A foolproof recipe to make an easy apple and almond cake
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an apple cake that's as easy as it is scrumptious.
Melanie Johnson is a food writer, photographer and stylist
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an apple cake that's as easy as it is scrumptious.
Melanie Johnson's recipe makes the most of the season's fresh, juicy pears alongside a delicious bread recipe.
With figs in season, Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful galette recipe that really lets them be the star.
Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful late summer recipe which makes the most of the plum harvest.
Fresh sweetcorn is an annual treat that is at its best; Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of it.
Pavlova is always good. Now it's even better.
Homegrown runner beans turn this lovely lamb cutlet dish into something memorable.
Country Life's kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a sensational recipe which makes the most of the cherry tomatoes now in season.
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of redcurrants, a sharp but tasty seasonal fruit.
Melanie Johnson is here with what is ostensibly a cake, but is in fact a truck to drive straight through your early-summer diet plans.
If ever a vegetable's diminutive size belied the flavour it delivers, it's the pea. Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of the fresh crop.
Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an unusual — but delicious — take on carrot cake.
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful creamy tarragon chicken recipe.
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful way to cook salmon that makes the most of the new season's watercress.
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe that brings zing and colour to a classic risotto.
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson is as excited as the rest of us by the first asparagus of the season.
Spring onions are for more than merely salads, says our Kitchen Garden Cook Melanie Johnson.
Melanie Johnson shares a salmon recipe ideal to go with 'perfect' Jersey Royals.
Kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a winter warming recipe — a chicken dish which really zings.
‘Broccoli is an exciting green at a time of year when the kitchen garden feels a little sparse,' says our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson as she shares this recipe.