Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Infamous Wedding Broccoli Salad

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“If there are going to be 289 people and they eat 1/2 cup of broccoli salad each then we need to make……”

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“How many people and HOW much broccoli salad?!”

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”You’ve got to be kidding me!”

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Grandma thinks she has the best part of the salad…

she definitely does!

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Mmm, mmm! Grandma’s bacon is delicious!!

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Before the freely flowing tears, from overwhelming fears of leftovers.

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Broccoli chopping bee.

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Faithful little helper with her little plastic knife.

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I’ve never seen so much broccoli in my WHOLE entire life!”

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Getting ready to mix the goods.

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“Oh, here’s some more I found.”

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”MORE?????”

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“Juicy, juicy!”

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I really don’t want my fingers in that stuff…” ”I’ll hold the baby!”

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“That was an easy escape.”

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“Help, guys! I think I’m going to need some help trucking this stuff to the wedding!”

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“Why do they need a truck just to haul a broccoli salad?”

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“It’s a big salad, folks, a HUGE salad!”

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“I came around the corner of the corn field and there it was! It was a huge dump truck with broccoli salad heaped in it and there was more in the cab!”

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It’s not going to get stuck, is it?

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Mary, go ask Emily where she wants all the broccoli!

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“I can’t think about broccoli salad now, I’m about to get married!”

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“I take you, James…”

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“Yep, I knew you would.”

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“Praise God! Let’s eat.”

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BROCCOLI SALAD

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“Who threw that broccoli at me?”

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“Bull's-eye!”

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“Yeah, that broccoli salad really hit the spot!”

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”I’ve had enough. Lock the car doors, we don’t want any leftovers.”

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“Now what do we do with the LEFTOVERS? We’ve eaten so much we’re turning GREEN!”

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“I have a wonderful idea!”

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“Oink, that stuff was SO good! Can we have the recipe?”

Brockletts Broccoli Salad

(Family Size)

6 cups Broccoli chopped very small

1 small sweet onion

~~Mix together~~

1 cup mayonnaise

1/4 cup sugar

1 T. vinegar

~~Stir together and mix in veggies. Refrigerate over night.~~

1/2 pkg. bacon, crumbled

1/2 cup mozzarella cheese,cubed

1 cup raisins

~~Mix before serving~~

Created with lots of hard work by Hillary B., Abby D., and Becky D.

Thank you to Thabeh, Amadu, Mom, and Ben for contributing thoughts and ideas.

Many thanks to Arianna Pollock for her wonderful photography! Adama also took a few of the shots.

6 comments:

juli r said...

HAHA Abby that was HILARIOUS!!!! Great post! See you Sat.!

Anonymous said...

Thank you - we loved the broccoli salad!

The Tiede's

4jesuschristalone@gmail.com said...

HEEHEEHEE!!!! That was SO funny Abby (and all who contributed)!!!! I think the salad was good....do I remember what the food tasted like that day? ;)

Love Ya!
HJT

Amy said...

LOVE it, love it! Mmmm broccoli salad never made such a hit!:)

The Brockett Bunch said...

Hey,that was lots of fun to do together- we should do that more often! =)
Yes, the Broccoli salad was good for the first two days but after that I really and truely did get sick of eating it. Thank the Lord it's all gone now!!!!!!!!! oink, oink =)
All the expressions on everyones faces fits soooo well, I loved
Em's face although I don't recognize it.
Nice post!
Hillary

Pollock Family said...

Hilarious!! Perfect captions. Makes us miss you crazy northerners even more.

Thanks for the laugh. It's good for the soul :)

Love y'all like Hot Pocketts in AC ;)