Meet Donna Hay. Australia’s leading food editor and best-selling cookbook author brings her accessible cooking style to Good Food in this UK Premiere series.
Her food, recipes and styling focuses on basic ingredients, simply prepared and beautifully photographed – hallmarks of her work that have set the benchmark for food publishing worldwide and inspired a whole new generation of cooks. Hay also serves as the editor-in-chief of Donna Hay Magazine, a bi-monthly magazine launched in 2001, with subsribers in over 82 countries! Donna also has her own homewares range, her own shop and has also appeared many times as a guest judge on MasterChef Australia. It’s safe to say, when it comes to empire building Donna is the Jamie Oliver of the Australian food industry.
In this series Donna creates delicious meals using her own clever short-cuts and tricks of the trade, and with her relaxed approach to food Donna shows that every home cook can prepare beautiful and great-tasting meals without any of the fuss.
Look out for mouth-watering recipes like baked pumpkin and sage risotto; baked whole lemon pudding; bacon and lentil soup; barbecued lamb, aubergine and haloumi; caramelised onion, potato and feta tart; cheat’s chocolate éclairs; cheat’s goat’s cheese soufflé with roasted beetroot salad; and chicken rice noodle salad with coconut dressing.