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This morning I made potato salad to tonight's dinner. Whenever my son's friend comes to dinner, he requests my potato salad, which I think is odd because it is pretty much ordinary potato salad. The only thing I can figure is that he doesn't cook, so probably the only potato salad he gets is at restaurants, where they are conscientious about costs.
I cook the potatoes and hard boiled eggs the night before, and make the salad in the morning so the mayonnaise has time to soak in. All it is is:
Best Foods mayonnaise
Salt (I use seasons salt)
Pepper (freshly ground)
cubes of cooked potatoes
Finely diced onions
Hard cooked eggs, coarsely chopped
sweet pickles, cubed
I am generous with the sweet pickles and only buy the good ones: Vlasic or Mt Olive. I'm also generous with the hard cooked eggs.
Sometimes I put a couple of drops of Tapatio hot sauce in the dressing. Sometimes I put in little rings of green onion because that looks nice.
Occasionally, I have to add a bit more mayonnaise before serving if too much of the mayo has soaked int the potatoes.
The friend isn't coming to dinner tonight, but I might have to send a container of potato salad for him to work in the morning.
My recipe is like yours except I add sweet & dill pickle relish, a little yellow mustard, chopped celery & kosher salt.
My MIL added sliced black olives & radishes, no mustard.
I love potato salad, it's very forgiving, & every way is the right way.
I put Clausen dill pickle juice in addition to some dill relish in mine. I like the onion chopped rather large -- so I can taste the onion. I also put the leafy parts of celery in mine and use Dijon mustard along with the mayo.
I also top mine with stuffed green olives and paprika.
I grew up from the age of 10 believing I was allergic to eggs, they would make me ill if I ate them, so I never made potato salad with them. Found out about 11 years ago at the age of 58, it was a bad gallbladder not an allergy.
Anyway, I don’t add eggs to mine, never grew to like eggs in mine in recent years.
Mine is simple, Dukes mayo, mustard, salt, pepper, a bit of dill weed, then add to the cold cooked potatoes.
A friend who worked in a restaurant as a young woman told me to peel the potatoes while they were as hot as you could handle. Cube them, salt and pepper, dash with a splash of white vinegar and add chopped onions and let them marinate overnight in the refrigerator. Finish the rest in the morning.
Sometimes I add green olives or celery.
For German potato salad I still use the Betty Crocker recipe but slice the potatoes thin as for frying.
Apparently, it is a reginal thing and the folks in North Idaho love dill. The potato salad here is loaded with it. It doesn't matter where you buy it, it is strongly flavored with dill.
I'm not a fan of dill, especially when it is really strong, so I can no longer buy potato salad. Potato salad is a big project so I used to occasionally buy a good brand of prepared potato salad. No more. All potato salad at my house is home made.
The worst chore when making potato salad is peeling the hard cooked eggs. I got those little silicone Egglets to make hard cooked eggs and now the eggs are not too much trouble. The little silicone cups have to be washed, but that is nothing compared to picking egg shells off of hard boiled eggs,
I had become a convert to Southern-style Potato Salad with the addition of mustard and the eggs simply halved before mixing in so they're in bigger chunks versus blended in. But then Southern Living had to print a recipe for Deviled Egg Potato Salad and now that's all I ever want. It's a definite must try!
I did, too, until Walmart permanently traumatized me. I am fond of Duke's, but can't always get it here.
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