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11 beautiful budget-friendly pasta recipes

Pasta is a brilliant base staple that enables you to use up many ingredients you may have to hand; whether that’s frozen veg or a floppy broccoli loose in your veg drawer, a stray tin of tuna, or half a pack of beef mince that needs using up. So, whether it’s a

Ways to use up leftover pesto

A jar of ready-made pesto is such a useful ingredient, but how often have you found a half-empty jar that’s gone mouldy at the back of the fridge?

Five ways with pappardelle

12 super summer pasta recipes

10 ways to use up ripe tomatoes

So, we've chosen the best ways to use up a glut of ripe tomatoes – whether you’ve bought a load on offer from the local market, or your garden has gone into overdrive – so you can make the most of this brilliant seasonal produce while it’s at its very best. Here are our top ten easy tomato recipes to whip up next time you have a few too many to hand.

Dinner, sorted: Jamie’s fresh gnocchi, pasta, & sauce range

Jamie’s fresh potato gnocchi comes in two delicious flavours – tomato and spinach. Made in Italy using quality ingredients, the beauty of these dumplings is that they can be prepared in three ways – boil, bake or pan-fry – so you can enjoy them whichever way you choose.

7 perfect pasta bakes

8 quick & easy gnocchi recipes

When it comes to proper Italian comfort food, a plate of pillowy gnocchi is hard to beat. Using humble ingredients, these beautiful gnocchi recipes are quick to cook, hearty and versatile, paired with deliciously rich, creamy sauces, tomato-based ragu or a simple herb butter.

How to make eggless gnocchi in 7 easy steps

When Jamie was in Rome, Nonna Teresa showed him how to make gnocchi without using eggs and it’s a total game-changer. Follow our handy step-by-step guide and lift the spirits with some delicious food.

The principle of risotto

Master the

Personalise your Cheat’s deep-pan pizza

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Easy pasta recipes

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14 scrumptious store cupboard meals

It’s time to dust off your tins, dig out those packets, and get inspired with our ideas to get the best out of your store-cupboard staples.

How to cook pasta in 6 easy steps

This guide will show you the basics, but check out our

6 brilliant recipes to get kids cooking!

Our 10 favourite vegan summer recipes

6 of the best risotto recipes

Jamie calls the

Pasta recipes for kids

It’s so much easier to cook one dish for everyone, and this mix of pasta bakes, classics such as spag Bol, and one-pan wonders will have everyone asking for seconds. We've even thrown in a few sneaky tricks to pack in the veg for the fussy eaters of the family. Buon appetito!

Soup – the world in a bowl

For January we want to give you the gift of soup on JamieOliver.com. With How To videos and recipes we’ll help you beat the post-Christmas come-down. Plus if you've got a cold or the flu, there is solid evidence that

The perfect Valentine's Day pasta recipe

Make your Valentine the perfect meal, from scratch, with our help.

Lasagne for Easter

By Ren Behan

Gennaro’s perfect chicken

Jamie’s friend and mentor Gennaro Contaldo has made us a How To video of his favourite chicken dish. He cooks up this beautiful Italian-influenced Chicken with Chilli, Rosemary and Garlic during what can only be described as a monsoon on a recent trip to the Amalfi Coast. Overlooking his beautiful and unspoilt hometown of Minori, Gennaro creates this sticky, spicy beauty – to feed four.

Wood-fired pizza perfection

Have you ever eaten a proper pizza, cooked in a wood-fired oven? Well if you haven’t you don’t know what you’re missing, if you have it’s probably one of the best things you’ve eaten. Real wood fire and a proper oven does something magical to food; and of course it’s not just pizzas. But the way pizza crust bubbles, bursts and chars, that’s what you want, not a pappy thick crust with half-a-ton of nameless cheese. Three ingredients, maximum flavor, minimum fuss.

Eat well: pledging for change

Many times throughout the year, registered nutritionists and dieticians from all over the UK come together. As a member of Nutritionists in Industry (NII) (

Vegetarian pizza ideas

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A good risotto

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Balsamic Vinegar – going to new depths

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A taste of Jamie’s new Trattoria

Aaaah, Richmond-Upon-Thames! For those of you lucky enough to have visited this Surrey borough of London, you'll know it echoes with Tudor ghosts and Georgian architectural genius. British rock royalty have homes here (Mick Jagger and Pete Townsend among them) and the river winds its way past honeyed stone and palladian grandeur.

Pizza party!

Incredibly, the modern Italian pizza we all know and love is only said to have originated in Naples, Italy, about a hundred or so years ago. The most famous of modern pizzas, a pizza margherita, depicts the red, white and green colours of the Italian flag using tomato sauce, mozzarella and fresh basil.

Family pizza night: bacon jam pizza

We all love pizza night because it’s simply fun; and how can you not enjoy spending time together as a family, listening to music, and creating something you can eat? That’s a win-win in my book.

Kneading – bread, pizza and pasta with kids

There are lots of really straightforward activities to try with kids in the kitchen and they’ll love the idea of rolling up their sleeves and getting a bit messy. Let’s start with some ideas for making homemade bread, pizza and pasta, to introduce the technique of kneading.

Pizza: a slice of my childhood

By Maddie Rix

Wood-fired inspiration: the best pizza

We’ve only been buddies for the last month, but I can already tell we’re going to grow old together. Woody is a Jamie Oliver Wood Fired Oven, and he can turn simple recipes into gorgeous outdoor showstoppers.

Orzo pasta with prawns & summer courgettes

Words and photos by Ren Behan

Gluten-free pasta carbonara

I’m fortunate enough not to have any specific dietary requirements or allergies – except, bizarrely, to red and green peppers. It catches me out on occasion when they find their way into something unexpected, such as a tomato-based sauce made with roasted vegetables.

The ultimate homemade pasta guide

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