I used to like to play a game with myself. When Mr NQN's family used to pop by, I used to invite them to stay for dinner. I loved the challenge of being able to conjure up something, for vegetarians, vegans and omnivores out of what I had in my cupboard or fridge. I would get excited at the idea of trying to make something out of what I had without having actually gone for a proper shop.
Donna Hay's new book Simple Dinners is one of those books that I would have no doubt flicked through during one of these challenges. They're all about easy dinners without a battalion of ingredients ideal for weeknights, quickly cooked and assembled but without sacrificing flavour. There are 13 sections broken down into eggs, bread, pasta, noodles & rice, couscous, beans & lentils, chicken, beef, lamb, pork as well as many others ending with that all important chocolate chapter. Recipes include spicy chickpea and chorizo fried eggs; crunchy top beef pies; prosciutto, sage and ricotta French toast; cheat's ravioli lasagne, chicken pan pie;n oven puff cake with blueberries and cheat's chocolate and salted caramel tart. Plus these 140 recipes are all new recipes and have not been previously printed in the magazine.
Thanks to Harper Collins, four lucky Not Quite Nigella readers will win a copy of Donna Hay's Simple Dinners valued at $39.99 each! Plus one lucky reader our of the four will get a boxed pair of Donna Hay Modern Classic mugs from her new range with Royal Doulton (assigned at random). For a chance to win all you have to do is tell me what your best simple dinner recipe is! Simply add your answer as a comment to the story. The competition ends at midnight AEST on the 14th of January, 2012. You can enter this competition once daily and it is open to anyone within Australia.
***The winners are:
Karen M. of NSW
Rebecca C. of Vic
Fiona C. of NSW
Dimity C. of NSW***
Best of luck!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
xxx
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