“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.