Happy Birthday, Dear Tetley!

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Many happy returns of the day, dear Tetley. Lord S sends his warmest regards as well.

Here's our latest favourite recipe - it's quick, easy, and the ultimate comfort food for two. Or for one very greedy one, but then you had better not plan on doing anything for the rest of the day.



Quantities are for two.

For the French part:
1 camembert, smallish (or unleash your inner pig and have it largish)
brin of rosemary
clove of garlic
Lug of olive oil

For the Italian part:
200 g penne
150 g of spinach
50 g parmesan
salt and pepper (go easy on the salt)

Preheat oven to 180C. Unwrap camembert and return to wooden box. Cut a circle in of the top - leave a rim of about 0,5 - 1 cm at the edge. Peel off the circle. Finely slice the garlic and peel the leaves of the rosemary stalk. Put garlic and rosemary on top of the cheese, sprinkle with olive oil and press softly with your fingertips to cover the rosemary in oil.

Put in oven for 25 minutes.

Check cooking time of pasta and boil it so that pasta is ready two or three minutes before camembert.

During the last 10 seconds of boiling the pasta, add the spinach and let wilt. Drain the pasta & spinach in a colander over a bowl to keep the cooking water.

Return to pan, let spinach wilt further if necessary, add parmesan and stir until it forms a sauce over the pasta. If too thick, add a spoonful of cooking water.

Serve pasta in two bowls, serve camembert on the side, and let each add spoonfuls of gooey camembert to their pasta.

Oh, and put the camembert on a tinfoil sheet in the oven - a few drops may run over, and this saves you cleaning the oven afterwards.