Pork Belly Peanut Butter Dulce de Leche won something

Last year around this time I entered a small bite contest for an appetizer to be featured in a tasting menu put on by Joe DeSalazar from Foodie NYC. I entered a Crawfish Grits Croquette with Creole Mustard Foam and green onion "dust". I didn’t win. This year he had the same contest but not for small bites. I entered my Pork Belly PBDDL that I made from the excellent Peanut Butter Dulce de Leche from Blake of BlakeMakes.com. I did clear it with Joe that I could submit a previously blogged about dish beforehand.

Well guess what….I won. You can see the write up here FoodieNYC. I was so excited that I won although I could not claim the prize – a seat at one of Joe’s upcoming tasting menu dinners since I will not be in NYC anytime soon.

I did however find a person that I thought would thoroughly enjoy it – Lisa from HomesickTexan. She happily agreed to take the invite off my hands.

If you want to find out more about PBDDL go visit Blake Makes, you won’t be disappointed. Today is is his birthday and he has some exciting news as well.

I also have to credit Joe with having such great taste to finally pick me as a winner….j/k but in all seriousness he did introduce me to one of my most listened to albums of the past year : The National’s Boxer……people go check out this album.

Alright that is all for now, I have to go finish dinner and continue to work on my bubble gum recipes, yes you read that right