The Courvoisier Collective officially launched their
new program back in July taking on food and entitling their program
the Culinary Masterpieces. The new program was designed to ignite revolutionary
food creations while sparking the interesting and inspiring those in
the culinary industry to use cognac more in their recipes.
The Culinary Masterpieces program invited Ontario
culinary students and at-home chefs are asked to submit original recipe
creations infused with Courvoisier cognac. Throughout the summer
months, a panel of Toronto judges from the esteemed culinary community
(including Ici Bistro's JP Challet, The Grove's Ben Heaton and TURF
Lounge's Michael Kirkwood) put forward their finalists under the categories:
soup, salad, hors d'oeuvres or entrée.
On October 17, 2012 at Maison Mercer, the finalists
were selected and some of Toronto's top food bloggers and finest in
the culinary industry were invited to come out and try the dishes put
together. Some of these dishes included:
Korean Inspired Short Ribs by Jenn Lim: These were delicious with the cognac added a nice
glaze to it.
Lobster Corn Chowder by Doug Burke: Bite sized and beautifully prepared, one
of my favourite dishes of the evening. Lobster is something I
have seen used in a lot of dishes recently but not done as well as this.
Red Miso Beef Ribs with Mushroom Cognac Sauce by
Don Chow: These ribs were perfect and tender. The mushroom
cognac sauce I probably could have eaten all by itself, to be honest.
Duck Breast with Duxelle Ravioli by Steve Cylka: This fusion dish was incredible. It had all
the right mixes of Asian and Italian and left you wanting seconds and
thirds.
Marinated Duck Breast by Holly Bruce: Tender and juicy, almost melting in your mouth as
soon as you ate it.
However, their could only be one winner in each
category (Student and At-Home chef) for the prize of $1,000. The
winners were Doug Burke (Student Chef) for his Lobster Corn Chowder
preparation and Steve Cylka (At-Home Chef) for his Duck Breast with
Duxelle Ravioli.
Congratulations to all the winners. If you would like to find out more about the winners and download these recipes, please visit: http://www.
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Photos by Yuli Scheidt.
Amanda (Ama) Scriver is a foodie and music fiend. She is a food writer for Pink Mafia with her 'Eats' column and works as an event planner full-time. She enjoys random adventures that you can follow each and everyday through Twitter (@amapod) or follow through Instagram (username: amapod).
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