Simple Essentials Fruit - Hardcover

Hay, Donna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061569046 ISBN 13: 9780061569043

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2008

Synopsis

Featuring 60 simply beautiful recipes for all our favourites, this is the only fruit cookbook you'll ever need.

About this title

About the Author

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 beautifully put together and photographed. It 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 20 cookbooks, publisher of donna hay magazine, newspaper columnist, and creator of a homewares and food range.

Visit Donna online at donnahay.com.au
"Like" Donna on Facebook: donna hay
Follow Donna on Twitter: @donnahay tweets

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Simple Essentials Fruit

By Donna Hay

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 2008 Donna Hay
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780061569043

bircher muesli

Serves 4

Ingredients:

1½ cups (150g/5¼ oz) rolled oats
1 cup (250ml/8 fl oz) apple juice, warmed
2 green apples, grated
1 cup (250g/8 oz) thick natural yoghurt
½ cup slivered almonds
honey, to serve

Instructions:

Place the oats and apple juice in a large bowl, cover with plastic wrap and allow to stand for 30 minutes or until the oats are softened. Stir in the grated apple. To serve, divide the yoghurt between 4 serving glasses, top with the oat mixture, almonds and honey.

rhubarb and vanilla preserve

Ingredients:

250g (8 oz) rhubarb, trimmed and chopped
1 cup (220g/7¾ oz) sugar
1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped (or 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste)
2 tablespoons water

Instructions:

Place the rhubarb, sugar, vanilla bean and seeds and water in a saucepan over low heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Increase the heat to medium and simmer for 8-10 minutes or until thickened. Remove the vanilla bean and discard. Spoon the jam into a hot, sterilised (see glossary) glass jar and seal. Makes approximately 1 cup. Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Continues...

Excerpted from Simple Essentials Fruitby Donna Hay Copyright © 2008 by Donna Hay. Excerpted by permission.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061569046
• ISBN 13: 9780061569043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96