's still my ultimate comfort food, but I've never managed to make it quite as well as my Mum does!

Okay, so this might not be the sort of meal you're after, but I always remember my mums cooking from our camping trips in Europe. We'd usually arrive at a campsite in France at night time, in the dark, and she'd rustle up dinner from what we had in the camper vans cupboards. There'd be tinned potatoes, sausages, and tinned peas or carrots. Whilst it's not exactly cordon bleu cookery, there'd always be empty plates!