Simple Essentials Salads and Vegetables

One of the world’s best-known names in cooking returns with a gorgeous new series of six cookbooks. Each volume of Simple Essentials features Donna Hay’s signature style of clean, elegant and luscious photography, and focuses on an ingredient or cooking style essential to any kitchen.
    With tips and tricks on buying and serving, and recipes from fast-and-easy to dinner-party perfect, each of the six books is perfect for cooks of every level. Donna’s inventive recipes draw on fresh ingredients in exciting combinations to create taste sensations with maximum flavour and texture. From Simple Essentials: Fruit, try the delectable Crushed Raspberry Tart; and from Salads + Vegetables, prepare the easy and delicious Roast Tomato, Chickpea and White Bean Salad. In Chicken, you’ll learn how to turn an ordinary piece of poultry into something sensational, while Chocolate will show you not only how to create a full range of decadent treats but how to choose the right chocolate and cocoa as well.

At the age of eight, DONNA HAY skipped into a kitchen, picked up a mixing bowl and never looked back. She moved to the world of magazine test kitchens and publishing, where she established her trademark style of simple, smart and seasonal recipes all elegantly put together and photographed. Hers is food for every cook, every food lover, every day and every occasion. Her unique style turned her into an international food-publishing phenomenon as a bestselling author of sixteen cookbooks, publisher of Donna Hay Magazine, newspaper columnist and creator of a homewares and food range. Visit her online at www.donnayhay.com.au.