Two young Winnfield chefs recently won top honors at the Louisiana 4-H University’s Next Healthy Food Star competition in Baton Rouge with their “Crawfish Enchiladas,” earning the opportunity to take part in The Great American Seafood Cookoff (4-H Edition) held in Morial Convention Center in New Orleans August 2-3.

The dish highlighted two of Louisiana’s top commodities, crawfish and sweet potatoes, represented by the crawfish filling and sweet potato tortilla. That competition was limited to 4-H Youth in grades 9 through 12.  Each state determined its qualifiers.

Local residents will have the chance not only to see these winners, Ella Higginbotham and Catherine Page, in person but also taste the key component of their award-winning dish, a soup made from the crawfish filling, during a special meet & eat event at Winnfield’s Pea Patch Gallery on Thursday, August 21, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The recipe was developed by Pat Thurmon and appears in the cookbook “Thyme with Friends,” a collaboration by Thurmon, Rae McManus and Sharon Brewton. On sale at the Peapatch, the cookbook is a fundraiser towards costs of a kidney transplant for McManus.  “Come meet the girls and enjoy some of their prize-winning dish,” invites Mrs. Thurmon.