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

Quarter-Finalist

Holly Hoehne

Spending time in the kitchen cooking provides me sheer happiness. But modifying recipes and really making them my own is pure creative joy.

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

My husband is my biggest inspiration in my kitchen! We cook and create & compete together in the kitchen we remodeled and designed with food prep and cooking primarily in our minds. I am also a big Food Network fan and hugely get inspiration from DELICIOUS recipes I see being cooked on shows and competitions. Food is fun, flirty and sexy and I dig being able to put my own spin on a dish with varying ingredients and spices.

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

Lasagna in my go-to favorite dish to make because I am able to change up the type of sauce, pasta & ingredients I'm going to prepare and use for this dish. I find lasagna to be a dish that always tastes incredible, either with a red meat sauce or a vegetable based white sauce and either with lasagna, zucchini noodles or low-carb tortillas. I can jazz up my lasagna with great Italian spices or stick to freshly grated cheeses to make surprisingly delicious and ungcios.

What would you do with the $25,000?

$25,000 would first be used to buy a VERY nice set of cookware. Second, we're remodeling the basement of our farmhouse and plan to make game room with pool, ping pong tables and wet bar with a snack prep area. Finally, we never went on a honeymoon and have been busy working on our house, taking care of family members, and working. (My husband is a police officer & I'm a registered nurse). I would love to take my husband on a very well-deserved vacation.

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