National Egg Salad Week is the first week in April, reason to explore what makes a really great egg salad.

Hard-cooked eggs with mayo isn’t egg salad, but a recipe called Eggs Mayonnaise.

It’s pretty dull.

You can add celery and onions to make egg salad and call it quits at that—but you can do so much better!

Check out our deftly seasoned egg salad recipes and many variations of the basic recipe.

We’ve also included the history of mayonnaise—because where is egg salad without it?

And to follow it up, the history of egg salad (which, needless to say, comes after the invention of mayonnaise).

Check out our yummy ideas for egg salad (photo by Falcatraz | iStock Photo).