Dick often serves a cheese course.  He is a fanatic for deep-fried Camembert cheeses – served with pommes frites, thin cut potato chips (also deep fried)  this dish is very unhealthy and should only be consumed as a special treat while in France.  The transformed, hot and bloated cheese is normally served on a plate of finely chopped green salad.  Take a fork full of chips and pierce the white flesh of the Camembert cheese.  Watch and inhale as it oozes its deliciousness onto the frites.  Twist your fork to encourage extra cheese to attach before ramming it in one’s expectant and grateful gob*.   

The whole Camembert cheese is plunged into hot oil (Dick recommends ground-nut oil).  It takes barely 30 seconds if the oil is hot enough and if it’s not hot enough the recipe will be disasterous.  It is best to place the cheese into a pan of oil with a wire basket already in situ – this allows the cook to remove the cheese at precisely the right moment and drain the cheese before placing on top of the waiting green salad. The fresh green, shredded salad should be dressed with just a smidgen of extra-virgin olive oil, the juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper to taste.

Do not forward this article to anyone you know who is on a low fat diet – this is guaranteed to bust it.

* Dick hates the word mouth and always refers to it as the “gob”.