My recipe box is full of things picked up from friends and family. One of the simple salad recipes from my mom’s best friend that’s become a holiday staple in our household is Seven Layer Salad. You can find a lot of variations on this across the internet, but the way Mrs. D always made it (and thus us, too) is, from the bottom up:

layer of iceberg lettucelayer of sliced celery (my husband likes it super thin)layer of Le Seur baby peaslayer purple onion (for us, also super th...