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    Welcome to Foodleclub!

    Hi and welcome. So glad you dropped by!

    A picture of VJ sitting in the garden

    I'm Veronica (otherwise known as VJ). I live with my husband, the lovely Graham,  in a little market town in Lincolnshire.

    Although I was born in England, I lived in South Africa for many years, and I think it's safe to say, a lot of South African influence has crept into my food. Twenty years ago I returned permanently to the UK where I've enjoyed rediscovering traditional English cookery!

    I've also been lucky enough to travel quite extensively to various countries around the world. Wherever I go I sample as much of the local cuisine as possible and try to pick up ideas that I can incorporate into my recipes.

    I've always done a lot of cooking

    Cooking has always been a big part of my life. With three children and their husbands and wives, four grandchildren and one great-grandson, it's safe to say I spent a good deal of my time in the kitchen.

    Most weekends saw us entertaining, and it wasn't uncommon to have 15 to 20 people around for a barbeque. I remember one memorable Christmas when we had 30 people for a sit-down Christmas dinner which I cooked myself. We moved all the furniture out of the lounge, hired in some tables and set up a mini restaurant.

    A Christmas table set for 30 people.

    It was great fun, especially when Santa popped his head in.

    A picture of me with my son and daughter, taken Christmas 2004

    What I like to cook

    I love to cook food from scratch! Yes, you can open a jar and tip it into whatever you're cooking, but in my opinion, there is nothing more satisfying than combining a mixture of fresh ingredients to create delicious meals.

    I don't specialise in any particular type of cooking. My ambition is to give all busy mums (and dads) easy ideas to get healthy and wholesome food on the table in as little time as possible.

    Here are a few of my favourite meals:

    • Close up of two pan-fried lamb chops on a white plate with sprigs of rosemary.
      Pan-fried lamb chops with garlic and rosemary
    • A dish of curried meatballs in onion gravy next to a bowl of white rice.
      Curried meatballs in onion gravy
    • Overhead shot of a brown serving dish of South African beef stew with a dish of white rice and a brown wooden serving spoon.
      South African beef bredie (beef stew)
    • A slice of Moroccan lamb pie on a white plate with two slices of roasted butternut squash.
      Moroccan lamb pie with apricots

    I also love baking and making desserts. These are a few of the recipes that my readers are currently loving.

    • A pile of crusty German bread rolls.
      Crusty German bread rolls (Brotchen)
    • Close up of a soft condensed milk rusk (or mosbolletjie) spread with butter.
      Condensed milk rusks (mosbolletjies)
    • A slice of pineapple coconut cake.
      Easy pineapple coconut cake with crushed pineapple
    • 2 blueberry cream cheese danish pastries drizzled with a sweet glaze on a cooling rack.
      Blueberry cream cheese Danish pastries

    My style of cooking

    My style of cooking is simple wholesome food. But I have to say I prefer to cook things from scratch. I don't use jars and packets of instant food from the supermarkets.

    Even my curries are made with my own blend of spices. You wouldn't believe the number of spice bottles I have in my spice rack. I find it so satisfying to know that if a meal tastes good it all down to my own efforts and not just from a packet that anyone can open.

    My two concessions to this would be frozen peas and puff pastry. Let's face it, even famous chefs use shop-bought puff pastry! And unless I'm snacking on fresh peas straight out of the pod there's no way I'm going to spend hours shelling peas when frozen petit pois taste so good!

    What you will find on this site

    I have almost 500 recipes on this site, all nicely categorised in an index so you can easily find what you are looking for.

    There's even a 'how to' category where I show you how to make basic pantry staples from scratch. A few examples are:

    • how to make butter
    • how to make pizza dough
    • how to make your own mayonnaise.

    If you don't know exactly what you are looking for and want to look around for inspiration, you can browse all my recipes in date order from newest to oldest.

    Each recipe comes with easy-to-follow steps, with images showing you what to do, and explaining why I do things in a certain way. So there's absolutely no danger that a recipe won't turn out exactly as it should.

    If you are a more experienced cook and don't want all the details, there's a Jump to Recipe button at the top of every post that will skip past the blurb and take you straight to the printable recipe card.

    There is also a comment section at the end of every post. If you've made a recipe and enjoyed it I'd love it if you would leave a star-rating and a comment so other readers can see how it turned out.

    Social and contact

    I have a facebook page where I publish all my recipes as and when I make them. You are welcome to follow me there.

    There is also my regular newsletter that I send out to notify readers whenever I post a new recipe. If you would like to subscribe to my newsletter I have a free cookery book containing 50 pages of some of my favourite dessert recipes that you can download.

    I don't accept guest posts on Foodleclub. These are all my own original recipes. However, I am open to developing recipes for brands. If you are a brand looking for this service, please email me at [email protected].

    And of course, if you have any questions or would just like a chat you can contact me on the same email! I'd love to hear from you.

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    A picture of Veronica in the garden in front of a pink-flowering shrub.

    Hi, I'm Veronica! Welcome to my little kitchen. Step inside and browse my collection of recipes collected over the years.

    More about me →

    Readers favourites

    These are my most viewed recipes:

    • Sliced silverside on a plate with carrots and potatoes.
      Slow-cooker beef silverside
    • Slices of oven-baked gammon on a serving dish.
      Easy oven-baked gammon
    • Overhead shot of a white serving bowl filled with beef and kidney stew. There is a large wooden spoon at the side of the bowl.
      Slow-cooker beef and kidney stew
    • A slice of bacon and egg pie on a plate
      Proper bacon and egg pie
    • A pile of crusty German bread rolls.
      Crusty German bread rolls (Brotchen)
    • A dish of twice-cooked pork belly garnished with sesame seeds and spring onions.
      Twice cooked pork belly - with a sticky glaze

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