A Simple Salad

Sometimes you can’t beat simplicity. There’s a game we know, Skip-bo, and if you haven’t played it yet, it isn’t too late.  Every time we go to Boston to visit A’s family we play some rousing games of Skip-bo with A’s 98-year-old “Gram”.   Although Gram doesn’t like to leave her apartment if it is even threatening rain, her mind is as sharp as a tack and she will never begrudge us a game (or six) of Skip-bo.

The last time we were over there, we brought her lunch (as a surprise) and she lamented that she would have made something to go along with it had she known we’d be eating.  Now, food is often a humorous topic with Gram.  Her sons give her a hard time for the very-well-done red meat she would prepare for them growing up, the Spam she served with they lived in Saudi Arabia (Z doesn’t know why this is a problem and insists it makes amazing musubi), and they never liked her Pineapple Turnover cake.  But one thing that everybody agrees is delicious is her Carrot Salad.  Like a game of Skip-bo, it is both simple and satiating.

If you are craving something fresh and quick, but not necessarily too healthy, then give this a try.

 

Gram’s Carrot Salad

(Serves 4 as a side dish)

 

2 cups of grate carrots (3-4 medium carrots)

1 cup chopped celery (about 2 stalks)

5 tbsp mayonnaise

1/2 (heaping) tsp fresh ground pepper

1/4 tsp salt

 

Grate the carrots, chop the celery.

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Add the mayo to the carrots.  Add the celery.  Add the salt and pepper and serve.

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Got to love the taste of a Grandma’s cooking.  What recipes from your grandmothers do you still make?  Let us know so we can try them!