Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I cook from scratch every day using local farm and home grown ingredients. It started as a made-to-order chemo cafe for my late husband.
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Who is your culinary inspiration?My father who was a cook in the military and later a chef in California, Texas, and Louisiana.
What would you do with the $25,000?Continue the restoration of my husband's family home on land in an historic district of a small Texas town, owned by the family since 1898. I restored it so he could come here to live his final days and now I have become a part of the community. Our daughter also just completed the Master Gardener program to produce more native plants and help grow food for us and the neighbors.
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