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Labor Day weekend--are you making potato salad? My recipe is rather ho-hum....mayo, add sliced celery & chopped egg. What morsels do you add to potato salad?
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32 Comments:
mayo, chopped celery, egg, onion and dill pickle
NanaJoie at 7:31AM on 08/29/07
This particular book contains 50 very nice recipes for potato salad. My own recipe is different, with oven-roasted potato cubes, sausage simmered in beer, and grilled peppers and onions. My site's down at the moment or I'd post the link to the PDF. Maybe later ...
LunaPierCook at 8:02AM on 08/29/07
In my house, we usually have potato salad in one specific setting: as part of a traditional Norwegian meal of poached salmon and cucumber salad. We add soured cream and fage, spring onions, chives and lots of pepper. When we're throwing caution to the wind, I like to add capers too.
caley at 8:08AM on 08/29/07
My favorite potato salad is one from The Barbecue Bible by Steve Raichlen. It features white and sweet potatoes. The dressing is a mayo / mustard mix with green olives and capers. It is the opposite of bland!
Library Lady at 9:03AM on 08/29/07
Just made a nice one this past weekend with small red skinned potatoes, capers, scallions, dijon mustard, white wine vinegar and olive oil.
ceforrester at 10:16AM on 08/29/07
Add curry powder to the mayo/mustard dressing.
KItkat at 10:34AM on 08/29/07
Bacon
nelson5757 at 11:27AM on 08/29/07
LunaPierCook---thanks for the book recommendation. By the reviews, you are not the only person that I liked it! Link your own recipe when site is back up.
Also remember the Summer Shack Cookbook had a good recipe & think it was Ed who discussed it & added his own tips for sucess a while back.
JEP at 11:51AM on 08/29/07
Ed's Summer Shack potato salad is wonderful, as is I Was Really Very Hungry's Japanese potato salad. I made a great, if lazy PS this week with Yukon Gold potatoes, Kewpie mayonnaise and finely minced Vidalia Onion. That was all, but it was very flavorful. I find Yukon Golds bring a potato taste which is great in very simple dishes and especially ones served cold or at room temp.
annien at 12:42PM on 08/29/07
I like using mostly plain yogurt and just a little mayo, lightens it up tremendously, and adds a nice tang. I also use fresh dill, green and red onions, pickles and celery.
Alm25 at 12:47PM on 08/29/07
JEP, it's running on occasion now ... keep trying to get it from:
http://www.micuisine.com/mi_cuisine/recipes/pdfs/potatosalad.pdf
LunaPierCook at 2:12PM on 08/29/07
Yukon golds makes the best potato salad. I mix in chopped eggs, celery, sweet relish, chopped scallion, mayo, sour cream, and a little mustard.
Susiebee at 2:30PM on 08/29/07
No matter what potato salad I make, the one constant (besides potatoes) is ONIONS.
lemons at 2:33PM on 08/29/07
Yes, the Yokon Gold's are the best potatoes for salad. I also add eggs, celery, sweet pickle relish, a dab of yellow mustard, some chopped red onions, and Hellman's (Best Foods) Real Mayo. Never Miracle Whip.
Lavendergirl at 2:34PM on 08/29/07
Herbs, herbs, and more herbs. I like to add relatively large amounts of fresh chopped parsley, dill, tarragon, chives, thyme, and oregano.
Nicholas H at 3:21PM on 08/29/07
The key to our potato salad is to add a small amount of vinaigrette to the warm potatoes. Adding it at this time I believe helps it to absorb into the potatoes. After the potatoes cool it's mayo, sour cream, celery, spring onion greens, radishes, ripe olives and chopped egg.
Colorado Jim at 4:32PM on 08/29/07
I like a German potato salad, so bring on the vinegar, add the bacon or wurst, and keep it warm!
klg19 at 4:49PM on 08/29/07
Miracle whip instead of mayo, a little vinegar, mustard, sugar and pepper.... not to mention pickles, peppers, onions and eggs.
We have to make it the day before... and for some reason when we make it, there has to be ham involved. And I always boil extra eggs for egg salad after i'm done b/c making it always makes me hungry....
barbigirl8 at 1:28AM on 08/30/07
Thanks for all the potato salad tips. barbigirl8---On the second day, mine always seems to always taste better, too. Yes, when I use mayo, it is Hellmann's.
JEP at 5:42AM on 08/30/07
have to agree with klg, hold the mayo and bring out the good vinegar! but hold the bacon on mine please, add lightly sauteed mushrooms!
huney_bumper at 8:57AM on 08/30/07
Our secret family recipe calls for roasted russets, bacon, red onion, real mayo, and boiled egg. It's always better if you make it a day ahead and let the flavors combine overnight.
Tara Tot at 11:20AM on 08/30/07
Adding chipotle peppers to potato salad ellivates it beyond the standard mayo and mustard fare.
spanklin at 11:51AM on 08/30/07
I saw one version in SF with edamame and wasabi mayo. I've also added small cold shrimp.
synaesthesia.dc at 12:44PM on 08/30/07
Pickles, red onion and fresh dill
Mo t at 12:53PM on 08/30/07
I love smoked trout in potato salad on occasion.
zapatista at 4:32PM on 08/30/07
I use the recipe from my favorite cookbook, The New Best Recipe. Diced hardboiled egg, minced sweet pickles, minced red onion, minced celery, minimal mayo, and a little Dijon mustard. Recipe's in my blog: Throwing Spoons
macknitter at 9:59PM on 08/30/07
hot sauce!
Littlebluesiren at 11:24PM on 08/30/07
watercress.
jenniferrariadler at 8:47AM on 08/31/07
Thanks for all the comments & suggestions---I think it indicates my ho-hum recipe needs a make-over! You've given me some ideas that I'd never thought of to mix-in potato salad :).
JEP at 9:46AM on 08/31/07
Add 1 to 2 tbsps. pesto to mayo.
elaine at 6:02PM on 08/31/07
Pickle juice instead of vinegar (dill is best) and celery seed instead of chopped celery.
i_like_camels at 1:40AM on 09/02/07
I use dillpickles, onoins, eggs, with a dressing made of mayo, yellow mustard, & sweetpickle juice(off bread &butter pickles). My husband swears he never liked potato salad until he ate mine, but he made me swear I wouldn't tell his Mom.
peticook at 11:23PM on 09/03/07