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Hay Hay its Donna Day

Tis the Season to be jolly ….. due to all of our holiday obligations, I will be postponing HHDD until early 2010.  Keep checking back or sign up for the Chez Us Daily Dish to be kept in the loop!  Happy holidays to you!

“Donna Hay is one amazing Australian “home economist”. She started out scoring her first job in the Australian Women’s Weekly test kitchen after completing a home economist course. Donna went on to become the food editor at Marie Claire magazine and this was where her fresh take on food styling and simple but stunning recipes really took off. Her styling and fuss free recipes so adored, it wasn’t long before she soon had her own magazine and had published several best selling cookbooks internationally. Some people have referred to her as the Downunder answer to Martha Stewart, however, Donna doesn’t like to be thought of as a celebrity chef, but just one of the girls who always has time for food and fun in the kitchen.” written by Bron Marshall.

We fell in love with Donna Hay a few years ago after spying her book, Modern Classics.  I love the simplicity of her recipes, so fresh and so simple.  When I started blogging a couple years ago, I stumbled about a lovely site, Winos and Foodies , I was delighted to learn that Barbara had a Hay Hay its Donna Day (HHDD) food blogging event.  I participated whenever I could.   Life becomes busy and we reach obstacles that unfortunately prevent us from doing the things we enjoy at times and in 2008, Barbara passed this event over to the talented Bron.  Now, I am pleased to say, this baton has been passed down to Chez Us.  We hope and strive  to do an outstanding job just as Barbara and Bron did, by keeping it “Special Made Simple”.  Please read more about the previous event here.

If this sounds like an event you would love to enter please become familiar with the following rules.

Rules of Entry…

  1. Hay Hay it’s Donna Day is open to all food and wine bloggers.
  2. Entries submitted for HHDD must be made specifically for the current round of this event, although photos may be submitted to photo competitions such as “Does My Blog Look Good In This.”
  3. The host will select, make and post an original Donna Hay recipe without any changes. Participants may make that exact same recipe as is, or put their own spin on the recipe by altering the ingredients whilst remaining with the theme.
  4. Entrants must include a link to the host and the facilitator (that’s us – www.chezus.com) in their entry post.
  5. Entries can be made at any time once the event has been announced, but must be posted and emailed to the host by the closing date, which is the last day of every month.
  6. The host then assembles all the entries together into a roundup (posted before the 5th of the month), from where the participants of the round vote to elect a new host for the following event (voting must be done before the 10th of the month).
  7. I am going to try to keep this event going on a monthly bases, with an announcement of the new theme on the 15th of the month.
  8. With your entry please include the following:
  • The Name & URL of your blog
  • Your Name
  • Your Location
  • Name of your recipe
  • The URL or the permalink to your entry.
  • A photo of your recipe if you have. You do not have to re-size it, but it should be less than 1MB.

Logo: Want to add the HHDD logo onto your site, just copy this code into your entries:   <a href="http://bronmarshall.com/?page_id=1011"> <img src="http://bronmarshall.com/hhdd_logo-copy.jpg" alt="Hay Hay its Donna Day"</a>

Twitter: Follow HHDD on Twitter to keep up to date with all the latest.

HHDD Food Porn:  You can also find HHDD over at Flickr. 

Previous Events

#1 Self frosting Cupcakes – Barbara of Winosandfoodies
#2 Coconut Macaroons – Glutton Rabbit
#3 Chequerboard Snap Cookies – Clare @ Eat Stuff
#4 Bruschetta – Bron Marshall
#5 Savoury Tarts – Tami @ Running with Tweezers
#6 Corn Fritters – Jen @ Milk and Cookies
#7 – Doh! – seems we had an itch and skipped a beat!
#8 Risotto – Cenzina @ cavolettodibruxelles
#9 Soufflé – Tami @ Running with Tweezers
#10 Cheesecake – Peabody @ Culinaryconcoctions
#11 White Chocolate Mousse – Helen our Tartelette
#12 Caesar Salad – Katie @ Other Peoples Food
#13 Sorbet – Laura @ Eat, Drink, Live
#14 Gnocchi – Lynn @ Cafe LynnyLu
#15 Tarts – Sarina @ TriniGourmet
#16 Terrines – Tami @ Running with Tweezers
#17 Pizza – Joey @ 80 Breakfasts
#18 Chocolate Coconut Tarts – Bordeaux @ Marita Says
#19 Clafoutis – Bron Marshall
#20 Choux – Suzana @ Home Gourmets
#21 Tiramisu – Alexandra @ Addicted Sweet Tooth
#22 Pancakes – Suzana @ Home Gourmets
#23 Flavoured Yoghurt – Bordeaux of Marita Says
#24 Pesto – Joey @ 80 Breakfasts
#25  Satay – Meeta @ What’s for Lunch Honey? & Sugar Grilled Fruits – Tartasacher @ Milpostres
#26 Pepper Pasta – Soma @ eCurry,
#27 Summer Salads Lime & Mint Noodle Salad – Priya @ Akshayapaatram

#28 Parmesan & Polenta Chicken – Stephanie @ Dispensing Happiness
#29 Creamy Pancetta & Roasted Garlic Pasta – Jo @ Have Fork Will Travel