Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I'm a wonderful cook always looking for fun in the kitchen!! I would love to earn money to be able to go to see my Grandson and cook for him
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Receive Text UpdatesLemon Picata with mushrooms, a weg salad. Its not your every day throw it together and open some sauce. I has lemon, lemon and more lemons. 🍋 For desert blueberry cobbler.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My Mom was my inspiration and of course my very first head chef! Then a chef at Samboes in Anihiem with his fantastic eggs he then asked to have me cook an egg for him at 3 that was the best day ever. I remember this much clearer than Disneyland which we also went that day. Been loving cooking since that day.
What would you do with the $25,000?My grandson Geoff is 19 he has a thing called Fragile X syndrome. He and his Dad went to Sitka AK 2 years ago. To live with Geoffs "brother" and best friend Josiah. Josiah was recently lost at sea and my Grandson has been beside himself since Dec 13th 2025. He needs some of gramma Ginas homecooking and lots of love and hugs.
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