Your Mum and/or Dad's best dishes

[Morning Glory]

Both my parents were good cooks with mum more of a recipe follower and dad not at all.
Mum cooked during the week, dad in the weekends and during holidays.
And daily, once he retired.
Mum's signature dish was hachée, the Indonesian versian, not the Dutch one and an oven dish with white beans, sausage, apples and potatoes
Dad just cooked all and everything gado-gado, nasi goreng, semoor but also raw endive potato mash, pasta dishes and so on

What is semoor?

 

[Morning Glory]

I grew up eating out of cans and boxes, unfortunately. Nothing memorable at all. I did like my grandpa's pancakes on the weekends, though. That was the one (only) thing he could cook, which I'd drown in Aunt Jemima's.

Its wonderful that you turned out to be such at good cook, then.

 

[badjak]

What is semoor?

Semoor/smoor/semur is basically slow cooked meat in Indonesian spices.
Dad made it with pork, but it's often made with chicken
"Smoor" means "to cook slowly" in Dutch
Example recipe

 

[Morning Glory]

Semoor/smoor/semur is basically slow cooked meat in Indonesian spices.
Dad made it with pork, but it's often made with chicken
"Smoor" means "to cook slowly" in Dutch
Example recipe

Love the use of nutmeg and mace in that example!

 

[karadekoolaid]

My mum's best dish was her apple pie.
My dad used to make a stew with minced beef and baked beans. That was about it!

 

[Z-Cook]

I grew up eating out of cans and boxes, unfortunately. Nothing memorable at all. I did like my grandpa's pancakes on the weekends, though. That was the one (only) thing he could cook, which I'd drown in Aunt Jemima's.

No wonder you like to cook. There are many ways and reasons we come to liking to cook well.