Louisiana Food Prize - Session 1 | Dinner 1 | The Life of a Fabulous Nobody

A friend tagged me in a post from The Shreveport Times about a contest asking to "Show Us Your Food Porn". I am ALWAYS taking photos of my food, I mean seriously, how more perfect can this contest be for me? The top 3 photos with the most votes would be the proud winners to 2 tickets to attend this year's Louisiana Food Prize. Guess what...I won! I was one of the lucky 3! Can you say excited?!?! Here's what happened...[Keep Reading...]

I attended the first of 10 private dinners and embarked on the challenge of voting for the best chef after attending at least 3 dinners. At each dinner the guests are asked to rate the chef on Taste & Flavor, Creativity & Innovation and Showmanship & Presentation. Here's a peek at last night's menu by Chef Blake Jackson, his inspiration...his playlist and it was musically delicious!!

The place settings were cute and classy, fresh flowers and menus.

For starters we had homemade Italian bread topped with triple cream goat Brie adorned with edible flowers. I guess Chef Blake not only wanted us to smell the roses he wanted us to taste them too!


Next up - Sage Agnolotti Ravioli filled with pink pepercorn and blackberry ricotta, served with confit cimini mush rooms & drippings and pickled Brussels sprouts.

Here we have crab fat fried shallot rice under a Shiro Miso scallop, drizzled with Soki Crema Fresca and topped with Alaskan Salmon Roe with a side of Thai cucumber relish.

What time is it? Palate cleansing time!! This yummy and tart Lemon Ginger Sorbetto and Crystal Basil got out palates all clean and ready to recieve the main course.

I never order medium anything, always well done, not burnt, but done which usually ends up burnt anyway. Tonight I was served what I believe to be medium well Tandoori Lamb chops garnished with Alabama white sauce, fennel slaw and Baingan Bharta featuring smoked eggplant and it was PERFECT, pink and all!!!