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4 Tasty Sides For Your Memorial Day Picnic

4 Tasty Sides For Your Memorial Day Picnic

This year, forget the plain old baked beans, coleslaw, and chips and dip. THESE are the crowd-pleasers you'll want for your Memorial Day barbeque, picnic or gathering. (Hint: They might turn into the ones you'll use all summer long.) All 4 recipes - plus several hundred more - can be found in Lehman's Diamond Jubilee Cookbook. Happy Memorial Day!

Chilled Spring Pea Salad

Sue Franklin

Very easy – just thaw frozen peas, combine ingredients, chill and enjoy.

Chilled Spring Pea Salad

Ingredients

  • 1–16 oz. pkg. frozen baby peas, thawed

  • 1/2 c. diced celery

  • 1/2 c. diced red onion

  • 2 oz. Hormel bacon pieces

  • 1–8 oz. sour cream

  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a large serving bowl and stir gently to combine. Chill for about 1 hour before serving.
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Sarah Nussbaum is an Ohio-based writer, wife, mom of four children, and aspiring homesteader. She enjoys singing, baking, gardening, home preserving and projects around her family’s 180-year-old farmhouse.

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