Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I feel that God has giving me a talent for cooking and I like to use it I've been doing it since I was like 14 years old.
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Receive Text UpdatesLasagna, I really love Italian food so I developed my own recipes for my Italian cooking dishes. I raised nine daughters and to this day when I cook lasagna two or more coming to the house that day 😫
Who is your culinary inspiration?I grew up watching The galloping gourmet with my mother. So I guess I would say that he was the one who actually got me wanting to do the cooking I love to watch him. And one of my personal jokes today is I think I can take Bobby Flay I would love to give it a shot.
What would you do with the $25,000?My wife and I have been married for 32 years and we've never had a honeymoon we raised nine daughters and we raised three granddaughters and now we're raising one grandson and one granddaughter. I plan on retiring in about a year maybe two and I would just love for me and my wife to just go try what are the United States in an RV, then again my wife would love to buy a food truck.
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