Jacksonville's Cooper's Hawk winery in
restaurants there over the st. Johns
Town Center teaming up with a very
special Food Network Star chef Emily
Ellen is best known as the retro rad
chef appearing on Food Network Star
Cupcake Wars and as the winner of that's
like a pirate
I think 1960s cutthroat yeah exactly
which we were you know very refined I
understand that throat kitchen gals we
just you know killed us with our good
looks and great cooking and not to
ignore the other Emily because I
certainly wouldn't do that but she is
teaming up with Master Sommelier wines
that's really your name yours the night
of to Emily's I never bouquet I linger
on the palate actually you know that
there is there is a trick to tea you
know teaming good wine with good food so
where do we start with the food I guess
yes absolutely I'm just say Emily and
neither one will pick up about a
three-course dinner pairing Cooper's
Park wines coming up in just a little
bit so what do we have here well this
evening I'm teaching everyone at
Cooper's hawk down the road and
Jacksonville to make all of these dishes
so you know tapping into our Florida
roots because I live actually down the
road from you guys and yeah I'm in based
in Orlando and there's always this
preconception that you know key lime in
Central Florida no no no we have the
oranges we have the oranges so I'm
teaching everyone how to make orange
marmalade and then I'm whisking it
together into an orange vinaigrette and
making this gorgeous farmer salad it's
farmer Jack down the road he got it he
got us all this great proteus like you
have some corn on the cob there do you
talk about house mm-hmm and marinated
feta
I have peaches they're so sweet and in
the stores right now and these gorgeous
cherries just toss it all up and then
what I think is gonna be really fun I
and I have all these recipes on my
website as well so if you want to join
along and make these ricotta gnocchi
that's right it's not
with our gulf shrimp and a pea pesto but
it's not my portrait before we going
let's see which wines would go good
Cooper's hawk we make all of our own
wines as well and the wines that we've
accompanied with these dishes was the
first one this is my favorite season for
wine really beautiful fresh summery
flavors and so we're doing this with a
Riesling which is just slightly sweet
which really echoes nicely with all of
the sweetness and the peaches and
cherries in the corn that's for the
salad exactly exactly and then yoki we
have what's in our glass right here this
is our luxe Pinot Noir this Pinot later
it is indeed so great summery wine as
well nice bright fresh flavors really
looks great with the richness of that
gnocchi I love this one does yeah it's
excellent by the way is it more fun to
you know consume it from a wine bong
rather than but you're welcome to put
your face right under that everyone
that's what commercial break gets more
interesting what else do we well being
the cupcake warrior that I am I'm tapped
because Holly lives down there two
cupcakes by Holly I don't know if you
yeah we we did cuts no we did Cupcake
Wars together so sweets by Holly Hollis
Wilder and I did the cupcake wars
episode together and we kicked some
cupcakes nice yes a fan favorite episode
we well so I'm actually threading those
orange flavors through the meal and I'm
reading
that's a glamorous chef term and I'm
taking that orange marmalade and I'm
making a mile-high orange meringue pie
so I'm also teaching everyone how to do
a meringue pie and we are pairing that
with almond sparkling wine so kind of a
nice yes it's a nutty base it's a wine
it's a great based wine sparkling wine
and then there's a little bit of almond
essence in it so you get this really
beautiful kind of nutty flavor that
really picks up some those biscuity
notes and the crust it's just with the
almond for all of you Jax and billions
who like to imbibe with us we are
kicking it up a notch
and we are taking our almond sparkler
and we are just putting a pinch of
orange bitters and a little bit of
orange rind in it and it just
oh what a blend brings it yeah we
covered we have one more dish right oh
well we're you know we kick off these
wine events with appetizers that chefs
like I get to create with the chefs in
the Cooper Hawks team and we created a
focaccia we're also doing this family
show what's your language Oh wine oh
you're a naughty one oh I didn't do my
little hi jokes oh and then we're doing
some great little appetizers I made a
gazpacho and then we have this shrimp
taquito dish and all kinds of great
things and we are taking Cooper's hawks
lemoncello they also make lemoncello and
oh my goodness I'm doing a basil
sparkler with it and that is a very
simple thing that we can all do here
especially as this gets warm for the
warmer I should say for the summertime
you get a big pitcher and you pour a
bottle that lemoncello in you do maybe a
little bourbon if you're feeling frisky
soda water and then jam some of these
berry jams mix it up Oh a little basil
so and since this is uh fruit lemon
based you get one of your basic by a
food group so you get strong that's so
true you all your vitamin C right there
in a bottle all right so tell us about
the big Cooper's Hawk event tonight and
and can I still get in unfortunately
can't you can't it's all sold out just
me yes you know it's actually only for
our members and we do events like this
all around the country at our
restaurants we have 32 restaurants and
we like to work with fabulous friends
like Emily to to do these friends of
Cooper's offices so there might be one
in the future there are a lot in the
future but the really neat thing is you
can always go to a Cooper's Hawk winery
and have a tasting and taste all these
wines that we've we've been talking
about and maybe some of these dishes as
well will get on the menu that's um not
invited tonight I'm just taking the
unopened bottles
well we share for you here in the st.
John's town center orc
join us thanks 5 year