The Duchess of Sussex has stepped onto the small screen with her Netflix series premiere, With Love, inviting viewers into her world of culinary arts, gardening, and entertaining insights designed to sprinkle enjoyment into everyday life. In the show's debut, Meghan divulges her adored pasta recipe at the dinner table for Prince Harry and their little ones, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. While it was a smash hit within the royal household, some onlookers were less than enthused, calling it "punishment".

During a heart-to-heart with her pal, celebrity makeup artist Daniel Martin, Meghan revealed, "When I make this, I make it for my family." She added soberly, "Not that my children are eating heaps of noodles, but I will make enough so that I can put leftovers in their lunchbox." Meghan also discussed her now defunct blog, The Tig, noting, "This skillet spaghetti would have been on there."

Meghan stirred up a frenzy online with her unconventional pasta approach, creating a dish that sparked conversation amongst food enthusiasts.

The innovative Duchess took to the culinary stage by combining dry spaghetti, feta, and tomatoes in a Le Creuset skillet pan. Then, she dipped the assembly in three and a half cups of boiling water and capped it with a lid.

"You just pour boiling water on top and that's it," Meghan declared, following up the process with an ample sprinkle of lemon zest.

As the pasta neared completion, she added healthy addition of chard and kale to the skillet.

Defying time-honoured Italian cooking methods, where pasta basks in a generous pot of salted boiling water before meeting its sauce companion, Meghans' method raised eyebrows.

One Italian cuisine guardian blasted onto a certain social media platform decrying this method as a departure from "the basics" of traditional Italian cooking.

Another sceptic lamented: "Another American destroying Italian food."

Meanwhile, a third remarked: "That's not food - that's punishment!"

The feedback wasn't all resistance; some expressed gratitude to the Duchess for her inspiring kitchen presence.

An enthused fan commented about being traditionally kitchen-averse but finding joy in the simplicity of Meghan's recipe: "Ordinarily I loathe cooking but Meghan's inspired me to find the joy in it - not perfection."

Meanwhile, another supporter can't wait to try their hand at the Royal dish: "That pasta - a must to try and make. Duchess Meghan makes it all look so easy and doable. I'm hooked already."