Competition

Kevin, this last Saturday, competed in the Spring Home & Garden black box competition. He has been working really hard on this to do well at it. (even though he gets nothing out of it other than experience)

Saturday rolls around and he is out the door early, having to go to school and prep. They competed at around 3pm. Now in black box competitions they receive secret ingredients that they have to use in all of their dishes, they had no idea what they were before hand. For this one they had to use peanut butter, figs, and cream cheese. Yummy right? If I was given those I would have no idea what to do with them.

So Kevin got to work doing what he does best, cooking! After making all of the stuff within a time limit, their food was judged. And much to Kevin's surprise.... THEY WON!!! Kevin and Amanda won the black box competition!! HE was so happy and surprised. His menu was:

appetizer- tomato salad with cream cheese balsamic vinaigrette and an apple fig salad with peanut butter sauce

main dish- sweet potato peanut butter pasta, in a cream cheese shallot sauce; pork scallop; sauteed Brussel sprouts, figs, and pecans

Dessert- Apple fritter; Carmel fig sauce, peanut butter chocolate sauce, and an orange cream cheese frosting napoleon (sort of like an Oreo)


The judges really like his fresh pasta that he made on the spot. He has another competition coming up on the 26th of March for a state competition! We are hoping he does well.