Potato salad recipes (crackers, seasonings, using, apple)

[eureka1]

I would skip the cashews and the cranberries. The rest is fine. Keep it simple! What makes a good potato salad is not the ingredients but the FRESHNESS. Good luck!

[Dirt Grinder]

Mine is a take on the traditional Southern potato salad: potatoes, two chopped boiled eggs per pound of potatoes, plenty of relish, vidalia onion, mayo, 1 TBSP vinegar (actually I use pickle brine), a squirt of mustard, bit of salt, a few grinds of pepper.

[missik999]

Add a couple of unique ingredients to make it special. Try adding shallots, snipped green onions, and toasted cumin and you will receive compliments.

Heat three tablespoons of olive oil in s small skillet, then stir in two tablespoons of cumin seeds. Stir and cook for a few minutes until they get a little darker. Add to your other potato salad ingredients.

[diva360]

I always use onion and a bit of chopped celery, and, like dirt, about that ratio of hard-boiled eggs. I don't like vinegar or pickles for mayo-based potato salad (vinegar is another matter for German-style), but I find it useful to mix the mayo, mustard, and a little milk in a separate container before dressing the potato/onion/whatever else mixture before dressing the salad. That helps maintain the integrity of the other ingredients.

[Almrausch]

We like warm potato salad with these ingredients..

potatoes
large Vidalia onion
red wine vinegar
olive oil
chive
vegetable broth
salt/black pepper

Or

potatoes
hardboiled eggs
Vidalia onions
dill pickles
apple dices
capers
Dijon mustard
salt/ black pepper/ pinch of sugar
white vinegar
sour creme or Greek yogurt mixed under last

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by missik999

Add a couple of unique ingredients to make it special...

My wife puts blanched French cut green beans in her potato salad.

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

Mine is a take on the traditional Southern potato salad: potatoes, two chopped boiled eggs per pound of potatoes, plenty of relish, vidalia onion, mayo, 1 TBSP vinegar (actually I use pickle brine), a squirt of mustard, bit of salt, a few grinds of pepper.

This was pretty much my parents recipe for Potato salad.. with a tad of garlic powder with the salt and pepper, and they would add two shakes of tabasco sauce.

They would also put some paprika., capers, and chopped scallion on top of the serving bowl for garnish.

Southern...they were not, they hailed from Northeast Pa.

[gentlearts]

I like a few splashes of rice vinegar combined with Kraft mayonnaise. This, along with the usual suspects...celery, onion, salt, pepper, Beau Monde or celery salt, and dill. I do t like a lot of weird stuff in potato salad.

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

...Southern...they were not, they hailed from Northeast Pa.

That's why they added five ingredients not found in the Southern version.

[HomeIsWhere...]

Originally Posted by WorldKlas

I need to bring something to a group meal this evening. I boiled up 3lbs of potatoes and now its time to create the potato salad.

I have relish, pickles, apples, cashews, mustard, mayo, many kinds of vinegars, onions, dried cranberries, carrots, and eggs in the house.

Which ingrediants would you use? If necessary, I can run to the grocery store; just hoping to avoid doing so.

I think all the suggestions are great but not knowing 'the group', me personally I would stick with a classic similar or exactly to what DirtGrinder suggested. It really is by definition a southern classic. However, that may not be what you're looking for.

Good luck!

P.S. Please come back and let us know what/how you made (it) and how it went, we love it when something goes over big and we learn from what doesn't hit the mark. Thanks in advance!