Melissa Hemsley

Cookery Writer | Chef | Sustainability Champion

Unprocess your diet with
easy everyday recipes

THINGS THAT MAKE
MY HEART SING

A Journal of Comfort & Joy

I write a Substack newsletter, where I share lots of recipes, tips and tricks for loving your leftovers, interviews, recommendations and snippets of family life with our baby girl, Summer, and dog, Nelly. If youā€™d like to join my lovely community of readers, please subscribe below!

Real food from my book

Easy, life-friendly recipes to help you unprocess your diet

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The Green Edit

CONSCIOUS ESSENTIALS FOR
A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE

ā€œIā€™m a former private chef turned food columnist, best-selling cookbook author, real food activist and sustainability champion who is passionate about spreading the power of feel-good food.

I write a Substack newsletter, where I share lots of recipes, tips and tricks for loving your leftovers, interviews, recommendations and snippets of family life with our baby girl, Summer, and dog, Nelly.ā€

Hanging onto summer with this salad. Grilled courgettes and feta with almonds, orange and herbs. Roast the courgettes if you like, toss with beans, chickpeas, cooked rice, pasta or quinoa or potatoes for heartiness. Feeds 2, takes 15 minutes 2 med
I read this at the start of each month (and a good few times in between). Never fails to stop me in my tracks. Hope it gives you a gentle hug too this “busy busy back to everything month” @thepoeticunderground always grateful for findin
It feels like the last few days of summer doesn’t it? I’m making this for my lunch…. Crispy chickpea, tomato & cucumber salad Feeds 4, takes 20 minutes 6 eggs or swap for roasted tofu 1 tin of chickpeas or beans 1 medium c
šŸ“ŗ On morning TV today šŸŽ„ making šŸ‘‰šŸ½ easy lunchboxes that are good enough for a Sunday lunch or weeknight dinner @bbcmorninglive Feeding @hollyhamiltontv and @seanfletchertv from my Feel Good cookbook because food and mood are so connected and we al
My salad is a Cover Girl šŸ‘‰šŸ½ Tahini Caesar Roasted Butterbean lunchbox salad & chickpea “chuna” tuna style but tuna less (!) in todays @guardianfeast back to school magazine special šŸ˜‹ Had a beaut day in Hampstead where we found co