IT IS OVER 70° IN MICHIGAN IN MARCH!!!!!

El Nino years are good to us.  In honor of this beautiful weather, it could be snowing at this time of year, we are having a 1940's picnic to celebrate my Mom.

My Mom in 1948 at 43 years old having fun in Lake Michigan.


MOM'S CREAM CHEESE AND OLIVE SANDWICHES
On a beautiful summer day when the big white fluffy clouds would come drifting off Lake Michigan, my Mom would make these sandwiches and we would pack them up and go climb one of the big dunes near our cottage. We'd lie in the warm sand, eat sandwiches and hard cooked eggs while looking for all the cloud shapes, dragons, animals, funny faces and castles, formed by the puffy slow moving clouds. The dunes are covered with houses now but the sandwiches are still good.

Good quality wheat bread, we used homemade
Cream cheese, softened
Pimento stuffed green olives, sliced

Spread cream cheese on bread. Lay olive slices on cream cheese; top with second slice of bread.  NOTE:  This recipe is frequently found in cookbooks from the 1940's as is CREAM CHEESE & CHOPPED NUT SANDWICHES.  For an updated, layers of flavor sandwich, use a jarred Italian Muffuletta Olive Salad instead of just green olives.


MOM'S EGG SALAD
Mom didn't rely on seasonings for flavor, she relied on top quality products and she was very fussy about where she shopped, what she bought and the person from who she bought it.

Hard-cooked eggs
Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, no other mayonnaise would do
Salt to taste

Peel eggs.  Put in bowl and smash with a fork or potato masher.  Add mayonnaise to moisten and salt to taste.  NOTE:  At Michigan State University, they put a little sweet  pickle relish in their egg salad which I like too.