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Real Name:

Sharla Hulsey

Location:

Sac City, Iowa

Best meal I ever ate:

There are so many to choose from...Sunday dinners at my dad's cafeteria, holidays at Grandma's, birthday dinners where the birthday girl or boy got to choose the menu, even the big fund-raising dinner my high school youth group threw a few weeks back.

My current drink of choice:

Pernod.

I really wish I could:

make a cake--I don't know what the problem is, but I can't make a decent cake to save my life, even from a mix! I don't know if it's operator error or if my oven temperature isn't accurate, or something else.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

My aunt Edna's escalloped asparagus

My favorite comfort food:

chicken & dumplings, served on top of mashed potatoes

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Murphy's Steak House, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; RingSide, Portland, Oregon; Steamers, Portland, Oregon; The Black Rabbit at McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, Oregon; Venesian Inn, Tontitown, Arkansas

My most tattered cookbooks:

Nikki & David Goldbeck's American Wholefoods Cuisine; Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything: The Basics; and the book of family favorites my mom put together for me 20 years ago