Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I have a great love of cooking, and I am on a mission to put Native American cuisine on the map and redefine true American cuisine
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Receive Text UpdatesI would have to say my signature dish should be my three sister stuffed poblano. It’s a roasted poblano stuffed with the three sisters, which are squash Anasazi beans and corn set on top of a bed of New Mexico red chili and a avocado cream
Who is your culinary inspiration?My greatest culinary inspiration is my mother who introduced me to different kinds of world cuisine and our indigenous food ways
What would you do with the $25,000?If I were to win the prize money I would purchase a food truck and travel a visit other tribes in the United States Canada and Mexico to share and learn other tribal food ways and trade and collect Heirloom seeds that other tribe's preserved and handed down for generations.
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