I received this email this week. I’ve always wondered what it is like to enter one of these food competitions. (Or enter many, as it seems if you are into it, you enter loads of them and it becomes an obsession.) Seems like we have a couple of front-runners from Alberta. Good luck to them both! I mean, they can win a $10,000 kitchen. How great is that.
From the press release:
TORONTO – Two women from Alberta have been selected as semi-finalists in the 2009 Canadian Living Samsung Cook of the Year Contest.
A total of sixteen semi-finalists were chosen from hundreds of entries submitted by recreational cooks across Canada.
The fourth annual Cook of the Year Contest launched in April and invited Canadians who love to cook to submit their original recipe for the chance to win fabulous prizes worth more than $10,000, including a Samsung deluxe kitchen package, and have their recipe published in Canadian Living Magazine.
Caitlin Wiltshire of Sherwood Park, Alberta was selected in the Poultry Category for her Lebanese Lemon-Curry Chicken Kebobs with Carrot Risotto. Caitlin was motivated by a lemon chicken dish she enjoyed at a restaurant. She combined that with a love (and intense craving) for carrot cake to come up with this delicious semi-finalist recipe.
Karen Schlyter of Calgary, Alberta’s recipe for Glazed Short Ribs with Jerusalem artichoke and Potato Latkes was selected as a semi-finalist in the Red Meat category. Living in Alberta, beef seemed a natural choice for Karen who has enjoyed creating her own unique dishes since the birth of her son six years ago. She wanted to create a recipe that was unique, not too complicated and most importantly, tasty.
The winner of the 2009 Canadian Living Samsung Cook of the Year Contest will be announced in the November 2009 issue of Canadian Living.
Readers can look for it on newsstands starting October 12, 2009.
