Cooking like my mother

Just the thought of trying my mother's recipes by cooking each one gets me excited but also makes me very nervous. I am not sure where to start. I am most nervous about not being able to recreate the same taste. And this is the reason the dishes I like the best are the ones I never cook on my own. Mummy loved to cook, she cooked a variety of things, she cooked lot of dishes that I consider unique to our family, the city/region she grew up in, dishes that I have not easily found outside our family. Some of these dishes even have names that dont sound normal names for dishes - ex. Dal Ki Dulhan (Lentil's bride), Nau ratan chutney (chutney made out of 9 gems). Then she also cooked lot of other dishes that were not so common the region we lived in. She had been cooking south indian dishes (sambhar, idli, puliyara, upma) much before it became popular in the north. She had an oven for as long as I remember. Eeven now, it is not common to find ovens in homes in India. She used the ove