Our Family Food Favorites: Broccoli Salad

Sep 20, 2016

Broccoli Salad

This is a recipe that I have had for a very long time. We still have it on occasion but it used to be a weekly recipe. It is very delicious. I'll have to serve it again soon!

Broccoli Salad

1 head broccoli, cut into bite-size pieces
1 lb. bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 small sweet onion, thinly sliced and chopped
1/2 cup craisins (or raisins)
1 cup sunflower seeds

Dressing:
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

Mix the salad ingredients together in a large bowl. Mix dressing ingredients in a blender (or whisk together in a small bowl). Mix salad and dressing together. Refrigerate until time to serve.

Recipe shared by Robin

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.