Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I’m always looking for new things to cook. I walk around the grocery store and light bulbs go off in my head and I wonder how it would taste
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Receive Text UpdatesSpicy vodka shrimp or spaghetti and meatballs. But also I bake sourdough bread and my special flavor is a sun-dried tomato, jalapeno, Parmesan cheese loaf. Then taking that loaf and making a chicken sandwich or a meatball sandwich. Or just making fun designs on the loaves.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mom
What would you do with the $25,000?Get a nice bread oven that can bake over 10 loaves in 1 round and also supplies, and maybe rent a space to do it in or build it somewhere.
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