Donna Hay

Everyone should have a favourite cookbook. Mine are almost entirely from the 1980s (not forgetting the Women’s Weekly birthday cake book), and obviously a reminder of my parents’ flair for entertaining when I was growing up.

Dripping with irony. Photo: Natty Cook www.nattycook.com

Epicurean, Vogue Entertaining and the Women’s Weekly dinner party series inspired many nights of cheese soufflé, poached chicken with white sauce and hand-rolled chocolate truffles. All washed down with endless glasses of chardonnay in the 1980s.

But cookbooks from the 1970s have an appeal all of their own.

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  • Misspussinboots says:

    03:53pm | 24/10/11

    Tournedos Rossini…a thick-cut fillet steak, encircled by bacon, topped with pate, smothered with a mushroom, brandy & cream sauce, served on a round of fried bread. For when 2 kinds of meat simply isn’t enough. 2-tooth hogget. Boiled ox tounge. Fritz and sauce sangers. Anything “au gratin”. Roo tail soup.… Read more »

  • DaveH says:

    12:57pm | 06/05/11

    I make coronation chicken for xmas, and add coriander and mango as optional. The trick is to us good quality ingredients, and its actually not bad.(with lots of cream and mayonnaise). hey its xmas, so you dont have to go all low calorie. My mum used to make it in… Read more »

 

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