Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I like cooking 🧑🍳 for my family my mom 🧑 and grandma 👵 taught me how to cook 🧑🍳 whenever I was a pre-teen I was there foods tester!
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Receive Text UpdatesLasagna and Beefaroni and turkey salad on onions rolls oven fried chicken my family loves my mom famous punch which I makes also with my meal I cook some good turnips green with old ham meat with pigtails too I have a lot of recipes my mom and grandma died and left in my heart I always cook with tender loving care if ya’ll pick me I promise I’ll do my very best to put a smile on your face and your stomach will be happy also!
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mom (Margaret Hooks Sellars) and my Nanny which is my grandmother (Margaret Susan Hooks) I thank (God) for the both of them everyday I miss them soooo much their my inspiration forever sending love and kisses to (Heaven) to my sweet angels up above!
What would you do with the $25,000?I need to pay bills definitely but I wanna take my family on a much needed vacation and do something special for my daughter who will be a Senior in August whenever school gets back in she’s my heart my only child I had her whenever I turned 41 years old and I’ll be 58 Lord willing on May 22nd which is next Friday I’m a single mom so $25,000 would do me good right about now because my daughter will need a lot this year and next year for school before she graduates next May so p
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