Home » Food » By Course » Side Dishes » Favorite Pea Salad Favorite Pea Salad December 16, 2022 by Kimberly Killebrew · No CommentsAs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.See my disclosure policy.Peas are coated in a creamy dressing and tossed with bacon, red onions, and cheddar cheese.

The result in what our family considers an absolutely indispensable side dish at family gatherings!  This BEST Pea Salad recipe has remained a family favorite for over three decades! Most have us have certain dishes that we associate with our childhoods.  I have many of them, especially favorite dishes I grew up with in Germany.  This Pea Salad is a dish I associate specifically with the holidays – Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas – because it was a favorite of mine and my brother and we insisted it be served at every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner pretty much regardless of whatever else was served.  Indeed, if my mom ever suggested going a holiday without it, my brother and I would immediately remind her that to not have pea salad at the holiday table was akin to sacrilege.Even now, many years later, as we travel and come together as a family for the holidays, one of us is assigned to prepare pea salad.  It is in fact the only dish that has remained a staple “must have” at our holiday table; all others, however beloved they may be, are dispensable and subject to rotation.  But not pea salad.  Not only that, my brother and I always insist that whoe

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