Are there any dishes or foods that your mom (or dad) used to make that you associate with certain occasions? This pasta salad is one of those dishes that just screams "mom" and "summer" to me! When I was a kid I didn't necessarily think of my mom as a good cook or a bad cook - just as "the" cook.  I wasn't so advanced in my culinary knowledge that I could critique how she made something. The important thing was what she made and when she made it. Once she had made something that I ... Continue Reading