SHORT & SWEET

Chocolate hot cross buns: delicious or a crime against Easter?

It’s all about chocolate so I can see how the two have collided. But I’m a traditional girl myself.

Is cooking at home a pleasure for you or a busman’s holiday?

If I have more than it’s a pleasure.

Do friends ever cook for you, or are they too intimated?

Some do. Others play to their strengths and mix me a drink instead!

Ever had a proper kitchen disaster?

I once put too many corn in their husks on the barbecue without soaking entire barbecue the neighbours called the

Lunch-box ideas are one of your do-bests, but do you ever fall back on the Bakers Delight cheesymite scroll?

don’t make me tell you about my entrepreneurial son who takes baked goods from the freezer to sell at school.

What could you do with a can of spam?

Use it as a doorstop? Donna Hay’s book Basics To Brilliance (Harpercollins, $55) is out now.