Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
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Receive Text UpdatesI would say my signature dish is either mushroom parm risotto or pernil.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My beautiful spouse Katianis Rodriguez, my 7-year-old Amelia, and my 7-month-old Elijah. I make all of my sons' food from scratch. My daughter gets fresh homemade juices, and my wife can ask me for anything, and if I don' know how to make it ill figure it out and make for her. During COVID I was an ER nurse working in one of the busiest ER in the country and would come home constantly exhausted. Slowly, I discovered a passion for cooking and day after day week after week, looked up more techni
What would you do with the $25,000?Buy an engagement ring for my spouse and take my family on an amazing vacation
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