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Porkbellytaco
The teams of Billy Ngo of Kru/Davin Vculek of Krush Burger and Pedro Depina of Ettore's/Andrew “Drewski” Blaskovich of Drewski's Hot Rod & Kitchen were the big winners in Saturday's cooking competition that paired one brick and mortar chef with one of their mobile food counterparts.

The five teams were given two ingredients that they were required to cook with -- a whole pig and honey, and were asked to prepare a savory dish and a sweet dish. The winners were judged by Mulvaney's B&L owner Patrick Mulvaney, FOX 40's Bethany Crouch and the Sac Bee's Chris Macias.

The team of Ngo and Vculek took the honors in the savory division with a pork belly taco (picture above, courtesy of the SactoMoFo Facebook page.) Depina and Blaskovich took the prize for the best sweet dish wih "The Last Twinkie - a honey twinkie with a bacon-bourbon marscapone filling.

Twinkie
The event was organized by SactoMofo. See pictures of all the dishes at the blog My Kitchen Kreations to You (including the one above).

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