Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Diversity. I don't take pic of food anymore. No fam to send them to, but I create, not copy.
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Receive Text UpdatesButtered chicken with jasmine rice, with green beans and onions, and sweet, buttery cornbread. Desert: covered sweet potato mush with french vanilla ice cream, topped with homemade caramel.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My Nana (RIP). When I was a child, I'd sit at the end of a green formica counter as she cooked. I sing verses out of her hymn book and watch her cook and bake.
What would you do with the $25,000?I'd donate $2500 to Temple University and Wayne State University's English departments. The rest, I'd use as a downpayment on my own tiny house.
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