Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

Quarter-Finalist

Angela Ryan

My happy place is preparing food that puts smiles on peoples faces . I love to take a recipe & make it my own. Food is love.

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

I have fond memories of licking spoons & watching my grandmother cook & bake foods as a little child. She could turn a few simple ingredients into something so delicious & spectacular before your eyes. She ran a small boarding house to make ends meet.My grandfather passed away when I was only six months old so Nan had to be creative to make an income.

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

Gosh I really don’t have a favourite dish to make I love a challenge to make a new dish . My adult children love a dish I’ve tweaked over the years made with a salmon filet . I marinate it in a mixture of maple syrup ( I now use honey because we have our own honey bees🫢🥰) and I make a mixture of Cajun spices & I always use Mount Gay extra old Rum from Barbados. They all love it & most of them don’t like fish 🤣,

What would you do with the $25,000?

Well I really don’t know. Perhaps put it towards a trip to Italy with my husband .

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