(New, series 7, programme five)
RTÉ One, 8pm, Wednesday November 29th 2023
Popular Cork chef Rory O’Connell marks his 40th anniversary of teaching students to cook with this brand new 7th series of How to Cook Well.
The new 7-part series includes short contributions from just a few of his thousands of students, including Eoin Cluskey from Bread 41, food writer Lily Higgins, Jack Kirwan of Sprout, Colm Keane of Daddy’s Café, and Scott Holder, owner of the Los Chicanos Mexican Food Truck.
In each programme, Rory prepares three dishes which make a harmonious and perfectly balanced three course meal, or which can of course be served individually.
As always, Rory’s dishes are simple yet sophisticated, and easily achievable by anyone interested in cooking, increasing the home cook’s skills and confidence.
Programme five:
Rory prepares Hot Buttered Oysters on Toast for this week’s starter, followed by Italian Beef Stew served with Gremolata, and Scallion Champ.
This week’s dessert is Chocolate St Emillion with Macarons.
Rory says: “In my new series I reflect that this year coincides with 40 years of my involvement in teaching students how to cook. My career began in restaurant kitchens where I learned from great chefs – good restaurant kitchens can be places of great learning and a generous chef will impart knowledge on a daily basis to his cooks. Almost without realising it, I too became a teacher, at first in some of the kitchens I had cooked in, and later in the more formal setting of a demonstration room.
“Teaching gives me great pleasure as the joy of sharing knowledge feels like an extra and unexpected gift I have been granted. Through my television shows I have always approached the content with a view to the audience being able to clearly understand what it is I am doing, and thereby empowering cooks at home to recreate what they have seen on the shows.
“As a teacher, you are planting a seed – opening up a journey of learning for your students. In due course, some students surpass the teacher’s capabilities which I consider a cause for celebration and an added impetus to keep learning – to learn from my students.
In the series, I have chosen dishes that I feel are great teaching dishes and stand the test of time. Old favourites, yes, but still relevant, still delicious, still dishes I want to cook and eat”.
How to Cook Well with Rory O’Connell is produced and directed by David Hare for InproductionTV and sponsored by Kerrygold
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