Update!

Yesterday I decided to restrain (is that a word???) the Blackeyed Pea salad, since it seemed so wet, and then remake and apply the dressing!! It worked and the salad was much much better. So what I'm thinking is if I had let the salad sit for the 8 hours and then applied the dressing, it would have gone a lot better, all the juices from the veggies would have accumulate and they could be drained off, therefor, not watering down the dressing!! Yippee!! I was so excited when I figured this out!

Amen