Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Because when I get down to it I can really cook up a homemade cooked meal. I use oxygen because I have severe copd.
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Receive Text UpdatesMashed potatoes, cube steak cooked with some buttered green beans. Mmmm. Sounds delicious too me so far.
Who is your culinary inspiration?Gordon Ramsey
What would you do with the $25,000?Get my daughter and granddaughter and my mother in law and my boyfriend and go on a vacation someplace close. Spend the week or weekend together. At a log house. What fun.
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