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

Quarter-Finalist

Vicki Holliday

I love cooking and making sourdough bread. I’m adventurous and happy to try new ingredients and ways of cooking. A challenge is exciting.

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

Ingredients inspire me especially ones I’m not familiar with. I’m also inspired seeing other chefs cooking and reading recipes. I love eating many cuisines and love trying new foods. I’ll often come home and try to riff off or create a dish similar to one I ate out. I love going to a farmers market and being inspired to cook by what I see available.

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

I can’t pin down just one dish. Cauliflower cheese that my daughter loves. Lamb do piazza which is a family fave. Bi bim bap, mapo dofu, and stuffed lotus root are also faves. Plus l love a medium rare rack of lamb. Carbonara for a comfort dinner. Plus making sourdough anything, discard is so much fun to use; pasta noodles, cinnamon buns, pancakes etc. A roast chicken and veg comfort dinner. Wild salmon pan seared is another fave. Seafood stew is another fave.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I’m not sure yet.

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