Day 112: Broccoli Salad with Bacon, Raisins & Cheddar Cheese ♥
A Favorite Summer Recipe
My lighter and almost virtuous version of the broccoli salad that shows up at church potlucks and family gatherings all summer long, a real crowd favorite. ~recipe & photo updated 2010~ 2005: How I missed this favorite salad from so many years of church potlucks, who knows! But I've got it now! When friends of my parents brought a bowl of this broccoli and bacon salad along for supper last month, I couldn't get enough – and was I ever glad they were going on vacation and thus wanted to leave the leftovers behind. I was assured that there'd be recipes in every church cookbook. Turns out, there were two recipes, one from my own sister! right there in the family cookbook we published three years ago. 2010 Update: My sister's broccoli salad recipe already used far less mayonnaise than most broccoli salads, especially those from the grocery store which are thick-thick-thick with gloppy mayonnaise. But I've lightened it further still by using a favorite new technique