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Here’s what you WILL find on Stonesoup…

* Quick, easy to follow recipes that are hard to mess up.
* New ideas for ways to use commonplace ingredients.
* Inspiration to get out of your cooking rut and make tasty, simple meals.
* Fresh, healthy ideas using real whole food.
* Variations to suit your dietary requirements or if you’re missing ingredients.
* Encouragement to try new (simple) things.
* A unique approach to take the stress out of coming up with good food at the last minute.

Here’s what you WON’T find…

x Ingredients lists as long as your arm.
x Intimidating recipes or techniques.
x Specialised kitchen utensils.
x Fancy or difficult-to-find ingredients.
x Boring, generic recipes.

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About the author

Hi there! My name is Jules Clancy.

I’m a first and foremost a food lover who adores her veggies. The type of girl who plans her holidays around restaurant reservations.

In my last job I had an hour commute each way. And that was on a good day. So I started to challenge myself to come up with healthy meals that still tasted great in the shortest time possible. I found that by keeping my ingredient list to around 5 items, I was able to get dinner on the table in as little as 10 minutes.

And the thing that kept surprising me was just how good these simple, fresh meals tasted. I was even able to keep my fiance happy and he has VERY high standards when it comes to food.

I have a degree in food science but I’m not a nerd, really. In January 2010, I packed in my day job as a chocolate biscuit designer for Australia’s largest biscuit company to follow my dream of cooking and writing about food for a living.

The other thing you should know about me is that I love simplicity and making things as quick and easy as possible. I just adore the fact that I’ve been able to combine my two passions for good food and simplicity in my blog and my business.

I founded the Stonesoup Virtual Cookery School because I believe that the ability to cook simple, healthy, delicious food is a basic skill, like reading, that everyone should and can have.

When I’m not cooking, writing about food or taking photographs [of food], I can be found indulging my passions for long boozy lunches, travel, running, cookbooks, growing my own veggies, cheese, red shoes and Irishmen, [OK one Irishman in particular].

For more about me check out my story HERE.

About my food philosophy

As I am constantly discovering, when you strip food back to the essentials and let the ingredients speak for themselves, it can only mean good things from a flavour perspective.

Don’t let anyone, especially those cheffy types, convince you that you need ‘layers of flavour’ and an ingredients list as long as your arm. That’s one style of cooking that can taste great if someone else is preparing it and cleaning up.

For home cooking, I believe that keeping the number of ingredients and the steps involved to a minimum is where it’s at.

My philosophy as to what constitutes healthy eating is that veggies are the way forward. I’ve dabbled in vegetarianism but am much happier as an omnivore.

Inspired by Tim Ferriss’ Slow Carb diet and Gary Taubes’ great book ‘Why We Get Fat’, I have been mostly replacing grains in my diet with vegetables since the beginning of 2011 and am incredibly happy with the results. I also try and minimise my sugar intake but tend to have a sweet indulgence at least once a week.

I’m also firmly a believer in the health benefits of dark chocolate and red wine (although not necessarily together).

About my recipes

Most of the recipes on Stonesoup contain only 5 ingredients and are designed to be made in minutes. However, if you dig back in the archives, you will find more complicated dishes from my pre-minimalist days.

I always take great care to make my recipes as straight forward and logical as possible. Given that the Stonesoup readership is from all over the world, I include both metric and imperial measurements.

If you come across any problems please, please drop me a line so we can figure it out. I’d hate to be responsible for a kitchen catastrophe.

About the title

For the story behind why I called my blog stonesoup click HERE.

About the photography

All the photography on this site has been taken with my trusty Nikon D700. I find that natural light is critical for appealing food photography so have given up trying to take photos at night.

I believe that with food, just as in life, there is beauty in imperfection. My food styling philosophy is to keep everything as natural and simple as possible and most of all for it still to be real and edible after the picture has been taken. No trickery or elaborate props here.

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Contact

by email | jules[at]thestonesoup[dot]com
on pinterest | www.pinterest.com/julesclancy/
on twitter | @jules_stonesoup
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