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.

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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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Mum used to do a home made braised steak and onions. She used a really cheap cut of beef, shin maybe? And just put it in a shallow baking dish, like a lasagne dish with loads of sliced onions, stock, flavourings and something to thicken it. It would cook for god knows how many hours and would come out with the beef falling apart in a really rich gravy. Served with buttery mash and veg. I've never managed to replicate it.

My mum wasn't a very good cook at all. One of the main reasons I became a veggie was because I needed an excuse to not spend thirty minutes chewing her meat dishes. My dad on the other hand was great - still is and made/makes the best fried liver ever! I know, most people hate it but I couldn't keep up being a veggie when my dad started making this. My mum would do the mash and her mash was really good! So a combo from my parents was my favourite meal - they still make it for me on occasions, or if I've been feeling terrible or had a tough time! I always have about three helpings and feel sick after!

My mother hated cooking but growing up in the 80s, we were able to "enjoy" new convenience foods like Findus Crispy Pancakes and beef stew from a can. Mashed potato was lump and shepherd's pie was topped with turnip.Sometimes we had cockles boiled in milk. It was all absolutely vile but sometimes when Mum serves up her lumpy mash, I do get nostalgia for her cooking - but it quickly disappears

It would have to be beef stew and dumplings!

My mum makes THE BEST yorkshire puddings, no matter what I do, I cannot replicate them... I use the exact recipe, timings, I've even got one of her old bun tins to cook them in - yet still there's something not quite 'as mum makes' - must be because she was brought up in Yorkshire and I wasn't.

My mum taught me to cook and one of my favourite meals growing up was her chicken curry, it tasted amazing but I struggle to get even close to making mine taste as good.

Beef casserole
Beef stroganof

• which I used to love when I was little, before I was a vegetarian, especially the stroganof which was the meal I always requested for my birthday.

Latterly the most amazing Veggie lentil lasagne

I lived at my grans after my parents divorce,she used to make a lovely potato hash with a pie crust & also bacon with melted cheese& onions,one of my faves.And homemade rice pudding with nutmeg on top with the crispy skin on top.Have never attempted to make this,as I just open a tin of Ambrosia!

Panackelty, it's a north east favourite but every family seems to have a different variation for the recipe. Ours was sliced onions, sliced potatoes, bacon, sausages and corned beef cooked in gravy in the oven and served with a dollop of brown sauce and bread and butter for dipping in the gravy. Delicious

Simple, yet delicious - Macaroni cheese - I craved this whilst I was pregnant and my Mum would drive the 3 hours to our house, with a big pyrex dish full to keep me going!

My mum always made a Sunday roast with homemade Yorkshire puddings. They were crispy but a bit soft at the bottom, have never been able to make them like that. Followed by homemade apple crumble or steamed syrup pudding with cream. I don't think I've had syrup pudding for about 25 years, making my mouth water thinking about it!

Christmas dinner, specifically the sausage and chestnut stuffing!

Curry! Whether it be indain, Chinese, Thai, Caribbean, she is the master. She passes her recipes onto me but she never measures anything, she just goes by eye and taste. It's safe to say Im not there yet.

My mother is a terrible cook! She wouldn't mind me saying this, she admits it, and admits that she hates cooking! That said, her vegetable soup is the best thing ever!

The opening post is very sexist. My mum worked full-time and my dad was a SAHF and he did all the cooking. I would have expected better from MN.

My Mum does an amazing shepherd's pie. And homemade pea and carrot soup.

My Dad makes amazing stew and dumplings!

Bolognese with a twist as I add far more season veggies than in the original recipe

We have always gently mocked my mum's style of cooking as '50 ways with mince'. It was always a bit lentilly too because she was quite into health food and very opposed to salt - so it wasn't always tasty, but it was always wholesome. She did make a most delicious slow-cooked stew of her own devising - with beef, flageolet beans and (not very healthy) suet dumplings. It was truly, truly delicious.

My own children are very fussy eaters and I worry that it's because I'm not a good cook. I just don't seem to have the time or the talent and they eat more sausages and potato waffles than I'd like. It makes me appreciate my mum's efforts much, much more.

My mum and dad married and had me at 18 so I think they were still growing up themselves when I was little - this extended to cooking skills
I remember everything being pressure cookered to within an inch of its life but also remember them making a mean Ash and Yorkshire puddings that lasted a few days and got better each time. Cheap meat cuts that fell away into the gravy and loads of root veg. She still makes it for me and my husband (who's a chef!) when we visit.

Her stewed chicken - she's from Trinidad and Tobago and for me that is true comfort food.

A five spice Chinese roasted chicken, absolutely delicious, I can never make it as good as my mum

My mother's cuisine was very much a la Iceland or Homepride in a jar (although she did often get compliments at dinner parties in the 80s with her Fred beef [hhm])
I did like her yorkshire puddings though, even though now I know how to make them I suspect she used the wrong flour, but I didn't know any different.
Thank goodness for my own kids I learnt to cook!

My mum fucked off with some twat from work wasn't around so I'm going to answer this based on my wonderful dad.

The most amazing home cooked pizzas I've ever had, he made the sauce and the bases with his special mix of herbs from the garden. He would make nice pictures with black olives and mushrooms on them too, normally a flower or a fish

My mother great baker, her speciality was scones and triangular jam pasties i have no chance to get any where near