Proud mum Jasmin Cox-Williams has shared the comfort food classics she still cooks for her daughter - Paralympic gold medalist Kadeena Cox.
Leeds-born Kadeena, 30, is a para-sprinter and para-cyclist.
She took gold, silver and bronze medals in athletics at the 2016 Paralympic Games, along with a gold medal in cycling, making history as the first British athlete since 1984 to top the podium in two sports.
This summer, at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, she placed fourth in the T38 400 metres final and left Japan with two track gold medals.
Read more: 'I had the world against me': Kadeena Cox battled a stroke and MS to win gold in two sports
Currently living in Manchester, Kadeena recently beat fellow contestants Joe Swash and Megan McKenna to be crowned Celebrity MasterChef champion.
The former Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) physiotherapy student wowed judges with dishes such as torched salmon, tempura prawn and Caribbean curried goat pie.
Kadeena's favourite dishes from her childhood, which helped fuel her sporting success, are rice and peas, curried lamb and brown stew chicken.
And Kadeena's passion for cooking runs in the family.
Jasmin used to run her own Caribbean restaurant with her mum and her sister called Paradise in Leeds, which was a combination of English breakfast foods and Caribbean meals.
Jasmin, who works as a supervisor for a cleaning supply company, is one of six herself and has seven children: six girls and one boy, with Kadeena being third of the seven children.
She told the Manchester Evening News: "As a child, Kadeena ate brown stew chicken, curried lamb, rice and peas and plain rice. She ate a lot of different things. Kadeena never had any problem with vegetables.
“Food fuels her success because it gives her the energy she needs. It’s also nutritious.
“Occasionally, when she’s home, I cook for her. I’ve cooked for her since she’s been back [from the Tokyo Paralympics]. She tends to have her own strict diet because of her training. She’s very busy, so she’s only doing flying visits, most times, to mum."
Jasmin added: “At the moment, she is into fish with a lot of tomatoes and peppers. She usually has it with banana plantain, potatoes and stuff like that.
“We tend to eat traditional Caribbean cooking, as well as mixing it with English cooking. So, a mixture of cooking.
“When Kadeena is training, her meals tend to have a lot more greens and protein. She prepares meals beforehand, so she knows what she is eating every day."
Kadeena's Celebrity Masterchef victory was very exciting for the whole family.
Jasmin added: "It was great to see that she refined some of my Caribbean dishes. For instance, like Escovitch fish. We usually use a fish with bones and she refined it and used a fish without bones, which was really nice to see.
"I can’t wait for her to make that one for me."
Additionally, Jasmin revealed how she likes to put her own style on family meals that were passed down, which she hopes others can do with her recipes.
She added: "I was taught cooking by my grandmother and my mother. I put my own twist on each thing they taught me to cook, because I make it my own.
"Just enjoy it [the process of cooking]. You can put your own twist on anything. Everything you need, Asda has it. So you can just do it and you can always put your own twist on everything.
"Food gives unity and strength, especially as a family, when you come together to eat."
Jo Warner, Senior Director of Community at Asda added: "We’re excited to share our selection of medal worthy recipes that some of the world’s best athletes grew up eating, and still cook and eat to this day. If these dishes are good enough for some of Britain’s brightest role models, they’re certainly good enough for our dinner table!”
To recreate these dishes at home and shop the ingredients, visit https://groceries.asda.com/recipes/collections/curated/meals-that-made-them-recipes for the full recipes and to find out more about the Meals That Made Them campaign.
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