Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m a home cook fascinated about bringing flavors of my native country Brazil into my family’s daily life. Cooking is my way of expressing
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Seafood coconut stew with white rice, in Brazil this dish is called Moqueca de Peixe. Authentic flavors with subtle hint of coconut milk served over garlic white rice.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother Iva, she was an excellent cook and sustained herself and family cooking for several families in a small town. During my summer vacations I would stay at her house and help out. She would start cooking around 6 in the morning, people would line up around 11 bringing their aluminum metal to go oans.
What would you do with the $25,000?Start my new personal chef career in small town located in the Madison Valley, Montana.
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