Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to eat delicious, decent food, cooked right. I have been in restaurants since I was 14. I have been in different types of restaurants
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Receive Text UpdatesI love Pad Thai and most Asian dishes, but just cannot make them-without adding other ingredients. As for my dishes...scrap the toppings off a slice off pizza into an omlette. A little curry into Kraft Diiner, chip crumbs into spaghetti or home fries.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mother and some chefs that I have worked with.
What would you do with the $25,000?Pay some bills, fix my car, give some to my children in a trust fund. And probably open a pizza parlor. I have seen so many pizza joints, quick turnover- with the right ma a
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