I have heard that Jean Booth’s broccoli salad is to die for. My wife is making it for our thanksgiving dinner at our daughter house this year. She just loves it!
I believe that there is a “Broccoli conspiracy” happing all around me. I don’t like broccoli! I feel like I am the Jolly-green giant eating trees when I eat it. Sorry Jean I will not eat my broccoli in my plate this year at dinner time! Hope I don’t get sent to my room!

When I go to Siempre our kids home in Mexico, every time I eat with them they have broccoli in everything. The “truth” is that when I pull up in the morning at Siempre they see my jeep and they run to the kitchen to put a pot of broccoli on the stove. So at lunch time they have one of the kids come and get me for dinner, “Pastor Ken, Pastor Ken---“LUNCH” with a smile that say’s “Broccoli”.
I have to be a good example for all those kids, so I eat the entire broccoli in my bowl. I do it---but deep down in my heart I wish I was back in the good-old USA so I can choose not to eat it.

Jean Booth gave me the recipe for the Broccoli salad today. I will pass it on to my wife. Jean is a great cook and I love the other things she makes. I told her if she would give me all her other recipes I would publish a book for her. Thanks Jean! Here is the recipe for the salad from Jean’s Kitchen Cookbook.

Broccoli Salad
2 heads of broccoli –chopped
1 small red onion- diced
1 red delicious apple- diced
½ cup of raisins
½ cup of pecans
12 slices cooked bacon- crumbled
Dressing (mix-up the night before)
1 cup Best Food Mayo
¼ cup of sugar
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
Next week’s recipe will be her Strawberry Spinach Salad.
Don’t like that either! Never did understand why Popeye ate Spinach!