Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I challenge myself daily to be better and create an amazing experience through amazing local and fresh ingredients.
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Receive Text Updatesmy smoked then fried crispy pork shank with fall spiced butternut squash puree, crispy bacon and walnut brussel sprouts. then finished with a smoked apple butter. My signature seafood dish is my pan seared red snapper with crab fat rissoto and smoked tomato shellfish broth.
Who is your culinary inspiration?all the great chefs that I have worked with other the years that taught me how to work and maximize my time management in the kitchen. I learned from the school of hard knocks. I started out as a dishwasher when I was 18 at the grand marlin on pensacola beach and have worked my way up to sous chef at one of the best fine dining restaraunts in pensacola.
What would you do with the $25,000?I would start up my catering company and put a down payment on a house for my beautiful family and my dogs.
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