Mother's Pea Salad

Absolutely delicious!! I took this to a quilting meeting/potluck lunch yesterday, and it was everybody's favorite part of the lunch!! They all want the recipe. I only had a little left over to bring home to DH, but he was might glad i did! He, who doesn't really care much for peas, raved about it! I followed the recipe exactly except that I didn't measure the pinientos. I just used the whole tiny little 2 oz. jar. This is a great dish to take to any gathering. Thank you so much for sharing!

I love pea salad, and this was a delicious example. I used real bacon, and mayonnaise instead of Miracle Whip. Since I'm not a big fan of raw onions, I used a little dried onion instead.

The little pea is such a small, but majestic vegetable, and what a perfect way to use it in this wonderful-bring-back-the-memories salad that just somehow makes everything all-righty with the world. I halved this recipe, even down to the Miracle-Whip, and the combination of the Thousand Island dressing, onion, bacon bits, (I used Baco's - that's all I had) pimentos, and egg is just so.....delish! I added a bit of Tabasco to the Thousand Island dressing, and mixed this in with the salad. Oh so tasty! Thank you so much Jacqueline for posting this more then wonderful treat. Made in the Fall 2008, just because I wanted to :)

I love this dish! I usually make another recipe (almost the same, but instead of the thousand island dressing, it uses sugar). I loved this as much, and was less mess with the dressing instead of sugar. Nice zing, too. I did use more than the two tbs. called far, though... and more peas as well. Can't keep my spoon out of it!

I made this as part of my christmas dinner. I remember my mother made it from time to time and it was really good. It's currently sitting in the fridge overnight and I'm having a hard time keeping my spoon out of it :) Definitely will make again, I love it.