Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Because I always had a passion for cooking since I was a little girl..I love to see smiles on People's faces when they eat my food
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Receive Text UpdatesMy signature dish is meatloaf, baked macaroni and cheese and cabbage and kale greens with honey cornbread
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mother and my eight beautiful grown kids are my inspiration
What would you do with the $25,000?I would buy me a beautiful ranch home,a vehicle for transportation and I would donate to family and women shelters for the homeless
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