Party time for local committee Chrysalide

A dinner party for sixty local residents at the Abattoir Cellars, that’s the prize won in November last year by the Cureghem committee “Chrysalide” at the “Wijk van de smaak” (“City quarter of taste”) contest, an annual culinary competition for local committees and other initiatives. Abattoir has been sponsoring this event for a couple of years already by opening its cellars for free. The banquet’s organization was taken care of by the Anderlecht CVO-Coovi Elishout cooking-school. The initiave came from the community centre “De Rinck”.

The “Waterzooi” dish from local committee Chrysalide wins “Wijk van de Smaak” title.

“Chrysalide”, the local committee neighbouring the Abattoir slaughterhouses, may call themselves all year long “City quarter of taste”. Community centre “De Rinck” has been organizing this culinary contest amongst local committees for the fifth time already. At the Coovi-Elishout school’s “cooking-tower”, “Waterzooi” was on the menu.
And the temperature rose at the top floor of the Coovi-Elishout school’s “cooking-tower”. The mission was simple, but mysterious at the same time: prepare a “Waterzooi” that matches the theme of “Water & Fire”. Each team could count three or a maximum of four members, none of them professionals.

City quarter party

The first prize went to the Chrysalide committee, four people living in the Cureghem “rue du Chapeau”. “We chose to work with a bio-chicken in combination with seasonal vegetables, brought to taste by using sweet pepper, kurkum, ginger, garlic and curry”, Sylvie Van Kerrebroeck explains. She and her teammates could invite 60 people living in the neighbourhood to take part in the huge party that was organized in the Abattoir Cellars on 7 February latest.  The “titbit prize”, the prize for the dish that was appreciated most by “Marie”, the kids’ jury, went to “Trio Infernal” from the Anderlecht quarter called “Scheut”.

Watch  video made by "TV Brussel" during the cooking sessions at the Coovi-Elishout school: http://www.brusselnieuws.be/node/77046