Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Tabitha Madison-Carmean

$25,000 would help my family so much. Also, bragging rights 🤣

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What is your signature dish?

Chicken Spinach Enchiladas. Chicken breast diced and mixed with cream cheese and spinach, wrapped in corn tortillas and baked in green chili sauce. I learned this at the Tongue Point Job Corps Center Culinary Arts program. Been a favorite for 20 years

Who is your culinary inspiration?

Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown and Anne Burrell. Also my boss, Mirith Sinn. She has truely taken me under her wing and shown me her recipes and cooking methods. Anthony's world view, Alton's curiosity and Anne's spicy adventure influence me, both in culinary and as a person

What would you do with the $25,000?

Help my family gain better self sufficiency, help my mother as she is a recent widow. Help my youngest child with his dreams of an art career... Update to this. My daughter's fiance was in a terrible wreck and is in Harborview with a broken back. Help them with bills.

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