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[SloopJohnB]

@Irish1210  🍞🏖⛵🌊🏄🎵🎶💙

[RetRN]

Coleslaw, chocolate caramel pie, and pickles.  

[vermint]

Just DH & me. We're having barbecue sandwiches, pasta salad, a Jello salad made of cream cheese, pineapple & Lime Jello that's a DH's family tradition (it really is good, lol!). I'm making banana pudding for dessert.

[deepwaterdotter]

I make this recipe for "Hawaiian Macaroni Salad" that I saved from an old issue of Cook's Illustrated:

2 cups whole milk

2 cups mayonnaise

1 tbsp brown sugar

2 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp salt

1 lb elbow macaroni

1/2 cup cider vinegar

4 green onions, sliced thin

1 carrot, peeled and grated

1 rib celery, chopped

Whisk milk, mayonnaise, brown sugar, pepper, and salt in bowl.  Save 1 cup of dressing aside in refrigerator.

Cook pasta until very soft, about 15 minutes.  Drain and pour into big bowl.  Stir in vinegar until absorbed.  Let cool for 10 minutes.

Stir dressing left in bowl into big bowl of pasta.  Stir in onions, carrot, and celery.  Cover and chill for an hour.  Stir in reserved dressing from refrigerator before serving. 

[jubilant]

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@Eileen in Virginia wrote:

Pickled beets and eggs. This is an old family favorite, but there are so many folks who've never heard of it. You just put all the ingredients together in a big jar the night before and leave it in the fridge overnight. The next morning you've got the prettiest magenta eggs in a nice sweet and sour brine. I buy hard boiled eggs and canned sliced beets (plain, not pickled) at the supermarket. The hardest part is slicing the onions. Easy peasy! 

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@Eileen in Virginia   I love pickled beets and eggs. I don't eat the beets...just the eggs.

 I hadn't heard of putting onions in them. Mine is my grandmother's recipe made with the beet juice, vinegar, sugar, whole cloves, and cinnamon stick heated to a boil until sugar is disolved then poured over eggs.  They are usually ready to eat by the next morning. I love to eat them with toast and dip the toast into a little beet juice on my plate.  YUM!