AUNT JUANITA'S BROCCOLI AND CAULIFOWER SALAD

 

AUNT JUANITA'S 
BROCCOLI and CAULIFLOWER SALAD

This post will be kind of like the recipe card I'm holding in my hand  
without a colorful picture to illustrate the salad when finished.

Aunt Juanita has been gone for awhile and so has Uncle Will.  

Both were great COOKS.

As long as I can remember Aunt Juanita, was a vivacious women with an extremely out going personality.  Her personality was infectious and oh how I loved this woman.

It's an honor to me to have a copy of one of her recipes.

When I was a young girl, I thought nothing about losing recipes for dishes that were presented at many a family gathering.  As I got older, I still didn't cherish the recipes.  I think I thought LIFE would never end as I knew it.  Boy, was I wrong.  I'm now in my 60s and an old woman myself. When I go to a family gathering, I'm now one of the elderly and all the faces have changed.  The day will come when we no longer gather.  I can't think about that right now as the memories I have are cherished.  For now, this salad is good for the ages.

Aunt Juanita's Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad
1/2 cup mayo

1/3 cup white vinegar

1/3 cup oil

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

broccoli

cauliflower

1 bunch green onions

1 cup black olives

Blend the first 5 ingredients.

Let this sit in the refrigerator for 1 hour then pour over vegetables and marinate over night.

As I was reading about cauliflower, I had wondered if the colored cauliflower were more nutrient dense then white cauliflower.  Come to find out, colored cauliflower has more antioxidants.  I believe this salad could be modified using colored cauliflower along with the white making a delicious salad to enjoy.

Finding these green, orange and purple cauliflowers will be challenging as the stores seems to sell only the white ones.  Perhaps I should attempt to grow some next Spring.

Going to have to try this!

  ~d