Bacon Pimiento Egg Salad
Egg salad is definitely a summer time sandwich fixing! Did you know there are many ways to prepare egg salad? Did you know that you can fancy it up a bit?
This recipe combines a couple of classics – Bacon & Eggs!
Pimientos are included for a dash of flavor and a splash of color.
It’s a simple summer sandwich, with a twist of flavor to entice your meat loving family members to eat a protein full meal.
My grandma Chase made egg salad sandwiches for my sister, father and I to eat on a return trip from visiting grandma and grandpa in Vermont. Her egg salad was simple. The bread was coarse, New England brown bread.The sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper. Dill pickles were included in our picnic package.
Dad loaded my sister and I into the back seat of a rented, four-seater airplane and we took off on about an 8 hour flight. Since the small plane (probably a Cessna) flew slightly faster than we would have driven in the car, the trip was going to be several hours faster by plane.
My Dad standing beside an airplane similar to the one we flew from Vermont to Ohio.
However, we had to stop at a few small airports along the flight plan to refuel and use the bathroom. At one of those airports, we pulled out the picnic lunch and ate our sandwiches. My sister and I drank Coke from a vending machine (8 oz glass bottles). Dad had a cup of black airport coffee – strong and served in a Styrofoam cup.
What a great lunch we had!
Bacon & Pimiento Egg Salad Recipe
Ingredients:
12 lg Eggs
1 c Mayonnaise
2 TB Mustard
3 TB Pimiento
5 oz Bacon Bits
Recipe Directions:
Hard boil and cool the eggs. Peel and slice eggs into medium mixing bowl. Add the mayonnaise, mustard, pimiento and bacon. Stir to mix well. Chill.
Approximate Nutrition Information:
Servings Per Recipe: 12, Amount Per Serving: Calories: 178, Fat: 13g, Cholesterol: 227mg, Sodium: 513g, Total Carbs: 4g, Protein: 11g.
Make It A Meal:
Serve in a hot dog bun, on wheat toast or bagels with lettuce and pickles for lunch time sandwich. Serve with crackers as an appetizer. Serve over lettuce and chopped vegetables to make a salad.
This sandwich goes well alongside Beef Vegetable Soup and followed by Fruit Cocktail Cake.
If you’re planning to pack this egg salad for a picnic, I recommend using a salad dressing instead of real mayonnaise. Remember, real mayonnaise is subject to spoiling when exposed to warm temperatures. The salad dressings that look like mayo are similar in flavor and won’t spoil.
If you are a purest where mayo is concerned, then don’t substitute ingredients. Instead, make positive you have plenty of cold storage on hand and don’t let the heat get to your sandwiches or you.
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Sounds like you guys had a wonderful lunch! Great twist on a hot dog, I especially like your addition of pimentos!
Kathleen,
Thanks for stopping by! Isn’t it funny how closely food is tied to memories?
Nothing beats a good egg salad or am 8oz glass bottled coke from the machine! Love those memories! Thanks for linking up to Saucy Saturdays and I hope you will join us next week too!
Hi Jen!
LOL and the egg salad should be wrapped in waxed paper!!
I’m planning on being along on Saturday.
I love egg salad too! I especially love food that have such wonderful memories associated with it! Adding bacon definitely makes everything better too
Thank you so much for linking up with us at #saucysaturdays!
Hi Dini!
Glad to be a part of the #saucysaturdays! What a good time!
You got me at bacon egg salad must definitely goes with bacon. I have learned to loev egg salad since I live here in the south such a treat
LOL @ loving bacon! Glad you’re on the bacon team! It’s funny how regional tastes can be.
Sound like so much fun. Nothing beats a good egg salad. Love pimento so this sounds perfect.
It’s one of life’s simple pleasures – but can be made into such a fancy thing, if you want!
I hadn’t thought of adding bacon to egg salad, but I think I would love that flavor combo. Everything is better with bacon!
Aw, come on, Pam! Try it this weekend, let me know what you think! LOL
Omg! Your recipe is superb. We love bacon so much. And these other ingredients addens up the flavor. Nice sharing it. Thanks.
You’re welcome Chei! not only is this tasty, but it’s pretty budget friendly too.
Isn’t it funny how we associate food with times and places? Some of the best memories are a combination of food and experience. I love egg salad and just don’t make it enough. It makes such a delicious sandwich and it’s so simple to make. I’ve got some egg salad to make – thank you for the reminder.
LOL you’re welcome for the reminder, Marisa! I think food and memory is inherently tied together because the food is a taste, scent and texture sensation that bonds the memory to our brain … at least that’s my unscientific opinion!
The egg salad looks so good and the addition of pimiento peppers is definitely delicious. I love classic recipes especially the ones passed in generations or made by our granma…they had such simple ingredients yet were so delicious. Loved reading about your trip and sounds like you’ll had lots of fun travelling
Molly, travel is part of my family’s culture for sure. My mom was a travel agent for many years and is always up for the adventure of a trip.
Oh this sounds wonderful! I have to try adding pimientos next time…what a delicious twist!
Catherine, mix it up! Egg salad doesn’t have to be boring
I love the simplicity of this recipe. My hubby’s aunt has always hounded me for pimento recipe variations and I bet she’d just love this. I’m going to make this the next party I host at the end of summer, yum!
Jessica, do let me know what the pimento Aunt thinks! I’ll bet she’s a connoisseur!
I love egg salad! I’ve never tried it with pimientos though! Sounds interesting!
Sarah, if you love egg salad and like pimientos, give this a try!
Now this is definitely a man’s man dish. I couldn’t imagine anyone turning it down. Perfect for games and packed lunches!
Maren – you are so right! I never thought of packing this for ball games!
What fun memories. And this looks like the ultimate egg salad! YUM
Stephanie … walking down memory lane happens more often than I’d like to admit when I’m prepping recipes for the blog … lol
Such an interesting post. I love to know things that are passed down to generations. And recipes like these are an absolute keeper.
Deepika, families are funny about their foods, aren’t they? I love reading your recipes simply because they are so new and different to my tastes … glad you like this post.