Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I am a mostly self taught home cook, and would love to share my almost intuitive cooking and baking
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Receive Text UpdatesIt would have to be my mom's baked pasta or my baked cheesecake
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mom
What would you do with the $25,000?Remodel my house and go back to school
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