***Please note – TX times are provisional until the final schedules are issued on Tuesday 3 December***
Sunday December 22nd and Monday December 23rd 2024, RTÉ One
Sunday 7.30pm and Monday 7pm (Please note the different tx times)
Rory O’Connell is back with two brand new Christmas specials in which he shares festive recipes and creative cooking tips to help make cooking over the holiday period a stress free and enjoyable experience. Last year, Rory’s Christmas programmes attracted a combined audience of 553,000 viewers. Rory has been teaching people how to cook for 40 years – the Ballymaloe Cookery School which Rory co-founded with his sister Darina celebrated its 40th anniversary last year.
“The ritual around eating and meals is about so much more than just the food itself”, Rory says.
” And I suppose that’s never more true, really, than at Christmas”.
“It’s the time of the year when you pull out some of those dishes that you only use once a year, and most of the preparations can be done before your guests arrive, allowing you, the cook, to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.”
Programme one: Sunday December 22nd, 7.30pm
In the first of Rory’s two new festive programmes he prepares Salad of Roast Butternut Squash with Chickpeas and Salmoriglio, an Italian lemon and herb sauce .
He follows this with Savoury Turkey and Ham Bread and Butter Pudding, and Rory completes this first menu with Chocolate and Pear Flan.
