Broccoli Salad

2 bunches broccoli flowerets, cut into small pieces

1/2 cup diced red onion (optional - and NO with Tassi, Brooke or Juli Kaye)

1/2 cup raisins or to taste, (Maleah only uses two 1 oz boxes)

1 lb bacon, fried until crispy and crumbled OR 1 60z pouch Real Bacon Bits

Dressing:

1 cup mayonnaise

2 Tbs Sugar or Stevia

2 Tbs white vinegar

Combine chopped broccoli, onion, raisins and bacon. Mix dressing ingredients together and pour over salad 30 minutes before serving, not over two hours. Can be made in advance, but do not add dressing until just before serving.

Maleah used to work ay TG&Y and the manager was Gantt Lovins. His wife Louise was a good cook and she would always bring homemade food to the store.

"After Louise died, I don't know how Gantt fell in love with that thing he married. She was pitiful, pitiful. Louise was so sweet and so good to him. This one that came along wasn't nothin. I don't believe she ever ate. She never spoke to a soul. I bet he never slept with the woman. She's like a little pole. I think she was dead when she married him," Ginnie said.

Louise, however, would share recipes with the team at TG&Y. One of their favorites was Broccoli Salad. "When I made for Ken, he loved it, so I started to make it all the time."- Maleah