Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
The $25k would help me start a nonprofit in my son's name for a treatment facility for the WHOLE FAMILY
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Receive Text UpdatesMy vegetable soup it's never the same twice it's a "everything but the kitchen sink" dish
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mom she managed to feed us well on a limited income. I never knew we were poor until I was an adult
What would you do with the $25,000?Open a family treatment facility in my deceased son's name it's a family disease so treat the whole family not just mom or dad
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