HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Is there anyone like me who struggles to know what sides to have for dinner? This can be a truly daunting task to come up with 7 days a week 365 days a year! For these next few weeks, I am on the hunt for easy crowd-pleasing side dishes. I got out my cookbook and looked up 4 salad recipes I have to go with an entrée. And if you do not have a recipe binder this is a must to keep all your favorite recipes in. 

I have had these recipes for a long time so I’m not sure where they originally came from.

Salad #1

Apple pecan salad

Lettuce blend of iceberg, spinach and arugula  chopped

2 Chopped apples of your choice

 ½  Cup Dried cranberries or how many you like. I tend to like a lot.

½ Cup Honey roasted pecans

Feta or blue cheese either will work

Can add grilled, fried, or blackened chicken to make this an easy entrée

Salad #2

5 Cup Salad (my kids loved this when they were little)

1 Cup mini marshmallows

1 Cup drained pineapple

1 Cup coconut

1 Cup sour cream

1 Cup mandarin oranges

Mix together and refrigerate 6 or more hours

Salad #3

Cucumber tomato salad

1 large tomato slice thin and each sliced in half

1 yellow onion sliced in thin strips

1 large cucumber sliced thin

Salt and pepper to taste

Drizzled with either olive oil and vinegar or a vinaigrette dressing

Salad #4

Broccoli Raisin Salad (This recipe came from my Lazarus cookbook)

1 Cup Mayonnaise

½ Cup sugar

1 tbsp. vinegar

2 bunches of fresh broccoli cut into floret

½ pound bacon fried and chopped

1 small onion diced small

7 ½ 0z box raisins

Dressing:

Mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar mixed.

Salad:

Combine the remaining ingredients then pour on the dressing.

Chill before serving.

May God bless each of you this Mother’s Day and this week on your journey to a peaceful haven.

 “Iron sharpens Iron so and one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

If anyone has a good side dish recipe, please share it below.