Egg salad conversation sandwich

For 3 servings:

To make sandwich filling:

• Boil 5 eggs until done. (Cover eggs with cold water in saucepan. Heat to boil. Cover with lid and turn off heat. Let stand 20 minutes.)

• Drain the water. Peel the eggshell from eggs.

• Place diced shelled eggs in mixing bowl

• Add chopped dill pickles (1 whole dill pickle, chopped, per serving)

• Add chopped 1/2 cup chopped pecans

• Moisten mixture with mustard and pickle juice

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To make sandwiches:

• Toast sandwich bread (2 slices per serving)
  

• Place lettuce leaves on toast. Top with egg salad.

• Assemble sandwiches and cut in half.

• Quickly print conversation starters on skinny slips of paper.

• When no one is looking, toothpick a conversation starter on each half of sandwich, with the print facing down.

Serve sandwiches. As diners eat, occasionally refer to printed conversation starters -- to start
or maintain an amicable conversation.

Bon appetit!