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Hometown Recipes: Mom’s Potato Salad

By Erin Walgamuth Summer meals will always remind me of my parents. I was raised here in Southern California and we ate outside almost every evening during warm weather. My mom would serve homemade sun tea flavored with lemon from our tree. My dad would be stationed at the grill as my sister and I set the wooden table with ...

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Hometown Recipes: Mango Relish

By Erin Walgamuth I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. There were eleven of us at our house. We sat out by the pool, visited, laughed, were sprayed with water from strategically placed cannon balls and barbequed some great food. I made a mango relish to go with the grilled chicken. Everyone enjoyed it, so I thought you ...

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Hometown Recipes: Vanilla And Cinnamon Rice Pudding

By Erin Walgamuth When I was around 9 years old I became obsessed with making pudding. Chocolate pudding, butterscotch pudding, vanilla pudding, tapioca pudding, rice pudding, now I’m starting to sound like Bubba from Forrest Gump!  I would sit on the kitchen counter top next to the stove and stir my homemade pudding concoctions with my mom’s favorite wooden spoon. ...

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Hometown Recipes: Chambord Plums With Sugar Crisped Almonds

By Erin Walgamuth This has been an extremely busy week for me, wasn’t it just Mother’s Day? We have friends coming to our house for dinner tomorrow night and I definitely don’t have time to prepare for an elaborate meal. So, I have decided that the dessert part of the meal should be very easy. I am going to make ...

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Hometown Recipes: Slow Roasted Amoroso Tomatoes

By Erin Walgamuth You can find these lovely little tomatoes in almost any market. They are larger than a cherry tomato, but smaller than a Roma tomato. Amoroso tomatoes are juicy and sweet. Their color will be dark red and they will be attached to the vine. Typically you will find them in a 16oz plastic container which will give ...

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Hometown Recipes: Lemon Buttercream Frosting with Lemon Zest

By: Erin Walgamuth Just in case you haven’t noticed, I love lemons! Lemon curd, lemon tart, lemon soufflé, let’s just say I haven’t met a lemon anything I didn’t like. I am making a Lemon Cornmeal Cake for Easter Sunday dinner…well, it’s not for dinner, it’s for dessert, and anyway it’s got lemon in it. This is a very simple ...

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Hometown Recipes: Japanese Eggplant And Three Cheese Bake

By: Erin Walgamuth Even though I am not a vegetarian, I do love to cook and eat meatless meals. I think it’s a nice, and might I say healthy, way to change up your week day meals and include some that are animal protein free. Fortunately my family never complains when I make these dishes. Eggplant is one of my ...

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Hometown Recipes: Cranberry, Raspberry, Rosemary Balsamic Reduction

By: Erin Walgamuth Right about now, you are probably thinking, “what the heck kind of a title for a recipe is this?” Well, I’ll tell you, it’s a what-do-I-have-in-the-freezer-that-I-can-make-a-sauce-with, kind of recipe! Talk about improvising, but hey, it was good!   We had left over roasted chicken and I wanted to make a fresh tasting sort of sauce to drizzle ...

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