Month: June 2023

It’s another home run for the College World Series with tasty offerings by Chef Alec Woockman of Levy Foods!

Here’s the  College World Series Food Tasting 2023 at Charles Schwab Field Omaha line up:

The Home Plate-Meatball Slider was a favorite of many in the room. It comes with four sliders, with fried ravioli, marinara, mozzarella, pesto, garlic fries with a generous dusting of Parmesan cheese. Each slider has one ridiculously large fluffy meatball, somehow momentarily contained by a bun. If you are not careful, you will … drop the…ball.

The Bada Bing Burger has the burger, of course it’s from Omaha Steaks, and is topped with fried mozzarella sticks, lettuce, pesto aioli, banana peppers and marinara sauce on a brioche bun. Bada Bing Bada Boom Bada Yum.

Just as the pun in the name says, these Out of the Pork Fries were out-of-the-park good. This was one of my favorites. Fries with queso blanco, cowboy-candied jalapenos, amazing smoked barbecue pork with a perfect condiment complement of sweet barbecue sauce.

The Grilled Reuben Sausages were another of my favorite samples to try. A tasty sausage from local store, Stoysich, a Swiss cheese melted into thousand island dressing for the Reuben and some sauerkraut that doesn’t over power the sausage in a marbled bun makes this one another hit.

The Home Plate- BBQ Platter has a “triple” meaty offering including rib tips packed with flavor beyond its size, smoked chicken and sliced brisket with a special barbecue sauce. Accompanying them are sweet cornbread, baked beans, coleslaw and tater tots.

The Midwest Taco Salad has the usual favorites with meat, black beans, pepper and finally shredded cheese. The twist, maybe just for me, was the colorful-crispy ribbons of tortillas on top of the salad.

The Chicken Tepanyaki Noodle Salad was a surprise dish with its succulent chicken, snow peas, julienne carrots and noodles dusted with a liberal amount of sesame seeds.

Next up something special from a shop in Bellevue,Nebraska. It was Chef Alec’s favorite and also mine.

Scorcher Sticks are fried mozarrella sticks with a kick. The kick comes from Nebraska’s own Volcanic Peppers store in Bellevue.  While, I did not find them hot, many people will. I did find then super tasty and will be sure to grab some at the game.

When you get to the game, let us know which were your favorites and why!