How to make an apricot pavlova that makes amazing use of 'the golden jewels of summer'
Pavlova is always good. Now it's even better.
Melanie Johnson is a food writer, photographer and stylist
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.
Melanie Johnson on how to get sticky toffee date pudding right.
Melanie Johnson shares a fine recipe for a simple, hearty meal.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is all well and good — but using them in a chocolate cake is even better, says our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson.
Melanie Johnson shares an extravagantly hearty and grand recipe ideal for the time of year.
Melanie Johnson's chocolate bundt cake is a perfect mix of indulgence and using up leftovers.