Olive Magazine

At olive we believe you can eat imaginatively and well without spending a fortune. Every month we aim to inspire food lovers to cook new dishes, but it's not all about cooking at home. The magazine has three main sections, eat in, eat out, eat away so you'll also find great value restaurants, top recommendations and tips from around the world. In every issue: 100+ easy, stylish recipes all triple tested, 7 meals for under £35, great value restaurants, bargain travel ideas

Welcome

Your brand-new Olive – our promise to you

bringing you the best

may inspiration • Ideas and uplifting news for the month, including al fresco accessories to covet, create a must-try jambalaya, and the pizza hot spots on our radar

Creating • Each month we take a new supermarket product for a spin and ask a food writer to create a recipe using it. Here, Keshia Sakarah experiments with chicken sausages

Helping people with disabilities in the food industry

Why you should buy mixed sized eggs

Blacklock’s white chocolate cheesecake

LISTEN UP! • Three reasons to download the Olive magazine podcast

recreate our stunning cover photo? • Treat yourself to our gorgeous harissa and honey roast salmon (p24), and then send us a photo of your dish for the chance to win a Le Creuset square roaster, worth £119.

Teaming up to fight child food poverty • Tom Kerridge and footballer Marcus Rashford have united to create Full Time, a new initiative in support of the #EndChildFoodPoverty campaign launched by Marcus in September 2020, in partnership with his Child Poverty Taskforce (endchildfoodpoverty.org)

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coveting • Dining al fresco will be all the rage for the foreseeable future, so add colour and comfort to outdoor gatherings

CORNISH SAFFRON COMPANY

pizza by the slice

cook • Make the most of May’s bountiful produce, spring dishes made for dining al fresco, and irresistible yet simple cake tin bakes

How to make the most of May’s best ingredients

sunshine flavours • Whether you’re eating in or dining al fresco, these recipes promise to bring blissful vibes whatever the weather

cook’s notes

Everyday healthy • Five wholesome recipes for easy, nourishing midweek meals

Look out for the following

Fancy a slice? • These simple yet irresistible ‘cut and come again’ cakes will see you through a week’s worth of teatime treats

A vision of Vietnam • These exquisite recipes from Uyen Luu bring the distinct flavours of this Southeast Asian cuisine to your table

Meet Charlie Bigham. You couldn’t make him up.

Love your leftovers • Transform the salad and herbs at the back of your fridge into a fragrant pesto, perfect in this golden, cheesy toastie

Who ate all the pies? Charlie did.

3 ways with soft cheese • Inventive ideas that make the most of this fridge staple

cook’s notes

White miso • We put branded products to the test so you know which ones to look out for

discover • Learn how to recreate the pillowy street-food dumplings of northern China, stock up on high-quality canned wines now that picnic season is here, and be guided through the distinctive cuisines of Cambodia and Turkey

eat in eat out Baozilnn • Learn how to make pillowy, comforting dumplings from northern China, a signature street-food dish from this London restaurant group

menu decoder

cook’s notes

The Measure • This month sees summer ciders, pisco martinis and Tennessee whiskey take centre stage

Wines that prove their mettle • Picnic season nears, so now is the time to explore just how good canned wines can be

wines to try this month

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