What an awesome competition against the best of the best chefs around the world. I was super excited to have come in with a perfect score of a 100 in first place in the first round and ended up placing 3rd place with less than a point difference from the first round. Every year I push myself harder to see if I can out do the previous year. This is my favorite sport yes, I said lol
This photo is the top ten winners in the seafood category.

24 large shells

3oz. Bella Sun Luci Sun-dried halves

15oz. Ricotta cheese whole milk

1 large egg

½ cup Parmesan & Romano cheese

¾ cup artichoke hearts drained and chopped small

1 ½ cup cooked chicken breast chopped small

2 cups Italian Style finely shredded cheese

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

¼ teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

1 lemon zest and juice

20 oz.  Alfredo sauce

1 tablespoon fresh dill chopped

Cook shells according to the package.  Place sun-dried tomatoes in a small bowl and cover with 1 cup of boiling water let sit 5 minutes and drain.

In a large mixing bowl add the next 10 ingredients and the zest of the lemon.  Take half of the sundried tomatoes and chopped them fine and add to the bowl with the rest of the filing.  Mix well until all well incorporated. 

Roughly chopped the remaining sun-dried tomatoes and add to a small food processor.    Add the juice of the lemon and process until it looks like a sauce, it will be a bit lumpy.  To a medium size bowl add the Alfredo sauce and mix in the sun-dried tomatoes sauce.   

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.  Spray a large casserole with non-stick olive oil cooking spray.

Add half of the lemony sun-dried tomato Alfredo sauce at the bottom of the casserole. Fill each shell with the filling until they are well stuffed and add to the casserole.  Take the remaining sauce and scatter it over the shells some small part of the shells will not have sauce.  Place the shells in the oven and bake 35 minutes.  Let sit 5 to 7 minutes.  Sprinkle with fresh dill and serve.  Serves  6.   

Come and check it out neat town, Craft beer tasting, Food Trucks, Restaurants, Live Music it’s a lot of fun!  I’ll be judging again this year and I’m going to love every minute of it all the way to the end when we award “The World Food Championships” Golden Ticket to one of the Chef!  Need I say more?? lol Well worth the day out for this awesome event!

www.worldfoodchampionships

Inverness, Fla. – The Taste is a one-day food, beverage and art festival that is also an elite qualifier for the World Food Championship (WFC)https://worldfoodchampionships.com/ set for Saturday, April 13, 2019 at the intersection of Pine Avenue and Tompkins Street in downtown Inverness from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with live music by the Superstars Band