Popular pasta maker Danny Freeman has tried his hand at another royal kitchen creation after tackling Meghan Markle’s controversial one-pot spaghetti recipe.
Danny, who goes by the Instagram name ‘Danny Loves Pasta’, is popular on social media thanks to his creative takes on Italian cooking and pasta making, including ravioli in the shape of Taylor Swift and cartoon characters like Bluey.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, Danny shared a clip that showed him tackling Kate Middleton’s recipe for macaroni and cheese.
Before he started making the dish he was adamant he didn’t want to pit the two women against each other.
‘I really don’t want this turning into a post comparing Meghan to Princess Kate, but after my video about trying out Meghan Markle’s pasta made international news, I learned that Kate Middleton is also a fan of pasta,’ Danny began the clip.
‘Maybe this could bring them together. I don’t know.’
While Danny did not have Kate’s exact recipe, he used an interview the Princess Of Wales gave to People Magazine back in 2019 about the foods her children George, 11, Charlotte, nine, and Louis, six, love to eat at home.
Popular pasta maker Danny Freeman has tried his hand at another royal kitchen creation after tackling Meghan Markle ‘s controversial one-pot spaghetti recipe
‘Now, we don’t have much to go on. According to People Magazine, she said one kid puts in the flour, one adds the milk and butter, so I’m thinking some form of a stove- top mac ‘n’ cheese,’ Danny said as he began preparing the dish.
‘This is my recipe but I always start with butter and flour, then I use evaporated milk. It just gives a better, creamier texture.
‘Then salt, pepper, garlic powder and Dijon. For this I use an English cheddar and a Dutch gouda, just add a little bit at a time – you want it to really melt into a nice smooth sauce.
While Danny stopped short of directly comparing the two royal pasta creations he gave Kate’s dish a tick of approval.
‘I don’t know I could see a royal child eating this – it’s good,’ he said.
‘My daughter thinks she’s a princess and she loves a cheesy sauce.
‘I feel like if you are a princess with chefs working for you but you want to try your hand at a family dinner, this is going to be a quick and easy one to do.’
Danny’s latest creation comes after he took on Meghan’s one-pot spaghetti recipe earlier this week.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, Danny shared a clip that showed him tackling Kate Middleton’s recipe for macaroni and cheese
‘I really don’t want this turning into a post comparing Princess Meghan to Princess Kate, but after my video about trying out Meghan Markle’s pasta made international news, I learned that Kate Middleton is also a fan of pasta,’ Danny began the clip
The Duchess of Sussex divided fans with her controversial recipe for one-pot spaghetti which features in episode one of her Netflix series With Love, Meghan.
The episode sees the Duchess of Sussex tackling a dish called ‘skillet spaghetti’, which she tells viewers she regularly cooks for Prince Harry and their children, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three.
On Monday, the social media star shared a clip showing him testing Meghan’s one-pot meal.
‘This is the most controversial pasta in the world right now. I made Meghan Markle’s single skillet spaghetti and as a pasta expert, let me tell you my true feelings,’ Danny says in the video.
‘This is from her new show With Love, Meghan. She says she makes this for her kids. She puts the leftovers in their lunchboxes. She didn’t really give a precise recipe, but I wrote one up based on what she was doing and I put it in the caption.’
Danny starts the recipe by cutting cherry tomatoes and adding them to a skillet with olive oil, salt and garlic.
He says he would add an extra step in the method to help bring out the flavours of the dish.
‘Now personally, I would sauté the (garlic) first to get a little bit more flavour, but she has the dry spaghetti right on top and a bunch of lemon zest and then the stems of some Swiss chard,’ Danny adds.
While Danny stopped short of directly comparing the two royal pasta creations, he gave Kate’s dish a tick of approval. ‘I don’t know I could see a Royal child eating this – it’s good,’ he said
He then reaches the controversial part of the recipe, however Danny hints that Meghan may have been on to something with her unique method.
‘Now this is where it gets controversial,’ Danny says.
‘She boils water in a tea kettle, adds that to the skillet, cooks the spaghetti for a few minutes, adds kale and Swiss chard and cooks it some more and she is right.
‘When you cook pasta in just a little bit of water, you get really starchy water that can make your sauce creamy without cream.’
Continuing his assessment, Danny reveals that his children would not be as appreciative of the ingredients as Archie and Lilibet.
‘When the pasta’s done she adds red pepper flakes, parmesan and arugula. My kids are not as healthy as hers, apparently, because they would definitely pick around all these greens. But I really like how this turned out,’ he says.
Rounding out his post, Danny gives Meghan’s controversial dish his tick of approval.
‘It is fast and the texture of the sauce is really nice. You can also try this with broth instead of water that will add a little bit more flavour because this sauce was just a little bit bland,’ he says.
On Monday, the social media star, who goes by the Instagram name ‘Danny Loves Pasta’, shared a clip showing him testing Meghan’s controversial one-pot meal that featured in her Netflix series With Love, Meghan
‘It is fast and the texture of the sauce is really nice. You can also try this with broth instead of water that will add a little bit more flavour because this sauce was just a little bit bland,’ Danny said.
‘But I love this method, I love a one-pot meal, so Meghan, I think this recipe is a keeper.’
Danny’s video came after fans expressed their horror over the dish Meghan whipped up with her close friend, make-up artist Daniel Martin.
‘Netflix paid a lot of money just to let us know Meghan Markle doesn’t know how to cook pasta,’ one person wrote on X.
‘Next she’ll show us how to make frozen pizza!’ another joked.
Another lamented: ‘She overcooked the noodles. Slimy looking.’
‘Wtf is that? It looks like she made some sort of soup, cooked the vegetables to hell, tossed in some spaghetti and called it a day,’ a user commented.
‘The pasta looks fine in the end, but I think Italians screamed at their TVs when she poured water into the sauce,’ someone else observed.
Others, however, came to the Duchess’ defence.
‘It looked delicious to me,’ one person wrote.
In another moment that might annoy an entire European nation, the Duchess calls the popular Italian pasta ‘noodles’ more than once while prepping the meal.
And when Parmesan cheese is grated to finish the dish, Meghan pronounces it ‘Parmigian’, a slightly tweaked version of the Italian word, Parmigiana.
