This blog is our family’s new-fashioned kitchen notebook.
It’s not about mermaids. It’s not even about seaweed.
It’s about food, and some of our favourite family recipes and the fun we’ve had around that. Mermaid’s tresses are a delicious treat at our local Chinese restaurant. They’re not on the menu any more, but we still ask for that dish whenever we go there for dinner. And I’ve now learned how to make it.
So this kitchen notebook is a way of passing on recipes and memories to my daughter as she left home and wanted to know how to make something. It’s to help me find my favourite recipes. And it’s an attempt to rationalise the pile of recipe books on my shelf, on the coffee table, and spilling into a corner cupboard. And finally, it’s also become somewhere to post the odd photo of camping trips, bushwalks and even odd creatures in the garden.
Mermaid's tresses 
Hello, I do not know if your blog accepts awards, but here’s the Liebster for you: http://eatingwelldiary.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/a-gloomy-day-outside-but-bright-within-the-liebster-award-and-more-about-myself/ Do check it out if you wish to participate.
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i love the idea of this blog. i wish my mom is blogging about her delicious recipes, too! (smile) thank you for sharing!
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Thank you for your kind words. I have to admit: my own mother’s recipes will soon make it here too, and some of my grandmother’s.
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So sweet of you to do that for your daughter!
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Oh thank you.
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I started my blog for a similar reason – my son will be off to Uni in a couple of years and will have to cook for himself! I thought it would be nice to get a few recipes down for him but the blog has taken a life of it’s own now!
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Great minds think alike! I’m playing catch-up, though, as my first has just left home. You’re obviously better organised than I am. Thanks for dropping by.
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I love what you wrote here. This really can be the modern day family cookbook. What a great way to think of it. And I’ve already found myself more than once, pulling up my own blog to search for a recipe – whether it’s on my phone looking at the ingredient list at the market, or on my ipad at the stove top. I always get a chuckle out of that… (Goes with out saying that I also pull up tons of other blogs to check out recipes- like yours! I’m working on your Cream of Mushroom soup as we speak….)
-DM
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I don’t know how I missed this for so long. I am sorry. Thanks for the compliment, too. Like you, i’ve started having the laptop on the dining table for the recipes I have managed to enter.
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Thanks for stopping by my blog! This blog looks great…I will follow with interest!
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Thank you for your visit, and your great blog.
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I wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the Liebster Award. Follow this link for the details:
http://creatingbeautyinthekitchen.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/liebster-award-some-wonderful-fellow-bloggers-to-check-out/
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Thank you so much. I accept!
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So nice to meet you! I like that you are writing this blog for your daughter and as a family cookbook. That’s how and why I started mine too! So pleased to follow you! 🙂
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Thank you so much. There seem to be a few of us who are blogging for the same reason.Maybe we should form the ‘cooking for our kids’ consortium!
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yes, great idea! 🙂
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I wanted to let you know that I have nominated you for the Versatile blogger award – http://wp.me/p3Nc97-vT. Have a lovely day!
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Thank you so much. I am so very honoured.
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Am so glad to have found your blog! Following you.
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Hello Home Cook-
You have a lovely blog- I will keep you in mind when I’m looking for a recipe. It’s so wonderful you were inspired by your daughter to create your blog.
I appreciate that you stopped by my blog and gave it a “follow.” I hope you will continue to enjoy my nature-focused theme.
~Jane
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I love the name Mermaid’s tresses. Your blog looks inspiring!
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Thank you so much 🙂
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You have an interesting blog….LoVe your style!!!
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Thanks so much
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Love it! I’m kinda doing the same with my blog. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
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Just wanted to let you know I’ve enjoyed your blog and have nominated you for the Creative Blogger Award! http://justwhiskedaway.com/2015/05/13/thank-you/
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Thank you so much!
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I am a year round organic veggie gardener in Phoenix Arizona. I have come to follow your blog to be inpired by your recipes.
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Thanks so much. I haven’t updated anything for a while as I’ve been a bit busy, but there’s a long list of yummy things to post, sooner or later.
Arizona … all we know about that here is that it’s desert. There must be more than that, or how else could you have a veggie garden?
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