Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I love to cook and bake delicious food for my friends and family and I love spending time in the kitchen cooking it's my favorite pass time
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is homemade chilli
Who is your culinary inspiration?My culinary inspiration is my mother
What would you do with the $25,000?I would buy a car so I can travel back and forth to see my kids
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