Options
The Good Cook - Fridays 7.30pm BBC1
degsyhufc
Posts: 59,251
Forum Member
✭
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012gg7q/The_Good_Cook_Episode_1/Award-winning food writer Simon Hopkinson shares his passion and expertise as he creates truly delicious meals. Drawing on his years of professional experience, Simon shows how food fit for a restaurant table can be made at home.
With useful tips and tricks of the trade, Simon demonstrates how to make a delicious-yet-simple pasta dish, scallops in a white butter sauce, his famous salad niçoise, a fantastic coq au vin and an irresistible sticky toffee pudding.
Across the series Simon will introduce the ingredients he cannot live without. In this episode, Simon shares his love for Italian porcini mushrooms and anchovies.
Recipies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/b012gg7q
0
Comments
What? So you don't go out to your 'local' wine merchants to bag an expensive bottle of plonk just to cook your chicken stew in then!?
How classist!
It's awful.....:(
What were you expecting? The Middle Classes defecate.
Btw, there is another thread somewhere....
I can't say I have ever seen a cock in the butchers or the supermarket.
He recommends Poulet de Bresse 'Label Anglaise' but says himself that 'they are not exactly on every supermarket shelf'
Seems to me people are being snippy for the sake of it. One complaining about not using a cock bird and others saying he's elitist
He's from Bury, he started working in kitchens as an apprentice in France at the age of 17 and opened his own restaurant aged just 21. He cooked for Elizabeth David and was highly commended by her. He was an Egon Ronay inspector. He still part owns a Restaurant after retiring from his cheffing career and has published several books which have sold in massive figures.
I'd quibble with anyone who thinks he doesn't know how to make authentic coq au vin, he's making a good dish accessible to more people that's all. If he'd said 'this dish must only be made with a cock bird' no doubt the BBC and message boards would've been flooded with complaints.
I once saw Piers Morgan in Waitrose.
Seriously though. I have seen Capons (castrated roosters) in the butchers but they usually sell for more per kilo then the hens - ironic as roosters are considered inferior and were once cheap meat for stewing. I think there is a serious lack of supply as commercial farming kills most of the males as chicks.
Price: £ 23.99 inc VAT
Its a speciality of a region of France. Not cheap.
Sorry I lived in France Coq a vin is Coq a vin, tastes absolutely nothing the same as the original dish, made with chicken. Its called coq a vin because its made with a cock - chicken does not resemble this dish at all, its depth of flavour, which chicken does not have.