A reward for the best PEI Potato Recipe!
The Red Sands Tourism Group, in partnership with the PEI Potato Board, is looking for the best PEI Potato Recipe EVER ... and they're prepared to pay for it!
As part of the upcoming Red Sands Potato Fest, September 10th, which celebrates Port-la-Joye-Fort Amherst National Historic Site of Canada and Parks Canada Agency's 100th Anniversary, the Red Sands Tourism Group invite submissions for the Best Potato Recipe Ever.
The winning recipe entry will receive a $500. cash prize from The Prince Edward Island Potato Board. As well as bragging rights, the winner's recipe will be featured on the PEI Potato Board website recipe index.
The Red Sands Potato Fest, a Fall Flavours Festival event, takes place on Saturday, September 10th, with a full day's activities. Special Host, Chef Mark McEwan, will be a guest judge of the potato recipe and host of the Cultural Potato Feast. Chef McEwan is a TV personality. acclaimed restaurant owner. gourmet grocerateur . author of the best-selling book, "Great Food At Home". He is host of Fine Living Network's ‘The Heat with Mark McEwan', a judge on‘Superstar Chef Challenge' and head judge on Food Network Canada's 2010 ‘Top Chef Canada', making him one of the most recognizable faces today in the Canadian fine food industry.
The feature event takes place in the evening, Chef McEwan and local chefs JD Runnels and Rob Pendergast will present an inspiring menu at the Potato Cultural Feast one of the Fall Flavours Festival's Signature Event. Featured will be Chef McEwans Lobster Poutine! The dinner is $65. Plus taxes with two seatings (4:30 and 7:00 pm). Advanced tickets are recommended and are available online at www.fallflavours.ca
Other events at Potato Fest include:
- Parks Canada Interpreters in period costume sharing culture and traditions of the French, and Acadian Cultures.
- Traditional Acadian games, potato sack races, potato spoon races.
- Entertainment featuring 10 Strings and a Goat Skin, as well as Gord Belsher and Cynthia Macleod
- Special lunch service featuring Fricot, Meat Pie, Gallettes blanchs and Potato Fudge.
- Re-enactment of the Annual Gift Exchange between the Mi'kmaq and the French with Parks Canada interpreters and Mi'kmaq artisans, stories and teachings
- Re-enactment of the musket drills typical of an 18th Century small French fort.
- Best Potato Recipe judging in Main tent with Chef Mark McEwan and The PEI Potato Board.
- Potato Fest is part of the Fall Flavours Festival, a month long culinary celebration highlighting authentic Island tastes and traditions that takes place during September in communities across Prince Edward Island. The Festival features a variety of acclaimed guest chefs hosting a wide range of unique culinary experiences. For more information, please visit the Festival web site www.fallflavours.ca
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Recipe Deadline is September 2nd, 2011
Top five recipes will be chosen by a panel of judges and contacted for presentation at Potato Fest. Be sure to include a contact name, phone number and e-mail if available.
To submit your potato recipe or for more information contact:
Michelle Thompson
Red Sands Potato Fest
P.O. Box 151, Hunter River PE C0A 1N0
902-394-3171
michelle@centralcoastaldrive.com
www.redsandspotatofest.com
Schedule of Events - September 10th, 2011
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Red Sands Potato Fest, September 10th, celebrates at Port-la-Joye-Fort Amherst National Historic Site of Canada
Entrance Fees: $10 adult, $5 child, $25 Family rate (parents & children under 12)
* Note: Anyone with purchased Signature Event Tickets for the Evening's Cultural Potato Feast Dinners seatings has free admission to the site.
Gates open at 10:00 am
Highlights
| 10: 00 | Welcome/Purification ceremony with Mi’kmaq elder Methilda Knockwood Snake |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Parks Canada interpretive presentation 'Fork to Farming' - English |
| 12:00 | Musket Fire Drill with soldiers from Fort Louisburg, NS National Historic Site of Canada |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Parks Canada interpretive presentation 'Fork to Farming' - Francais |
| 2:30 | History of the Potato's significance in history to present |
| 3:00 | Musket Drill re-enactment with 'soldier-for-a-day' assistance from participants |
ALL DAY - Children's Activities in the Activity Tent
Potato Crafts; Paper weaving, Potato sack races, potato spoon races.
11:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Traditional Lunch Service
Frico, Meat Pie, Gallettes Blanchs and potato fudge, with chefs Robert Pendergast, JD Runnels
$12.50 adults / $6.50 children
*There will also be a “local” Potato Fry truck on site for the day.
Storytelling: Outside of the Visitor Center
| 11:00 - 12:00 | The story of the Mi’kmaq with Traditional Games |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | The story of Michel Hache |
Craft Demos
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Painting with Gilbert Sark |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Traditional basket weaving |
Cooking Demos: Main Lodge
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Painting with Gilbert Sark |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Mi’kmaq 4 cent bread |
| 12:30 - 1:15 | British Shepard’s Pie |
| 1:45 - 2:30 | Acadian Fudge |
Entertainment
Main Stage
| 10:00 - 10:50 | Main stage children’s entertainment – New Generation Singers |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Gordon Belsher with Cynthia Macleod |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Samantha Lewis Hoop Dancer –Story Teller |
| 12:45 - 1:45 | Gordon Belsher with Cynthia McLeod |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | New Generation Singers featuring Samantha Lewis |
Sponsored Event: PEI Potato Board
| 4:00 | Potato Recipe judging and winner announcement! |
Evening
Fall Flavours Signature Event: Cultural Potato Feast
Featuring celebrity Chef, Mark McEwan with JD Runnels and Rob Pendergast.
Dinner Times:
1st dinner seating at 4:30-6:30pm
2nd dinner seating at 7:00-9:00pm
Cultural Potato Feast Menu
| Amuse Bouche | Rapture Bites (Acadian), Medallion Smoked Salmon on Potato Luskin with sour cream and herbs (Mi'kmaq) and Bubble and Squeak Poppers (British) |
| Appetizer | Mark McEwan's Signature Dish - Lobster Poutine |
| Main Course | Confit Pork 'n Potatoes – peas in gravy and market veggies (French/Acadian) |
| Dessert | Poutine a trou baies de IPE (Acadian) / Fresh Island Fruit Pastry |
Visit www.fallflavours.ca for tickets and more information.
2010 Winner for Best Darn Potato Recipe in PEI
Choosen for it's simplicty and ecomonic all around feel good family meal, full of flavour and great texture, this recipe was overall winner in the judges eyes.
Krystal Horudko!
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Potato SausageSoup |
Do you have the best potato recipe in PEI?
Win $500.00 prize from the PEI Potato Board
Submit your recipe for our 2011 Potato Fest here!
Submit your recipe at: michelle@centralcoastaldrive.com
See what the Guardian had to say about last year's Potato Fest!
1st Peel Off Competition held at Summerside Lobster Carnival
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