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And now for an update……… January 2017

As you can see, I’ve been very quiet on the blogging front for over six months now but with the new year I am hoping to get back into regular posting.

While I’ve been away life has continued at it’s usual frantic pace, I am now working as a school cook, trying, and succeeding, to get rid of premade food and introducing homemade food with attitude but no additives and preservatives. It has been a learning curve but one that I am loving!

Unfortunately, my youngest son was diagnosed with coeliacs nearly nine months ago so I have had to ramp up my gluten free cooking but we are getting there.

Anyhoo, I am looking forward to another year of family cooking and hopefully you will find some recipes in here that you and yours can enjoy too!

Thanks for all of your support, Ros.

 

Hi Everyone.

I am a mum of three rapidly growing boys, wife of a busy husband and owner of a dog and three chooks. Oh, and as I type we have several tanks of tadpoles at various stages of development, the joys of boys in the house!

Life in my house can be rather chaotic, sporting commitments, after school commitments, social lives and work make me a little time poor on certain days of the week.

This has lead me to develop quick and easy fail safe recipes that fit in with our busy lives.

Just to mix it up a little I have coeliacs too so often what I cook is gluten free too, I am lazy, I don’t cook different dishes for different family members and that includes me!

I live in the Perth Hills in Western Australia, a truly beautiful corner of the world and a wonderful place to bring up children.

Before we settled here five years ago we lead an expat life, we have lived in the States, Indonesia and Russia and I was brought up in Scotland so we have fairly international tastes in our food and the boys have had their palates exposed to many of the worlds cuisines.

I hope to post new recipes every couple of days as time permits! So, pop by often to see what has been going on in my kitchen.

Thanks.

Ros.

 

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  1. I adore quick and fail-safe recipes. (But really, who wouldn’t?) 🙂 Kudos to you for cooking for your family amid all of the craziness life brings. What a gift you are giving them!

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  2. Hi Ros! I would like to check all of your posts and surely I will love them. This is Mark from the Philippines and I have been wanting to go to Australia to study cooking. And a comment on your posts, generally, they look spacey (to me at least), specially the list of ingredients when you write them down. Nonetheless, your food looks great!

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  3. Love this. We have 4 growing children and struggle to have enough time as well. We live in the states and try hard to cook nutritional and good food. Thanks for liking us on wordpress. Good luck in the New Year!

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  6. Thanks for stopping by and liking my post. Your recipes look very yummy! I can relate to tadpoles – my boys had some in the house last year, lol, and I’ll probably see more again this spring.

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  7. Hi Ros! Thanks so much for dropping by. I can see we have a similar mission of feeding a house full of hungry boys. You’ve got some fabulous recipes posted already. I can’t wait to see more.

    Best wishes,
    Allison

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  9. Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you try the squash risotto and enjoy it. I see you are in Australia. My sister lives there and what a beautiful country! But I haven’t been to Perth yet! Maybe someday 🙂 Have a good one.

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  17. Hi, just popping in to say that I think your blog is great and I’d like to congratulate you with the Liebster Award. Should you choose to accept this award there are more details back on my blog page. Keep up the great work! Can’t wait to read more.

    Xx California Flour

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  24. Hi! I really enjoy your tex-mex recipes. Not sure I can get all the ingredients, though… I’ll go foraging in one of the “foreign” shops on Saturday to see if I can find chipotle ANYTHING.

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    1. Hi Deborah, if you can’t find anything locally maybe online? Another cheat might be to use smoked paprika and chilli powder to give you the heat and smokiness? I have also sometimes substituted chillies that I have blackened on the BBQ or over a gas flame to get some smokey flavour. Hope that helps and good luck! 🙂 Ros

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      1. Thanks for the tip. I have smoked paprika and Hubby brought me domes chilies from Mexico… I’ll have to try to figure out what type they are.

  26. Hi Ros. Thnx for stopping by. Lovely blog you have here and I can identify with you and your life with boys. Will be dropping by to see what’s up in your kitchen. Love khush

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  27. Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog. Yours looks great – keen to try some gluten free options for my hungry boys too!

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  30. Hi Ros,
    Thank you for liking my blog post on a gluten free pie recipe. Let me know what you think if you happen to make one?

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  34. Thanks for stopping by my blog! Two of my really good friends are on gluten free diets so I totally hear you on the challenges, but also the satisfaction of creating a like for like.

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  35. Hi Ros, thanks for stopping by at peteshomecooking.
    I tend to do most of the cooking at home and try to post my more infrequent and original dishes. New to this blog lark though so its scant so far.
    I’ll have a poke around on you one and try to give you some positive feedback.

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  38. Thanks so much for liking my first post.
    I love your blog, especially the time saving ideas. So nice to hear you’re a fellow Perthian. What a beautiful part of the world we live in 🙂

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  39. Life is busy! Good for you for fitting a blog in amongst all you have to do. (thanks for the “like” on my blog this morning.)

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  40. Thank you for liking a few of my recipes – I love your blog too! Even though we are worlds apart, shared family cooking experiences is what its all about. I know you probably dont need blogging award nominations but I’ve nominated you on my list – hopefully it will generate a few new followers for both of us. (And my husbands brother moved to PErth with his wife and 2 kids in 2010 so lovely to get a feel for what its like to live there!)
    Nomination details at
    https://mollyrogerscooks.wordpress.com/
    Happy Cooking!!

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    1. Thank you so much mollyrogerscooks, that’s really kind of you! It always amazes me how we can connect via a wee blog! Bet your family are loving Perth, it is a fab place to live! 🙂 Ros

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  44. You are a brave soul traipsing about the world. I have to hand it to you and yours for remaining flexible and adaptable! Food is indeed the great equalizer and an easy way to get acquainted. I’ll stop in now and again to see what you are up to. Thanks for sopping by the Quincho!

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  47. Hi, thanks for visiting my new blog, I am doing a baking month next month and will def be trying your shortbread, cinnamon and coconut are 2 of my fave flavours 🙂

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  49. Hi Ros , Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m so glad to have come here. Your recipes surely encourage me to try all of them. Do post in more photos of the recipes if possible to make it easier for us amateurs to make them. 🙂

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    1. Hi Divs, thanks for popping by! Unfortunately I probably won’t manage more photos showing the different stages as I normally just take a snap as the food is plated and going to the table! Not enough minutes in the day!!! 🙂 Ros

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