Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
Cause I luv to see people smile after I have fed them.
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Receive Text UpdatesI don't have a favorite dish. When I cook it's wat my kids want. Either it's pizza or my mother's meatloaf. My mother's Shepard pie. Or my kids favorite homemade Mac and cheese
Who is your culinary inspiration?My mother. She was the best.
What would you do with the $25,000?My kids and my grandchildren. Or take my wife somewhere special cause she is sick.
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