Pasta is the perfect food. Low cost, healthy, and tasty, its versatility makes it a regular feature on home dining tables as well as on the most sophisticated of restaurant menus, either dressed with just one or two ingredients, or with more elaborate sauces. Showcasing 46 different pasta types in more than 300 – recipes from classics such as Penne Arrabbiata and Spaghetti Carbonara, to more ambitious dishes such as Soufflé of Capellini and Linguine with Lobster – this is the ultimate guide to cooking pasta the Italian way.

Organised by pasta type, it also includes easy-to-follow instructions for making your own fresh pasta, sections on dried and fresh, long and short, cut and filled pasta, and entries on the Italian origins of many ingredients.  The Silver Spoon is known throughout the world as the authoritative voice on Italian cuisine and the leading Italian culinary resource – this book is the perfect guide to the most Italian of ingredients.

The wok is an incredibly quick, heat-efficient cooking method – and a lot less expensive (and bulky) than an air fryer. Chinese and Asian cuisines have also always featured recipes that use cheaper ingredients. In Wok for Less, Sunday Times bestselling author Ching-He Huang focuses on these traditional, clever ways to reduce costs – all without scrimping on taste.

From creative ways to make fish, seafood and meat go further, to inventive veg-packed dishes that will satisfy the most committed carnivore, and ideas for using storecupboard ingredients to make multiple meals, the recipes will not only bring you joy but will save you both time and money.

Praise for Asian Green
‘There’s a lot more than wok-based cooking in this beautifully photographed book.’
The Times

‘The Greens Goddess’ Daily Mail

The Times Best Food Books of the Year 2021

Evening Standard Best Vegetarian Cookbooks 2022

In the past decade, mac and cheese has become indispensable on menus across the globe, from dive diners to artisan eateries, delectable dinner parties to favoured food trucks. So loved is the cheesy goodness, it is served as both a simple side and a magnificent masterpiece in its own right.

With MAC + CHEESE, learn to make the ultimate comfort food in 60 recipes at home – from Deep-fried Mac and Cheese Bites and Mac & Cheese Muffins, to Breakfast Mac and Cheese and Lobster Mac and Cheese – ideal for a swanky dinner party or a quick weekday meal. Across these mouth-watering pages, discover how to prepare this glorious dish to suit your personal taste, plans, cooking level – and ability to think outside the box!

Welcome to your new favourite family cookbook!

With 10 weekly meal plans and shopping lists for 100 tasty, triple-tested recipes – all cooked in just one pan – making dinner has never been simpler.

Whether you’re reaching for your slow cooker, pan or baking sheet, this book is packed full of crowd-pleasing dishes for even the fussiest eaters. From Comfort Food and Piles of Pasta, to Bakes and Breads, Speedy Suppers, Meat-free Meals and Weekend Breakfasts, you’ll find yourself turning to this book week after week.

This is real food to make and share, big on taste and completely fuss-free!

Tired of eating the same old pasta from a box? Danny Freeman, the pasta maker of TikTok, has the solution for you. Danny Loves Pasta will teach you how to make colorful and creative fresh pasta, unlike anything you can find at the store.

Potted succulent ravioli, rose tortellini, pumpkin-shaped gnocchi, pasta pinwheels-all these and more are possible for even the most novice of pasta makers. With no special equipment needed, you will learn how to take simple ingredients like flour, eggs, beets, and spinach, and turn them into vibrant works of delicious pasta art in every color of the rainbow. This book will feature:
– 5 dough recipes (vegan and gluten-free options included)
– 13 ways to add color
– 7 foundations for pattern making
– 6 traditional pasta shapes
– 9 new pasta shapes
– 14 fillings and sauces

You’ll then learn how to use vegetables, herbs, and spices to naturally add color to your dough so you can make everything from rainbow ravioli to striped spaghetti. Using simple techniques, you’ll be able to create eye-catching pasta designs like tie-dye, polka dots, and plaid, and pair them with traditional Italian pasta shapes like farfalle, tortellini, and linguini.

You’ll then take pasta to new heights by creating shapes and designs you’ve never seen before: pasta plants, flowers, animals, and more. These edible sculptures are as tasty as they are beautiful (not to mention, great for entertaining and family dinners), yet they’re surprisingly simple to create by combining traditional pasta-making techniques with lessons learned from origami, jewelry-making, cake decorating, and other crafts.

And don’t forget the sauce! You’ll then learn how to pair your creations with the perfect sauce, with modern spins on classic Italian recipes that can become weeknight staples.

Feed Your Family for Under a Fiver is the debut cookbook from TikTok sensation Mitch Lane, saving your family’s mealtimes, and your budget!

Mitch Lane AKA @mealsbymitch is one of the UK’s most-loved home cooks, providing quality budget recipes and helping families up and down the country to cope with the cost-of-living crisis.

This book is packed full of easy, comforting, crowd-pleasing recipes that anyone can make on a budget, no matter your experience. These recipes don’t demand much space, expensive kitchen equipment, or a long list of ‘store cupboard’ spices and ingredients. Mitch set himself the challenge of walking into the supermarket with a fiver and coming out with everything he needed to make a meal – and now he’s sharing it with you.

Including delicious recipes such as: Tandoori Chicken Traybake, Halloumi Tacos with Salsa and Chilli Yoghurt, Vegetable Quesadillas, Budget Carbonara, Cheap Chicken Roast Dinner, Chorizo Hash, and Spicy Noodle Soup, to name a few!

What are you waiting for? Dig in and get cooking!

The Pasta Man is back, and this time he’s going BIGGER and BETTER. In Pasta Masterclass, Instagram-sensation Mateo Zielonka reveals how you too can make his eye-catching, delicious creations. With “how to” sections guiding you through every shape, including recipes for his famous coloured doughs, step-by-step photos and QR codes linking to videos on every pasta shape included in the book, he then offers over 40 delicious recipes in which to fill or coat your creations.

Illustrated with stunning photography and video content, let yourself be guided by a master and enjoy the meditative process of making beautiful pasta.

‘Cucina povera’ is the food that traditionally fed the poor of Italy yet remains the basis of most Italian dishes we love to eat today. It’s a simple philosophy – delicious, hearty meals using accessible and affordable ingredients. Encouraging an ethos of zero waste, Gennaro’s Cucina ensures that every part of the ingredient, and your budget, is put to good culinary use.

Along with the majority of post-war Italian families, a young Gennaro was raised on a diet harvested on a limited budget. Restricted choice of scarce ingredients meant they learnt the value what they had, how to cook dishes lovingly and use imaginative methods of preservation to make simple dishes go far: including salting, drying and curing.

In this inspirational cookbook, Gennaro takes you on a culinary journey of regional basic Italian staples and turns them into beautiful meals. With tips and ideas of what to do with leftovers, Gennaro helps home cooks squeeze maximum use from the ‘cucina povera’ ethos, turning humble ingredients into nourishing feasts without taste sacrifice.

From Sicilian chickpea fritters to lentil soups and bread salads – to more elaborate filled vegetables, delicious ‘poor-man’s’ ricotta dumplings and simple sweet biscotti, this book will transform the way you shop, cook and eat.

CHAPTERS:
BREAD / DOUGH
PASTA
RICE, POLENTA & GRAINS
BEANS & PULSES
VEGETABLES
EGGS
FISH & MEAT
SIMPLE SWEET TREATS

After the success of bestseller Veggiestan, Sally Butcher continues her gastronomic journey along the Silk Road with Veganistan. In response to many requests in her Peckham restaurant, Persepolis, Sally has created a vegan cookbook celebrating plants and wholefoods with the luscious flavours of the Middle East.

A masterclass in inventive vegan cooking, the chapters range from hot and cold mezze, fermentation and pickling, and bread and grains to delicious desserts, divine drinks, and vegan meat, dairy and egg substitutes. Stand-out recipes include beetroot and sour cherry gazpacho, mushroom and chestnut borek, seitan kebabs, Persepolitan sauerkraut, and quince and cardamom trifle.

Written in Sally’s witty and reassuring voice, Veganistan will bring something new to your kitchen and equip you with the skills to make stunning vegan food for any occasion.

Contents:
Simple Meze
Salads and Cold Starters
Soups, Snacks and Hot Starters
Bread, Rice and Grains
From the Stewing Pot
From the Oven
From the Frying Pan and Into the Fire
Salted, Smoked, Fermented and Pickled Foods
Sweet Treats
Drinks
A Cheater’s Guide to Vegan ‘Meat’: ‘Dairy’ and ‘Egg’ Substitutes