This week, Meghan released her brand-new lifestyle show ‘With Love, Meghan’ on to the streaming service.
Previously delayed due to the LA Wildfires, the series sees Meghan show off her favourite recipes, crafts and home remedies as she’s joined by friends and professional chefs.
The series is arguably catered to an American audience who love celebrity life advice/ cooking shows, something which Brits often turn their chin up to.
Nevertheless, many Netflix holders will be curious to see what advice and recipes Meghan has, myself included.
So like many fellow intrigued Brits, I hunted down a few recipes curated by the Duchess of Sussex, and landed on her pasta salad and the questionable ‘sun tea’.
After translating half the ingredients from American terms to British terms, I headed down to the supermarket, got all I needed and got ready to cook like Meghan, here’s how it went.
You can see all the recipes from With Love, Meghan via Netflix.
I tried Meghan Markel’s recipes and hated every second of it
The pasta salad
Starting with the pasta salad, Meghan (as any pro does) made it look super calm and easy, but that was clearly a Hollywood edit.
The first step asked for an ice-cold bowl with ice cubes to shock the vegetables, well I had one tray of ice which did very little in effort and that was my first hurdle.
After cooking the peas for 30 seconds, I then moved them to the ice water as instructed, that was easy enough.
However, then came the Swiss chard which I’ll be honest, I had never heard of, so while hunting it down on the internet and visiting every supermarket near me I could think of, I got nothing.
So, I went with another green leaf, the old faithful spinach, which is as close as I could get to, trust me, I tried to find the chard.
After blanching the spinach, I dunked it in the not-so-iced water now, moved on to the simple task of cooking the pasta.
Meghan’s instruction says to add “enough salt to the water so it ‘tastes of the sea'”, so I did just that, and not to spoil the end result, it ruined the meal.
But before we get into that, I made the vinaigrette which was simple enough – shallots, chilli flakes and olive oil.
To get the final result, I mixed everything together as instructed, served with some pasta and got ready to taste.
Let me tell you, I’ve had bad pasta, but I’ve not had anything quite like this.
All the elements should work well together, but there was something about the salt and the peas in one that just ruined the meal.
It was like there was too much, I would have preferred if it was just the feta, peas and the vinaigrette, but the ‘taste like the sea’ instruction ruined the meal.
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However, I think if you took away the salt and focused on the greens and feta, this could be a tasty meal, but as it is, it’s a pass for me.
The ‘Sun Tea’
When I saw there was a recipe for ‘sun tea’, I assumed it was going to be a fruity mix – nothing prepared me for what it really is.
Meghan makes her own mix of tea with dried hibiscus and ‘dehydrated lemon wheels’, well I don’t know about you but I don’t have those sorts of ingredients in the kitchen.
So, I went to the shop, got a fruity tea blend and brought a jar (trust me with this one).
Sun tea is when you put a tea bag in a jar of water and let it “steep in the sun for 3-4 hours”.
Yep, nothing would have prepared me for that.
With my jar of tea ready, I set it on the window sill where it brewed for three hours, and when it was ready I tried it.
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It was awful.
I thought it was over brewed, so it lost flavour and was lukewarm. I just can’t understand why anyone would honestly do this as a normal thing.
Just stick to the proper way to brew tea, please.
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