Everyone knows that Donna Hay is a cookbook icon and each year when one of her cookbooks come out (15 with a 16th out in May this year) eager hordes of people flock to the bookstore to buy the latest book. They’re always lushly photographed and yet the recipes still manage to be achievable. It’s that wonderful cooking equation: looks complicated yet requires minimal effort which is totally addictive and why I adore her books. Plus she is a lovely lady too!
A Cook’s Guide is her newest book which has a cherry picked selection of the best from the How to Cook section from Donna Hay magazine. It shows you the best, basic cooking techniques and recipes-she shows you how to make your own curry paste, gnocchi, roasts, carpaccio, flatbread, sponge cake, scones, souffles, cheesecake and pavlovas but also incorporates variation suggestions so that you can mix it up. An example is the pavlova chapter which has a basic pavlova recipe but also recipe variations such as almond pavlova stack, rosewater pavlovas with blueberries, chocolate and raspberry pavlovas and brown sugar cupcake pavlovas all using the same basic pavlova methodology.
What if you could get an autographed copy of A Cook’s Guide signed by the lady herself? Well that’s what we’re giving away today! One lucky winner will win a copy of A Cooks Guide (signed by Donna) as well as a copy of Fast, Fresh, Simple; Instant Entertaining and No Time to Cook! For a chance to win this pack all you have to do is tell me which is your favourite Donna Hay cookbook! Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at midnight AEST 4th of June, 2011. You can enter this competition once daily and it is open to anyone within Australia.
***The winner is: Merryn G. of NSW!***
Best of luck!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
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Instant Entertaining!! How fun!! good luck to all who enter!!
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I have never purchased a Donna Hay cookbook but have purchased the kids issue of her magazine for my daughter. I stumbled across this competition from another site (looking for a recipe for cake pops to make with my daughters) and thought I just had to enter for my 9 year old daughter who in pretend play will name Donna as her mum, when I questioned where the name Donna came from she said Donna Hay. My Daughter loves to cook and with all the cooking shows on TV Donna has obviously become a favourite of hers I think A Cooks Guide would become a bible to my daughter as she learns to cook.
Her books always have THE most gorgeous food photos. I practically want to eat the pages. Hmm, probably less caloric than the real thing. LOL But not nearly as tasty.
Instant Entertaining is my favourite. I’ve used it heaps of times when I have visitors and am in a hurry. It has the menus already set out and never fails to impress. Love the look on people’s faces when they see the recipes and go “is that all?”. I am all for big impact low effort!
Seasons because this book makes good use of seasonal produce.
Classics 2! I’m a sucker for sweets
I love “Off the Shelf” – I have used many recipes over the years, in particular the basic speedy brownie. Always a hit, you can’t go wrong!
My favourite is ‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ because it is.
I don’t know which my favourite is, I’ve never used one! (*shock/horror*) I do love her recipes in the Sunday magazine but I haven’t yet bought a cookbook of hers. Perhaps I can let you know once I win
They would have to be the Classics Vol 1 & 2. To me they are Donna Hay – inspirations and variations of an idea and basic recipe.
I love the Cook’s Guide – I’m a sucker for almanac style cookbook and complete with Donna Hay photographies, tick and tick!
Oh this would be a fabulous thing to win-too bad for me living millions of miles away where the book stores do not carry this author:-( Phoooey and pout
No Time to Cook. That sounds like me. I mean, who has time to spend hours in the kitchen when cooking for one busy gal!?
What a wonderful prize! I love Donna Hay’s cookbooks. My favourite though would have to be Seasons, it’s just so beautiful. It’s beautiful to sit and flip through and contains absolutely delicious recipes.
My favourite is Off the Shelf. It was the first Donna Hay book I bought and it got me really into cooking, preparing my food to take to work every day. From there onwards I subscribed to the mags -it’s been nearly 6 years now receiving them. and I have nearly all the books.
I don’t how many people have asked me for the recipe for the “toasted pine nut and sweet potato salad” in “The Instant Cook”…it’s become one of my signature dishes, best salad ever!
Fast, fresh and simple! I love all the recipes. Every one that I’ve tried from the TV series has been super easy but delicious.
Seasons -I’m a sucker for the idea of eating by the seasons, especially in perth where the seasonal changes tend to be subtle.
My favourite Donna Hay cookbook is The Instant Cook. I have not been much of a cook until recent years. It dawned on me that I would have to apply really myself to making good food at home and then I could actually be a good cook. So in the last 3 years I have embraced home cooking with a confidence I never had in the past. Of course I have become a collector of cook books along the way. I don’t have a big collection but I am working on it. Donna Hay is amazing and I wish I had all of her books!
Off the Shelf is my favourite, I can always find something to make from things in my pantry. Love Donna Hay!
The next one, always the next one because it’s sure to be as good as the rest!
Absolute shock and horror – amongst my hundreds and hundreds of cookbooks collected over many decades there is none written by Donna Hay!! How is that possible for a foodie? I simply do not know!
I have, however, used many of the lady’s fab recipes from magazines and have very much appreciated her warm persona on TV! I suppose that does not make me worthy of a first Donna Hay on my shelves! 
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All of them! As an 18 year old who has just discovered the joys of cooking, her cook books are invaluable to me. I love her carefree style and inspiring presentation but most of all how she makes it so beautifully easy.
Seasons. We have a large veggie garden and Donna’s recipes inspire what gets planted. Such fun watching, waiting, cooking and finally, eating!
My Instant Entertaining is nearly falling apart with wear but I have to say that having read the posts about the other books I suspect I will be rushing out to buy several others this weekend!
with limited time to cook fast, fresh simple is a firm favorite in our household
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ as it suits my lifestyle.
I love Donna Hay! I have a few of her books but for me it has to be Classics 2, I love making biscuits, cakes and desserts and everything I have tried of hers is always a huge success!
I think the Simple Essentials books would be my favorite (If I owned any, lol). I use the website, and her magazines.
Thanks to Donna Hay’s fast fresh & simple recipe book, our beautiful daughter cooked US & friends chicken with haloumi and honey. It was absolutely superb! Thanks Donna Hay!!!
I’m the type of cook that makes Bridget Jones’s blue soup taste great but thanks to Donna Hay and the easy to follow instructions in Instant Entertaining I was able to pull off a 3 course meal for my friends.
i love donna hay! i never bought a book of her but i bought her magazine in christmas.i always borrow her book from library or cut her recipies from the sunday magazine. i have a folder full of her recipies. i reall like her seasons and fast , freash&simple cookbook.goodluck everyone!
I love Off The Shelf. One of my favourite recipes is her balsamic chicken with eggplant and tomatoes. Easy, and tasty!
I got my first Donna Hay book 9 years ago which was Marie Claire Flavours. I now have her Classics 1, Instant Entertaining and Simple Essentials Salads + Vegetables. Flavours still remains my favourite because it was my introduction to the cooking world and covers flavours from chilli to chocolate. I still use it!
Seasons is the reason
when I need to cook I go take a look!! inspirational!
Ah Lorraine! ‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ – they’re the 3 attributes of good home cooking allowing you to delight in great produce.
Fresh, Fast and Simple because the recipes are umm..Fresh, Fast and Simple!
I love Seasons – I got it for my 21st. It has some lovely recipes which I have cooked a lot, but it also makes a great coffee table book because of the beautiful pictures… but A Cook’s Guide sounds pretty good, especially the chocolate & raspberry pavlova recipe!
Oh, the cookbooks sound groovy
I’d like to make the brown sugar cupcakes. Now.
I shall google immediately. xx
no time to cook,because i dont but its helped a lot
My favourite Donna Hay is No Time To Cook and it has traveled with me all over the world. I love it. I would be delighted to win the book pack as I’m SURE I’d fall in love with the others too!
i got given modern classics book 1 and since ive been visiting her store every fortnight! my favourite would have to be simple essentials- chocolate cos no one can have enough chocolate and sometimes chocolate by the block gets a bit bland, no matter how nice the chocolate is!
keep up the good work NQN!
I’ve never purchased one of her cookbooks for myself, only as gifts. I love the photography in them – so clean and simple. One of my good friends is obsessed with DH recipes, so whenever I eat at her house I am always treated to a delicious meal
Heidi xo
I believe this latest book would be the best, as it shows you how to cook.
Instant Entertaining!!! Just adore it!!
i do not have any donna hay books, but im interesting in owning any, i know shes a brilliant cook
My first cookbook when I landed in Australia 6 years ago was her modern desserts book. I
Ooops, pressed enter too fast~ Anyway! I felt compelled to own something Aussie through and through, and up til now, when I look at the book, it reminds me of how enthralled I was with Lygon street and everything.
I don’t own any Donna Hay cookbooks, I am dreaming of winning this one.
Instant Entertaining, never fails to impress my guests and makes me feel like a clever chef.
Fast, Fresh and Simple – “Good produce should always speak for itself” Donna Hay captures this sentiment perfectly!!
Food fast..her first.
Have made so many delicious recipes from this book
pasta with smoked salmon & dill
sauce
pasta with shredded chicken and fried basil
crisp pancetta baked pork fillet
salt and five spice chicken
parmesan crusted chicken
salad of lamb noodles and peanuts
little chocolate brownies
vanilla simmered quince
Yummy..now I am so hungry!
I have a MILLION cookbooks, but NOT ONE Donna Hay amongst them! I can guess which one would BECOME my favourite tho…”A cooks guide”, just how you’ve described the pavlova recipes alone! I love variations! it’s 100% the way I cook…read a recipe…replace this with that, take out some of this…pop in some of that
I want to know how she does the pavlova cup cakes NOW!! Sounds DELIGHFUL! 
I’m a cake girl, so Modern Classics 2, especially Simple Lemon Cake. Yummo!
Simple Essentials Chocolate is my favourite – what chocoholic wouldn’t love it???
fast, fresh, simple
I love her new takes on classics, especially the ones that save you so much time & effort!
I am loving Fast Fresh Simple!
I love Donna Hay! Her pictures were the first food porn I enjoyed.
I really need to move to AU…
Fast, Fresh and Simple
Hmmmm…favourite Donna Hay cookbook? Her next one!
I always find that her recipes are easy to achieve, and the finished result is (almost) always the same as her pics. I am a particular fan of ‘Off The Shelf’, I must say, but they’re all great for those days when you are seeking inspiration. 
As a poor cook, I’m always envious of those that can produce yummy food like that. Need more practice I think
Entertaining – I love the different sections for different occasions and her ideas for using traditional Aussie ingredients in innovative ways.
Fast, Fresh & Simple, is for sure my fav. But I love getting the Sunday paper to see what recipes are in it from Donna. I could look at the images in her books for hours!
Sally
I’m a country girl at heart and love my sweets so my absolute favourite book is Modern Classics Book 2. It’s full of the good things in life cookies, cakes, deserts, hot puddings. Need I say more.
Instant entertaining! It is my go to cookbook when having guests around.
I love ‘Fast, Fresh, Simple’; it has a nice balance between achievable weeknight dinners using common ingredients, and special occasion meals as well. Being a student in a sharehouse it’s great to have a break from the usual dahl/casserole dinners. Plus I’m a sucker for buying vegies in bulk at the end of market day, so it’s great to have so many recipes using nice, fresh ingredients!
I would love a new cookbook to keep me company on my nightstand.
My favourite is “The Instant Cook”. Great simple recipes that always get the greatest reaction around the dinner table – silence as everyone is too busy eating! I know that “Fast, Fresh and Simple” will be fabulous as I watch her TV show on Austar each Tuesday salivating in anticipation of her next dish. Even my welcome line on my facebook page was “Donna Hay is my guru”. Love her, love her.
My favourite Donna Hay cookbook by far is Instant Entertaining. They are all so simple and absolutely delicious – I’ve cooked nearly all of them!
If I had a food blog it would be notquitedonna.com! I adore Donna & all her cookbooks are on high rotation in my kitchen. My absolute favourite is Modern Classics Book 2 – not a week goes by when I don’t bake something from it [this week it was vanilla snap biscuits].
My favourite is Fast, Fresh & Simple. My wonderful sister sends me the Donna Hay magazines because I live in Texas, USA. I would love to be able to “win” these amazing books for her as she lives in Sydney.
Was thinking of getting her latest cookbook – a cook’s guide – cos I don’t own any, but now that there is a chance to win it…. count me in.
I never buy recipe books but after realising cooking a special dinner for me and my boyfriend’s first year anniversary, I realised what a terrible cook I actually was. The first recipe book I ever purchased was Donna Hay’s ‘The Instant Cook’. I love to say that I can cook some of the best dishes now that I’ve read it! She’s really inspired me and picked me up off the ground!
Seasons – there is nothing like a Donna Hay recipe teamed with fresh in season produce. Nothing is simpler – or tastier!
Food Fast: I’ve had this more than 10 years and it is still probably my most-used and without doubt my most inspiring cookbook. I have tried virtually every recipe and have scrawled notes all over the pages to remind me of variations I’ve tried and dishes that my hubby or kids have particularly loved. With preparation time starting from 10 minutes then providing I’ve managed to find time for shopping that week, no matter how tired or busy we are I can virtually always get a meal on the table before a takeaway could have been delivered.
donna hay chocolate is my favorite so many tasty reciped in there the self saucing choc pud is to die for.
Is it cheating to say this one, because I do love a good meringue-based dessert?
Instant Entertaining. Love it, use it quite a lot, especially when the family get together.
your readers are lucky !!
cheers de Paris
pierre
Totally love Fast, Fresh & Simple. The recipes are ever soooo achievable. One doesn’t have to go to great lenghts to get the ingredients and once you have the ingredients, you can almost always come up with the goods! Unless you haven’t followed the recipe
Instant Entertaining
Fast, Fresh, Simple, exactly how I love my meals and cooking them.
No time to cook is the one i have, i love her no fuss attitude, all her books are presented so beautifully!
instant entertaining because it’s fast, i’m not furious, and i can relax
I have a dog-eared copy of Food Fast from the 1990s that I still use regularly. I love that her style has remained pretty consistent over the years.
My fave book would have to be “instant entertaining” – the title is only one word off from instant noodles but one hundred times the taste and ‘wow’ factor.
“Simple Essentials Christmas” is just beautiful to look through before you even get down to cooking. A must for every home.
Definitely the Fast, fresh, simple. I survived the easter break by cooking and baking with my 11yo daughter with the help of donna hay’s easy, no fuss recipe which my daughter has no difficulty following. Now she has a portfolio of recipes which she can confidently cook and bake. She especially loves the pumpkin soup,panna cotta and the chocolate fondant.
It was quality time well spent with my daughter. Thanks, Donna Hay.
I don’t own any of Donna’s cookbooks but buy her magazine all the time which is amazing. Her special on maple syrup a while back was just to die for! Pete loved the homemade baked bean recipe with maple syrup, was delish
I love “The Instant Cook” – I’ve just moved out of home and without it I’m sure I would starve… Or at the very least be living off frozen meals!
My favorite is Fast, fresh & simple!! Love all the recipe as they are soo quick and yum! Very excited about her new book, sounds great
No Time to Cook is the first cookbook I bought years ago! I love it because it’s hard to cook for just two people (the desserts for 2 serves are excellent!) and the recipes are simple enough to get the man cooking!
What a fabulous prize! I love the sound of the ‘A Cook’s Guide’. I love cookbooks that feature step-by-step basics and essentials, with variations – perfect!
My favourite Donna Hay cookbook is ‘Instant Entertaining’, because I find planning & cooking for a group the trickiest thing in the kitchen.
Fast, Fresh and Simple – as I have a One ‘Snack’ Mind!
Off the Shelf – as I’m still left on the shelf, it’s something i’m aspiring to!
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no time to cook, easily wins hands down.
always really fast, tasty foods!
The only one I have is the chocolate simple essentials one which I love. I’d love more though, these ones are the perfect style of cooking in my opinion – minimum fuss and effort with outstanding results
I do love my food fast cookbook but I am loving the recipes from the show fast fresh simple more, I don’t actually have the book. This is an awesome prize, I’m glad you say she is a lovely lady – it’s hard to tell with celebrity chefs just seeing them on tv
Fast Fresh Simple. Everything works and tastes as good as it looks. Thanks Ann-Michel
My favourite would be her “the instant cook” cookbook, it has a lot of easy and quick recipes, it also has a lot of tips and tricks for time saving. Thanks so much for giving us all the chance to win
Love Donna’s books and magazines! The great thing is that after a long day at work you can throw together a fabulous meal just because of the inspiration in her books and mags. She shows you that delicious tasting food isn’t difficult to cook. Would love to cook up a storm with her latest books.
From a:
Lawyer who loves to cook
Instant Entertaining is my all-time favourite. It’s such a beautiful book to read and the recipes are so simple but delicious!
No Time to Cook
Of course!
This book
Is
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Everyday favourite as
The recipes
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Can be made
Oh so quickly and the
Oooohs and aaaahhs
Keep me motivated!
Nooo why are they always only open to Australian residents?
Oh well, I’ll just browse her website instead 
Looking through, my favourite is probably the Chocolate one, it’s a no brainer!
Donna Hay always works her styling magic. I saw the way she divided out the judging portions on Junior Masterchef… styling comes so effortlessly to her.
Hands down No Time To Cook – Less cleaning and simple ingredients, makes me a legend in the kitchen to my unsuspecting partner and saves us from moving mushrooms in our takeaway!
My favourite book by Donna Hay is called the Seasons. I try to only cook food that is season as it tastes and best and is at its freshest.!
I love turning every page at the start of a new season and seeing what great ideas Donna has come up with.
I have a couple of Donna’s books and although I’ve used the Classics 2 book a lot, a have to admit that I really love one of her magazines, which I bought ages ago, the most! It has fabulous recipes, tips and great photography too! Unfortunately, I have too many other magazine subscriptions, so I’m not allowed to commit to Donna’s magazine just yet!
After droooling over the article have to say A Cook’s Guide.
Just love pavlova.
I love No Time to Cook – I bought it from the David Jones Foodhall a while ago because it looked so nice on the shelves and the recipes are so simple and delicious! I have been trying out a lot of the recipes instead of buying food at the uni outlets in order to save money.
I’m a big fan of Classics 2, Donna’s recipes always manage to make me look like a culinary genius!
I have seen her new book, A cook’s guide. It’s really good.
yes, sadly, just like one of the respondents above, i can not claim to have a favourite as i do not own any of her books. I was a subscriber to her magazine, which I called my ‘food porn fix’, until it became too expensive as i had a child and became a single parent.
I would love to win any of her books.
thank you.
Fast, Fresh & Simple. The kids loved it!
fast,fresh and simple just like me all adds up to more quality time with family
I love a woman who loves good food …)
Modern classics box set are my fave. One of them contains the best cheesecake recipe ever… I even won a work bake off competition with this awesome cake. Love it.
Met Donna got her to sign my copy of f/f/s it sits by my bed and I run my hands over her signature every night in admiration for a great gal. My all time fav donna c/b is a twin pack back in the early years it is a box set “Modern Day Classics 1 and 2″ I have used every recipe in these two books over the years…they are simple,classic and oh so loved my me.
Fast, Fresh, Simple is my favourite. All the recipes are so tasty and easy to put together when you’re in a rush to feed the hungary hoards.
I love her book Seasons. Not only are the recipes wonderful in all of her books and the magazine, but the styling is amazing.
I’ll keep my fingers and toes crossed regarding the giveaway since I have an Aussie address now.
Fast, Fresh & Simple…. easy, fool-proof cookbook allowing amateur cooks to look like professionals in our culinary skills!
Thanks Donna Hay!
Definitely Donna Hay Classics 2 being my all time favourite since i LOVE making desserts, and don’t even get me started on how amazing every single photo in that book looked…
Simple Essentials – Chocolate does it for me! When it comes to cooking, I have two left feet… I bought this book as a gift for my wife, and have even attempted the triple chocolate semifreddo myself, much to our friends’ delight! What with Mother’s Day just around the corner, what better way to extend our Donna Hay collection than with a book set like this!
My favourite has to be “Chocolate”!! when i’m stressed, i cook. and cooking with chocolate is definitely my ultimate comfort!
How about ALL of them!!!
What an awesome prize, Lorraine!
My favourite would have to be No Time To Cook.
Never fail recipes where the final meal looks so much more complex than the effort required.
SSG xxx
Tough choice, but Classics 1 for me. I love Seasons for the gorgeous styling and inspiration, but I find myself going back to Classics 1 time and time again for quick everyday meals.
No time to cook…. as who has time to spend hours cooking during the week
My favourite Donna Hay book would have to be “Off the Shelf”. When time is short I find the “out of the pantry” approach very inviting. Her illustrations are always inspiring.
Definitely Christmas! Donna does the most amazing Christmas recipes – gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! I was give a subscription to Donna Hay magazine for mother’s day one year and have kept it going her since – beautiful, classic and inspirational. Do you watch her show? Fantastic!
Off the shelf is my one & only,
It lives on my coffee table & never gets lonely!
Instant Entertaining and No Time to Cook,
Sounds to me it’ll be, my next favourite Book!
My favourite Donna Hay would have to be Marie Claire Cooking. 10 years later I still return to that book regularly and in my humble opinion was a groundbreaker as far as photography and styling in addition obviously to delicious uncomplicated recipes. Her books have now been copied in style (the ultimate compliment). This has made Donna Hay stand out from the pack.
I have five of her books but amazingly not one from the giveaway set. I am very much enjoying her television series “Fast Fresh Simple” on the Lifestyle channel.
I love Seasons because all the pictures are so beautiful they easily transport you to a hot summer picnic or a brisk autumn walk in a instant. But for recipe its has to be Modern Classics volume 2 purely for the triple chocolate chip cookie recipe. I made these once in London for my nephews birthday party and can’t tell you how many compliments they received. Even when we moved back to oz and sold most of my cook books at car boot, that recipe was copied word for word into my scrap book, to make sure I never lost such a delicacy.
I, unfortunately, don’t own any of Donna’s books
But every time I’m in a book store, and or in David Jones, I always pick one of her books to browse for a couple of minutes, wishing I had the money to buy it.
If I had to pick one that I love looking at (a hard decision!!), it’d be Modern Classics 2… desserts… yum!!
I love the Seasons cookbook, its so easy to find the perfect recipe at the perfect time.
Modern Classics 1&2. They came in a box set and I just love them. I also more than a few well thumbed DH magazines on the shelf as well.
Time to add some more
My favourite Donna Hay cookbook is Donna Hay Seasons because it is just so beautiful to look at as well as being packed with great seasonal recipes.
I have and regularly refer to her old cookbooks she wrote through Marie Claire. The “how to” pages are most useful, as is her website which has recipe sections that makes searching for what you want much easier.
I really like “A Cooks Guide” because it helps beginners like myself get the basics right.
fast, fresh, simple,every recipe i have made from donnS T.V SHOW HAS BEEN A BIG SUCCESS THANKS//
FAST, FRESH, SIMPLE, EVERY RECIPE I HAVE Made from donnas t.v show has been a great success &so simple
Seasons…., or maybe Marie Claire, oh I don’t know, I’m going to have to just enter every day to name them all because I love her recipes, I’ve never had a fail… awesome prize Lorraine.
Donna Hay: Modern Classics 1.
The failsafe guide to high teas. Quick, efficient, reliable recipes that never fail to impress. Modern Classics brings the best interpretations of recipes from yesteryear whilst leaving the curried eggs behind!
Instant entertaining for sure! Talk about positive effort for reward ratio!
My favourite cookbook in the Donna Hay range is Simple Essentials – Chocolate. I’m a chocoholic and this book has some deadly and delicious recipes!
YES PLEASE! I really really need a ‘A COOK’S GUIDE’ for a cook with ‘NO TIME TO COOK’ any ‘FAST, FRESH, SIMPLE’ food for ‘INSTANT ENTERTAINING’.
My favourite of Donna’s books is ‘the instant cook’ because three of my all time favourite recipes are from that book.
My favourite Donna Hay cookbook would definitely be ‘Food Fast’ solely because of her ‘Little Chocolate Brownies’ recipe that is ALWAYS a certain crowd pleaser! I call them my little chocolate snacky cakes.
Hi! My favourite Donna Hay book is “Fast, fresh and simple” that helped going into the Aussi culinary habits!
I like The Instant Cook because I never have a lot of time to turn out a meal and we live to far out of town to go for a takeaway.
fast, fresh and simple as the less complicated the better I say – more time to enjoy with friends and family
i like donna hay’s ‘Fast, Fresh, Simple’ Book~
I love the clean, simple and beautiful food styling photographs in it!
Ohn…that maple syrup bacon caesar salad was also an eye-catcher! =)
Instant Entertaining is my go to book when last minute friends drop by!
I absolutely love my chocolate bible, “Simple Essentials Chocolate” … My partner is a big chocaholic and it makes him very happy when I pull it out
As I have a sweet tooth, I cannot resist trying the different recipes from Simple Essentials Chocolate. This book was given to me by my niece on my birthday two years ago and since using the recipes in this book all my chocolate desserts are always a hit with family and friends.
My favourite is Modern Classics 1. There are so many beautiful & easily achieved recipes. Definitely a staple in our household.
My favourite would be the kids entertaining issues that come out every year! Not so much a cookbook but it has easy recipes in it plus wonderful ideas for my 5 year old daughters’ birthday parties!!
Hi Lorraine ….. i would say the modern classics book 1 changed the way i cook … it just had to die for pics and the recipes actually are do-able .. all of her books are great but yeah that one gets my vote … also Miss hay seems to have morphed into quite the spunk over the years don’t you think ?
Modern Classics 2 – but where to begin with a favourite recipe?? Blueberry cheesecake, flourless choc cakes, banana cinnamon bread. Yep, I can NOT choose a favourite!I also love that people always think you have gone to a lot more trouble than you really have!
I want to cook and eat todays Rhubarb Meringue cake, but I need to lose weight. If I had those Donna Hay books I could just look at beautiful pictures of food instead of eating it.
No time to cook is my only, but favourite book and I’d be eager to add more to my collection! I love the section on cooking some for now and some for later. Great to stick in the freezer and have a quick meal only needing a microwave!
Fast, Fresh, Simple is Donna Hay’s best cookbook by far;
Sharing all those fabulous ideas and recipes, what a star;
For cooks around the world she has raised the bar;
Teaching us simply how to chop and mix and char….
Fast, Fresh, Simple is my favourite cookbook because the recipes are so quick and easy to make and use things that I already have in the pantry and fridge/freezer. The best thing is that this cookbook has taught me even though I may be using simple everyday ingredients, and even though I’m only spending about 30 minutes cooking, the meals I can produce can be beautiful and a feast for the eyes and the belly!
A Cook’s Guide…. cause I need a bit of guidance!!
Chocolate…given to me as a gift and always borrowed by my girls!
No time to cook for sure! It was given to me as a gift by my partner, and is the only DH cookbook I have. Most pages have food splatters from many-a-culinary creations!
I love the section where all meals can be made in one dish, as no time to cook definitley equates to no time to wash up as well!
No time to cook, I love being able to have fantastic meals that dont take a lot of time, I dont like being tied to the kitchen but I still want my family to eat well.
I am the proud ownner of every single issue of Donna Hay magazine ever published and love each and every one! I have just pulled out all the “Autumn” issues which provide great inspiration for what to cook up around what produce is in season and the colder weather. I just adore Con Poulos’ photography.
I also have most of Donna’s cookbooks – my favourite would have to be Seasons.
i love fast fresh simple. great and so tasty for weeknight dinners
Instant Cook – most definitely
I have Fast Fresh and Simple at home, it’s actually one of my favourite cookbooks in my fast growing collection.
I think I enjoying flicking through the pages and salivating over the photographs more than the cooking! I call it my mental meal!
Fast, Fresh & Simple! It renewed my love of cooking!
Classics 2 is my favourite because with 2 small kids we love all the classic treats like lamingtons and biscuits. Yum!
Off the shelf.. and the classics 1 & 2. I cant pick between the two (three?!), i used them both so often and love them!
Definitely no tIme To Cook, as I have no time to cook!
i have found this cook book to be a lifesaver (can impress people with my non-existent cooking skills too).
Would love the other books so maybe, just maybe one day i will be able to learn how to cook properly!
Fast, fresh, simple is an already dog-eared and well loved addition to the cookbook collection – with a young baby, fast, fresh and simple recipes ensure we all still get fed!!
Classics 1. It’s a book I return to again and again!
Chocolate… as I love making chocolate desserts for my family and friends
No time to cook, my partner and I work very long hours and love good healthy yummy food, 8 weeks of the year we have his 3 young children live with us who like to help in the kitchen and we don’t have to change our cooking style.
My favourite Donna Hay recipe book is Simple Essentials Chocolate. All the recipes I’ve tried from it have been divine!
“Seasons” would have to be my favourite Donna Hay recipe book as my daughter gave it to me and we love to choose and cook recipes from it together!
Mine would have to be Modern Classics 2 – not for the brilliant recipes, but for the countless baking disasters that eventuated! It was the first cookbook that I purchased with my own money as a teen baking enthusiast – lots of enthusiasm but without the talent it seemed! I learned the hard way that baking is all about precision and timing. I still remember the time I threw out a horribly bitter orange cake (used the rinds and all) at 2am before any of my family members could discover the offending item! Sigh..
My favourite Donna Hay cook book has to be Classics 1 & 2. The recipes are so simple and tasty. But I would love to try ‘No time to cook’ because I have no time to cook
Instant entertaining receipes are a winner each time they are tried out! I love the kids issues as well…
Instant Entertaining – I need to win this to complete my collection of Donna’s cookbooks & magazines I’ve got them all!!!
I adore Flavours as you can make a fab meal from a couple of basics – lemon or onion or even chocolate! I also love her magazines and have been subscribing since she started. I always pick 5 dishes from each mag that I cook….although I rarely stop at 5!!!
My favourite is No Time to Cook. The food is fresh and quick to make when you have no time but still looks amazing! The pictures are drool worthy!
Mother Darling just gave me a copy of “Seasons” as an anitdote to my hubby’s all too successful efforts at starting a vegie garden last Spring. He tilled, composted and fertilized his way to a bumper crop of goodies and we have been drowning in a succession of tomatoes, beans, corn, pumpkins, eggplants and capsicums for months. Whilst it sounds like foodie heaven it’s not as my hubs can’t cook to save his life and I ran out of new recipe ideas long ago. Unfortuntely most of the produce has been given away to anyone and everyone or more shamefully ended up as chook feed. Mother Darling’s last visit shone disaproval on our wasteful ways – hence the cook book gift and thankfully it has reinvigorated our kitchen!
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ as it’s what I need after a day at work.
‘Off the shelf-cooking from the pantry’ has got to be my fav as many a times i find myself going thru the cookbook and coming up with winners from things in my pantry
I love them all but sadly being an unemployed student cook I can’t afford to buy any of her books. I love to read them at the bookstores and dream of the day I might own some.
Seasons is my favourite – I got it for my 21st. It has some lovely recipes which I have cooked a lot, but it also makes a great coffee table book because of the beautiful pictures… but A Cook’s Guide sounds pretty good, especially the chocolate & raspberry pavlova recipe!
I love Donna Hay’s ‘Instant Entertaining’ for it’s quick, simple offerings that are tasty. The ‘Spiced Prawns’ are a delicious yet fast dish that has become a weekly staple as an entree in our house. Any cook book that brings a regular dish into your reportoire is well worth having. Just adore Donna’s speedy suggestions for modern yet satisfying dining. I am sure her other cookbooks are equally fulfilling.
I love the Donna Hay Christmas cookbook…. my two favourite things, food and christmas
Last minute.. friends are popping in for dinner
AlI I want is the perfect dish that will be a winner!
I used to have to battle through pages on the internet
wasting precious time- struggling to get the table set,
Having found Donna’s Instand entertaining’ has changed all this to date
No longer am I stressed as every recipe in this books, somehow turns out great!
Seasons is my fave, the recipes are beautiful and suit cooks of all levels and the photography and paper stock is lovely.
I haven’t purchased any of her books yet, but I’m always anxious to see her recipes every week in the Sunday Magazine in the Sunday Telegraph.
I think Donna Hay is fantastic! I often buy her magazine & always read her recipes in the Sunday Magazine, however I’m quite embarrased to say I don’t actually own any of her cookbooks! Although I do have some of the cookbooks she did when she was food editor at Marie Claire – my favorite being ‘Dining’ as it is great for menu planning special dinner parties!
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ – as the days get shorter we feel we have less time.
In an endlessly expanding cupboard of cookbooks, I’m very partial to Donna’s ‘Modern Classics 2′ for baking recipes as well as some inspiration to kick-start experimenting (although I can’t resist the magazine as an indulgence too, preferably with a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive to keep it company!). The cook’s guide would be ever so helpful to bring a bit more method to the kitchen madness – lovely giveaway, Lorraine!
Seasons – love love love
Ooh, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to enter this but have it sent to family in Australia (to forward on to me in England), but i’ll comment anyway because a) it’s always so generous of you running these competitions for your readers and b) I really love her Simple Essential books (especially the red cloth-bound ‘Fruit’ book – it contains a recipe for the yummiest banana bread I’ve ever made). Her books are a bit tricky to find here, but I’m trying to track down her reasonably new book on seasonal food, which looks just gorgeous.
Briony xx
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ as I love good food and quickly is even better after work and around childrens’ commitments.
For christmas I recieved Donna’s Instant Entertaining and I just love it for the styling ideas to make my dinner parties extra special. I can’t wait to check out her new book. The added variations for each recipe is a great idea.
Being fabulous since 1979
Penelope x
Ok, I don’t have spare money to buy cookbooks new, but I did find her Modern Classics 2 at my local market and I am addicted to it. I adore baking and that book is so well used, I had to cover it to keep it together. To win that pack would be a dream for me ( and my husband)
I don’t own a Donna Hay cookbook
Though I’d love to because the photographs are always so lovely! And the photos are one of the best parts of a cookbook…if it doesn’t have good photos I probably won’t buy it!
My favorite Donna Hay book is “Fast Fresh Simple” The recipes create great meals with maximum effect for minimum effort.
fast fresh and simple is my favorite
And luckily, I get my fix of Donna Hay from my local Borders, but I probably have to hunt for another place to get her mags now :/
Instant Entertainment i.e. Is Easy cooking!
I love all her cookbooks! I can’t pick just one, every time I look through one of them I want to make everything!
Seasons – I first made the honey jumble cakes for my best friend when her daughter was born. Now we make them whenever we have an excuse.
My favourite is Modern Classics 2. I drooled over it for months and my grandparents gave it to me for my 12th birthday. It was my first real cook book and i still use it today 7 years later. It has a no fail shortcrust pastry recipe and a recipe for AMAZING flourless chocolate cakes! Instant entertaining is next on my list
it looks pretty amazing ^^
I do not own one of her cook books but my eldest daughter loves her recipes. Perhaps I should invest in one.
No Time To Cook!!
My lovely daughter gave me this for obvious reasons after moving back to Aust!
Panicky about what to cook later this year for her future Scottish in-laws – I now have the perfect answer!!
Donna Hay’s beautiful pavlova! THANK YOU!
‘Instant Entertaining’ is my lifesaver. My husband has to entertain clients and sometimes I am given but a moments notice to magically make a gourmet meal appear! I should, of course, also be stress free and looking great when they arrive – hard to achieve before I came across this lifesaving & timesaving secret of mine.
Instant entertaining! I use it alllll the time!
Seasons, because it is the only one I own so far! I’d love to be able to read through more and decide on a true favourite
I think I use the ‘Modern Classics’ books the most – just because it’s such a good reference for the basics if you want a quick refresh on something bog standard they are brilliant. But for drooling over the gorgeous images I love ‘Seasons’ – yes, I have all the recipes in the big stack of magazines on the shelf but it just makes me want to wear a floaty white dress and have a picnic of impractically gorgeous food whilst laughing with impractically gorgeous people in a meadow
lovely.
Simple Essentials – Chicken
My 16 year old decided to be a non red meat eater….So for the past 5 years , I am constantly challenged to create marvelous Chickkkky meals. And this is PURE help at its best.
Thanks Donnna – your a life saver
The only one I have is Fast, Fresh, Simple. But I tell you what, she makes me appear to be a better cook than what I actually am, and my partner is eternally grateful for Donna Hay!
Fast fresh and simple -it says it all in the title!
No Time to Cook – this is the best
No Time to Cook….that’s me to a tee. All her books are magic, but this is my favourite, well thumbed and dirty pages are a testament to how much it’s used. Thank you Donna for your amazing talent and passing your knowledge onto us, your grateful followers
Instant Entertaining. The variety and tastes are so entrancing they start my belly dancing!
“Fast,Fresh,Simple” as this is the way I strive to cook!
I like them all but I’d especially like the cooks guide. As I’ve always worked the night shift in hospitality I missed out on learning to cook. As I now have a young son I’m he’d like me to learn.
Seasons is my favourite – I got it for my 21st. I love the recipes but it is also great coffee table book because of the beautiful pictures… but A Cook’s Guide sounds great as well, and I would especially love to try the chocolate & raspberry pavlova recipe!
“Off the Shelf” is my favourite and most used because when I am having a horror of a day I can still be a super woman and whip up something, not only fast, but scrumptious.
I love “Instant Entertaining”
no time to cook, for someone with little confidence like me
I have a couple of Donna’s cookbooks, but I would have to say Instant Entertaining is my fav.
Love Fast, Fresh, Simple. Working full time, I don’t have time to slave away in the kitchen after work to feed my family. The easier the meal, the more time I have to spend with the kids.
My fave’s are the classics vol 1 & 2…oh and all the rest!
“Fast, Fresh and Simple” – the name says it all (and my cat really likes the cover.)
Fast, Fresh and Simple
Donna Hay’s cookbooks are a droolfest each time
Seasons is my favourite as it ensures that I am using the freshest seasonal produce. The great thing about the Seasons cookbook is that it, like Donna Hay, is never out of season in this household.
Seasons. Love cooking with fresh, seasonal produce (especially out of my own garden) so this book is perfect.
Classics 1,
Thanks
No Time to Cook – This book describes my daily challenge, but with beautiful photography!
Donna Hay Seasons – I bought it as a Mothers Day present for my yummy mummy!
Finally I have a chance to use other DH books I have purchased but it would be great to have the newer version
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ as it most matches my cooking style.
No Time Too Cook….
I was given a Donna Hay book – Beef, Lamb & Pork – for my 20th birthday this year. I’ve always cooked roasts in the past but never before have they tasted as good as when I followed Donna’s directions!
Simple essentials – Christmas. Every year I start to panic at the thought of cooking for the whole family (especially my elderly Mum, she never judges, but praise from her is wonderful!). Then I open up Donna Hay’s Christmas Cookbook, and I remember, I CAN do this!
modern classics I – the spaghetti carbonara recipe is the first thing i made from a cookbook and i have loved cooking ever since!
fast, fresh and simple!! xo love all the recipes, just got a few more to cook…. the rule in our house is I have cook at least a quarter/half the recipes before I can buy more Donna Hay recipe books… Tapas always gets me through a few rather quickly
ha
Which is the favourite? That’s like asking a mother which is her favourite child! No mother will ever admit that she has a favourite and nor will I ever admit to a favourite cookbook. Some might be used more than others but you never know what inspiration or need, will hit when or where and that’s when all the cookbooks have a chance to become the favourite of the moment
My favourite book is Fast, Fresh and Simple, i just love cooking fresh looking food, i have two small kids so i would love to get my hands on No time to cook.
My favourite is Modern Classics Book 2, it’s full of all the kitchen basics like scones, cakes etc, and the recipes always work and taste divine! I always use it as a reference if I’m looking for a baking recipe, to see how Donna does it.
Classics 2! Second entry as I adore Donna sooo much & I would just love to have a copy of her wonderful new book!
My favourite Donna Hay cookbook is her new seasons book, because its so yummy and simple to use.
“Fast,Fresh,Simple” as the recipes are perfect for those hectic after work times when meals need to be prepared in a hurry but also need to be nutritious!
Modern Classics (Book 1) is my favourite Donna Hay book
Fast Fresh Simple
Inspiring and easy
For meals that are delicious and nutritious
fast, fresh , simple says it all for me because her meals make it to my table so the kids can eat fresh, simple for me and fast to the table
I would love to have all of them, to pick one A cook’s guide.
Modern Classics Book 2 – every single sweet thing imaginable in there! (Well, almost
) Whenever I need a basic but trustworthy and tasty recipe I go straight to MC2 knowing a recipe will be in there.
What can I say food is my life and Donna Hay is my Bible.
Donna’s recipes are always so easy to follow and nutritious to boot.
Fast, fresh, simple! is the best its so handy to have when unexpected guests arrive, you can have style without the fuss! They love it!
Wow, what a prize. I love Donna’s ‘Seasons’ book.
Fast, Fresh & Simple.
Perfect for myself, a nurse and shift worker who appreciates and loves to cook delicious food- but doesn’t always have time for the more laborious meals.
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ – all good for you, easy and quick – my type of recipes.
It is essential that I order some of her books
Deffinately “Fast Fresh Simple” I have cooked so much from this and get raving reviews everytime
Donna Hay’s “a cook’s guide” It’s a step-by-step guide in the kitchen to create much-loved meals. Easy to follow recipes, and her fuss-free meal ideas and time-saving shortcuts, now it’s even easier to achieve the best-possible results with meal ideas.
Oh to have to choose just one, impossible, I love them all!
Instant Entertaining is my favourite. I have a big family who are constantly popping around and needing to be fed.
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ is best, the speed and simplicity beats the rest.
Fast, Fresh, Simple – every time I go to the bookstore, I browse this book! One day I might be able to afford to buy it – there are so many recipes which fit our healthy eating habits.
No time to cook – I have two toddlers and I find cooking relaxing and I love Donna’s cookbooks as she is a mum of two boys and she produces fantastic books with real recipes for real cooks – love her!!!
Fast, Fresh, Simple is my kind of cooking! That’s my favourite one.
Simply ‘Entertaining’ A great book for every night of the week.simple food.
love donna hays books as the recipes are so easy to follow and the results taste great. Favourite book is no time to cook.
I always love see what she has done every Sunday Mag in the paper always indeed to cook my be one day i will
No time to cook my all time favourite a great present from the kids with great time saving recipes
Instant Entertaining – mmm amazing recipes that actually work!
No time to cook. AMAZING!!!!!
I have quite a few of them now, but still can’t go past the first one I received – Simple Essentials: Chocolate
some of my family and friends’ favourite recipes of mine are from this book!
“no time to cook”,thats Me with four children and working fulltime -I would love to won this book………
Don’t own any of her books, just get recipes from web, but here’s my chance.
Donna Hay this would make my day.
My favorite book is Simple Essentials – Chocolate. I love every recipe in this book!
Thanks for the chance to enter a great competition!
I have an incredibly sweet tooth and just love ‘Simple Essentials – Chocolate’.
mine is an old and very used marie claire cookbook called ‘cooking’ that donna wrote before she was went solo.
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ – my only comment is yum.
Instant Entertaining would have to be my favourite- hands down. Love Donna Hay!
I would have to say that I love Simple Essentials: Chocolate. It’s well, simple, and the pictures make me hungry!
I love Flavors!
I love her ‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ recipes that have featured in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. Perfect for our modern lives!
“Cool Kids Cook” which is great for my kids to teach them the basics and me too
Classics 1 is my fave because it was one of the first cookbooks that I couldn’t get enough of. The recipes, the photography, encouraged me to cook more. It is now one of my most favourite things to do and now my 14 year is getting in on the act! You never know when something so simple, like picking up a cookbook can change your outlook on something!
Fast Fresh Simple!
Off the Shelf – when my boyfriend (now husband) and I moved in together, he did all the washing, ironing and cleaning. When he told me I had to contribute to the running of the household somehow, my mum bought me Off the Shelf. I learnt to cook from that book and now love cooking! It may have contributed to our happy marriage!
No Time To Cook – it makes everything so much easier.
I dont have a donna hay cookbook as yet but i have been watching her show on arena and may i just say she is amazing everything is sooo easy and tasty!
No Time to Cook – the quicker im out of the kitchen the better!
Fast, Fresh & Simple…. Totally suits my busy lifestyle. But all of her books are incrediable, such pretty books to have as coffee table books.
Donna’s Classics 2 – the go to bible for sweets. Love it!
I favourite Donna Hay cookbook is Fast, Fresh, Simple. I think the title alone encompasses what food should be about, and especially living in Australia where we have the freshest, most amazing variety. Cooking should not be a chore, it should be simple, fast and most of all have fresh food which tastes amazing!
Instant entertaining – I’m always looking for new ways to impress my friends and family and as I’m soooooo not a gourmet cook I need all the help I can get!!
Christmas – for my favourite time of the year it gives me options depending on what time I have. The planning guide is wonderful and its great to be able to put in my own tips to remember for next Christmas.
No Time To Cook sounds like the perfect book to me, especially as a busy Mother!
It would be a dream come true for the woman who continually prevents my entertaining disasters to sign my very own cookbook! Donna’s ‘Instant Entertaining’ is my Bible to success. My guests are always impressed and I can enjoy the good food and good company stress free. Where would I be without it?
Instant Cook – so quick and easy even I can do it! Donna Hay is my heroine!
“No time to cook”. Cuz I really don’t have time to cook and that book is a life saver!
‘Cakes Biscuits Slices & Muffins’ because I love cooking and eating all of these (preferably at once)
I just absolutely love Donna Hay’s recipes, especially desserts!! Which is why I would pick “Simple Essentials: Chocolate” to be my favourite Donna Hay cookbook.
Seasons is my favourite book
Never looked at Donna Hay books until recently, love her Fast, Fresh, Simple recipe book – why? because it’s fast, fresh and simple cooking, can’t do better than that!
Fast, fresh, simple is my favourite because I’m often lazy after work so fast is good and I like to retain the natural flavours of fresh ingredients.
the instant cook, i just love the easy variety of recipes
A Cooks Guide, because it brings together the best of the best!
Fast, Fresh, Simple because that’s the way cooking should be! Often we over-complicate things, but I find sticking to fresh ingredients and not trying to add a million different things, works the best.
Instant Entertaining because I don’t have to think or try to hard to look like an expert Chef. Anything that can create that impression is indeed an absolute treasure.
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ as my life is speedy, but complicated and in a rut – what a refreshing change this cookbook is.
Instant entertaining has been my perfect companion for many dinner parties. There’s always much gratitude from guests when I serve a Donna recipe
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ as that’s how I like my food.
My favourite Donna Hay book is a Instant Entertaining. We have just renovated our home and cant not wait to start entertaining friends in our new surrounds with Donna’s easy light fresh and fast cuisine.
Modern classics is the best,
simple,tasty,beats the rest!
‘No Time to Cook’ – for obvious reasons!! It’s such a great cookbook for quick & delicious recipes…I love all the wonderful pictures in ALL her books!
Fast, Fresh and Simple is my favourite because I am a fast, fresh and simple girl! lol
Fast Fresh and Simple…thats me to a Tee!
Fast, Fresh, Simple gives us just that-a true printed godsend indeed
Instant Entertaining is brillant. Maybe it should be called getting me out of the fire book. I have used so many recipes from it and it never fails to impress, even the most critical guest – Mother in Law
Off the shelf – is handy when you need to whip something up in a hurry, as it uses everyday pantry items. Thanks!
‘Fast, Fresh & Simple’ is my pick,
for ease of use and tasty recipes it gets my tick.
sweetlife
Fast fresh and simple
how all cooking should be
especially for me
That’s simple; ‘Fast, fresh, simple!’
Oooo count me in please! I love your blog too! Thanks for this competition! XO
I have just purchase Fast Fresh Simple. With my hectic life I have to have receipes that a quick and simple using fresh ingredients.
I can’t afford to buy her cookbooks as 2.5 kids under 4 are a strain to my funticket budget. BUT I do dabble with the cookbook liftout in the Sunday Magazine- last Sunday, I made TO DIE FOR rice pudding with really basic ingredients! Thanks Donna Hay xo and thanks sooo much Lorraine for letting me dream xoxoxoxo
I love Fast, Fresh and Simple. That is how cooking should be, especially when working and raising a family.
‘Fast, Fresh, Simple’ – helps with fast easy family meals and with 5 kids its a true blessing!
Donna Hay – The Instand Cook. Simple Essentials Chocolate is a close second!
Fast Fresh and simple
not much more to say
thats all we have time for
in our hectic chaotic day
fast, fresh, simple! A book my family needs.
The kids love CLASSICS 2
As mum’s in the kitchen cooking treats ‘taboo’. Snacks for school and treats for night makes Donna Hay’s cooking books worth the fight!
Fast, Fresh, Simple because I never have time on my side when it comes to cooking in the kitchen…
No time to cook is a god send in our house.
Modern Classics 2. A must for any home cook [especially one with a sweet tooth].
No Time To Cook would be my favourite cooking book as I never can find time these days. Can’t wait to read it and get some great recipes and ideas.
My favourite book is Off The Shelf.. it is so handy and I always cook from it!
Donna Hay has become my favourite cook – and getting to know her through her TV show and Masterchef appearances has been great. I bought her cookbook for my Mum for mother’s day – but I don’t have it. Would love to though!!!
I love all Donna’s books but I keep coming back to Classics 1.
A Cook’s Guide – I don’t have it, but would love to own it.
I haven’t got a Donna Hay cook book but I subscribe to the Magazine and I must admit I have taken to hiding it under the cushions when my 80year old mum visits as I often “accidently” relocates, so I guess my favourite Donnna Hay cook book will be also my mum’s!!
Off the Shelf because it has such great recipes!
Fast, Fresh and Simple is my favourite but they are all sensational. Donna’s books take me from chef ordinaire to chef extraordinaire with very little effort
Modern Classics because that is the kind of food we like as a family.
Fast, Fresh and Simple. I love Donna Hay’s books because she keeps it simple for stupid people like me
Instant Entertaining
simple essentials – chocolate
there are so many that I just can’t choose one
Definitely no time to cook. It has even inspired my husband to cook more and with me which is great. He has been looking for a cookbook to cook his way through and announced the other day that Donna’s book might be it…if he had all of her books, imagine how much more cookihg he could do!
Instant Entertaining is the best,
However, I’m yet to try the rest!!
To have my own signed copies would be great..
I borrowed my brothers and returned them late..
Donna Hay is my absolute saviour..
When it comes to cooking with FLAVOUR!
instant entertaining as the title says it all and it is a real lifesaver when you are in a hurry and have to feed people when you don’t expect company
I adore them all but my favorite is Seasons.
No time to cook… makes for more time socializing with friends, yet the cooking is so quick and easy
‘No Time To Cook’, because I work long hours and I like Donna’s quick and easy recipes.
‘Off the Shelf : Cooking from the Pantry’ is my favourite, I just love this book.
instant entertaining! (: it’s nice to know that we can entertain guests within a short span of time (:
I love ‘No Time to Cook’
Because quite simply
I had ‘No time to Cook’
At least until I found this book!
Simple Essentials: Chocolate
coz you can never have enough comfort food to ease the blues.
I have `Flavours’ apparently her fourth book. Had it since 2000! Love it. I have a couple of issues of her magazine. I recently made her Roasted Pumpkin and Garlic Soup. So simple, so awesome. I would love to win `A cook’s guide.’
I love Donna’s, Fast , Fresh and zzzzsimple because it has saved me hours of preparation and cooking time, so now I have time for a pre-dinner drink
No Time To Cook. As a food-loving mama of 2 small people, this book delivers exactly what I’ve been looking for – big flavours in little time.
Donna always has great recipes, fab pictures, delicious results
“Instant Entertaining” – sometimes the thought of entertaining can be daunting. However I find that Donna’s collection of simple yet special menus, accompanied by beautiful photographs, are inspiring and take the guess work and stress out of planning a stylish, delicious and memorable meal – whatever the occasion.
FAST – when unexpected guests arrive!
FRESH: but not with a pulse!
SIMPLE: so even DH can cook them!
A Cook’s guide is my fave.
fast fresh and simple its my bible that i use everyday, it has inspired me to cook more and create fantastic dishes in no time at all thank you Donna
All of them ..please dont make me choose….
Love Donna Hays cookbook her food is presented with such skill and layout.
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