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Week Light: Super-Fast Meals to Make You Feel Good
Australia's bestselling cookbook author and most trusted home cook, Donna Hay, returns with a beautiful new cookbook that you'll want to use every night of the week.
There are endless arguments out there for bringing more vegetables to your table - your own wellbeing, your budget, our environment, the list goes on. Whatever your personal reason, there's one that I think is universal - FLAVOUR. Gone are the days where a sad salad or soft steamed carrots were our only options. These recipes use vegetables in a whole new way, adding so much life to your weekly routine. Who knew broccoli (in my mind the superfood of all vegetables) could make such a delicious pizza base, flat-bread or tart shell? Often for lunch, or even a snack, I'll bake my super-green falafels in the oven and my studio team love them. As for my boys? Their current weeknight request is my crunchy raw pad thai - so yum. Inside Week Light, you'll find all these ideas and so much more. It's essentially my week in food, in a book - super-quick, family-friendly, fuss-free meals made REAL. Vegetables are at the forefront of nearly every recipe, with a few meat options thrown in, and there are lots of my all-time classics re-worked to include more goodness. This book is about using food to refuel and re-energise, while nurturing ourselves with flavour. Happy cooking!
There are endless arguments out there for bringing more vegetables to your table - your own wellbeing, your budget, our environment, the list goes on. Whatever your personal reason, there's one that I think is universal - FLAVOUR. Gone are the days where a sad salad or soft steamed carrots were our only options. These recipes use vegetables in a whole new way, adding so much life to your weekly routine. Who knew broccoli (in my mind the superfood of all vegetables) could make such a delicious pizza base, flat-bread or tart shell? Often for lunch, or even a snack, I'll bake my super-green falafels in the oven and my studio team love them. As for my boys? Their current weeknight request is my crunchy raw pad thai - so yum. Inside Week Light, you'll find all these ideas and so much more. It's essentially my week in food, in a book - super-quick, family-friendly, fuss-free meals made REAL. Vegetables are at the forefront of nearly every recipe, with a few meat options thrown in, and there are lots of my all-time classics re-worked to include more goodness. This book is about using food to refuel and re-energise, while nurturing ourselves with flavour. Happy cooking!
256 pages, Paperback
Published March 31, 2020
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Donna Hay
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Donna Hay is an Australian food stylist, author, and magazine editor. Her food, recipes and styling focuses on basic ingredients, simply prepared and beautifully photographed – hallmarks of her work which have set the benchmark for food publishing worldwide and inspired a whole new generation of cooks.
Donna Hay is an Australian food stylist, author, and magazine editor. Her food, recipes and styling focuses on basic ingredients, simply prepared and beautifully photographed – hallmarks of her work which have set the benchmark for food publishing worldwide and inspired a whole new generation of cooks.
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December 22, 2019
A fair few recipes that call for frozen greens and some obscure to me, asian and middle eastern cooking ingredients, but overall, they sound incredibly healthy. The grains, spices and pastes are common to many of the recipes, so I plan to stock up on these over the coming days and start to prepare a few of these meals. If you like meat, there probably aren't enough recipes in here to satisfy you, but if you enjoy your vegetables, you'll find several to tempting pictures to make your mouth water. Contains lots of photos of Hay in her vegie garden and playing on the beach with her kids, I am not sure they add value but they make for a heavy cookbook. The index of names at the back is pretty useful, if like me, some of these ingredients are new to you.
3 stars for now, I may upgrade or downgrade based on how things taste down the track.
3 stars for now, I may upgrade or downgrade based on how things taste down the track.
September 20, 2020
3.5. It’s been a long time since I looked through a Donna Hay cookbook. It made me remember why I had lived them. Simple and easy recipes for the most part. This book had many which I hope to try which is a good sign. There were quite a few which felt repetitive though. The pictures and layout were enticing and helpful. The quinoa schnitzel and the red curry sweet potato soup are on my list.
October 23, 2021
Some really nice recipes that I will perhaps make one day! Lots of good vegetarian meals that appealed to me.
November 2, 2020
The photos were so lovely that I thought for sure I would be serving something awesome to my family but there were several that ended up being a waste of ingredients and time. The end results were chalky and taste-free.
There was an overload of mint in many of the recipes.
There was an overload of mint in many of the recipes.
November 20, 2020
As always this is another beautiful Donna hay book. Her books are always well photographed and this one is not an exception. I was however, disappointed with not finding many recipes I’d actually want to make. Particularly at the beginning of the book. I do not like recipes that try to make comfort foods healthy. I don’t think they work. For example, if I really want pizza the recipe for sweet potato pizzas isn’t going to work it’s a sweet potato base topped with raw kale, lemon zest, chilli, and a bit of goat cheese. Nothing pizza like about it - other than presentation. There are many recipes like this. There are other veg centric recipes that do look ok. I was just annoyed at how many recipes are for things like “super green ricotta rolls” instead of sausage rolls and cauliflower tacos or broccoli or sweet potato pizza bases. There are so many great things to do with vegetables it’s not necessary to just use them to replace meat or bread. If the book wasn’t so pretty I’d give it two stars.
February 28, 2024
I had checked out a couple other cookbooks by Donna Hay so I decided to check this one out too. While I'm all about eating healthy, I just didn't see hardly any recipes I wanted to try. I did like that in the "basics to brilliance" chapter there was a base recipe and then several recipes using that base. If you really enjoy ethnic, vegetarian food I think this is the cookbook for you. But, if you want to eat healthier and still include meat and dairy there wasn't much here for you. I liked her other cookbooks that I checked out but I didn't like this one much.
September 27, 2022
I'm a fan of Donna now. Look forward to discovering more of her recipes.
October 5, 2020
Donna Hay is not only a food editor but also a bestselling cookbook author from Australia. She is famous around the world. With her style of cuisine has she cooked her way into our hearts and in every kitchen.
This book is a new fresh approach to eat more vegetables differently.
Recipes for every day, and suitable for a busy life, everybody knows.
Here vegetables are in the center of the meal, with all the flavor and nutrients.
The size of the book is enormous, but it is not a deterrent. That's Donna's usual style, it accentuates the already well-made photographs. Yes, it is heavier than other cookbooks, but this one contains much more than a conventional cooking book can offer.
Apart from recipes with only vegetables, you will also find meat dishes or fish in abundance. Some may have an Asian touch to it, others are well-known dishes remodeled. I would say there is a recipe for everyone, even for someone who is craving for sweets.
I already own a large collection of her books, but this one is my favorite.
Because I like the freshness of the recipes, the ingredients are not so heavy. They are easily made no need to stand in the kitchen for hours. One of the author's rules.
My favorite dish is tofu bahn mi, vegan bolognese, and simple red curry sweet potato soup.
There is nothing I did not like, it is even suitable for vegetarians and vegans, just substitute the ingredients with a vegan choice. I tried this out for myself and it worked out just fine.
This book is a new fresh approach to eat more vegetables differently.
Recipes for every day, and suitable for a busy life, everybody knows.
Here vegetables are in the center of the meal, with all the flavor and nutrients.
The size of the book is enormous, but it is not a deterrent. That's Donna's usual style, it accentuates the already well-made photographs. Yes, it is heavier than other cookbooks, but this one contains much more than a conventional cooking book can offer.
Apart from recipes with only vegetables, you will also find meat dishes or fish in abundance. Some may have an Asian touch to it, others are well-known dishes remodeled. I would say there is a recipe for everyone, even for someone who is craving for sweets.
I already own a large collection of her books, but this one is my favorite.
Because I like the freshness of the recipes, the ingredients are not so heavy. They are easily made no need to stand in the kitchen for hours. One of the author's rules.
My favorite dish is tofu bahn mi, vegan bolognese, and simple red curry sweet potato soup.
There is nothing I did not like, it is even suitable for vegetarians and vegans, just substitute the ingredients with a vegan choice. I tried this out for myself and it worked out just fine.
November 2, 2020
This is a super healthy cookbook - mostly vegetable based. It's a beautifully laid out with wonderful pictures and even some photos of Donna and her family. It's substantial and chock full of interesting recipes. If you're looking for healthy dishes that are beyond the usual brown rice and carrots, this book is for you.
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