Potato Salad.

Shermie

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Ingredients;

4 or 5 large Russet potatoes.

1/2 cup, each finely chopped;

Onion.
Green (bell) pepper.
Celery.
Sweet Relish (jarred).

1/2 teaspoon each;

Salt.
Ground black pepper.
Seasoned Salt.
Garlic Power.
Celery Salt.
Celery Seed.
Basil.
Sylvia's Seasoning.

2 tablespoons sugar.

1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard.

1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing.

6 eggs, hard boiled & sliced.


Directions;

Peel and cut up potatoes into medium size cubes. Rinse well. In 5-qt Dutch Oven, place and cover potatoes with just enough cold water to cover them. Add a little salt. Bring water to a rolling boil over high heat. When water boils, turn off burner, cover and let potatoes sit in the hot water for 15 to 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, prepare & chop up onion, green pepper & celery. Place in bowl and add relish.

In small sauce pot, place eggs. Cover with enough cold water to cover them. Bring water to a rolling boil over high heat. Lower heat and time the boiling from that point on for 15 minutes. Then remove pot from heat, place in sink and run cold water in pot to cool the eggs. Crack and peel them all. Slice them crosswise, saving one.

Drain potatoes into a colander. Do not rinse! Let potatoes drain until no water is dripping from them. Transfer from colander to a large mixing bowl.

Combine all ingredients and toss lightly until all the ingredients are incorporated. Place mixture in a slightly smaller bowl.

Garnish with saved sliced egg, some paprika and a little basil. Cover and chill in fridge until cold. Serves six.

Enjoy! :eating2:
 

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You are better off using red rose, Yukon Gold, or one of the other waxy potatoes. They don't turn into mush when you compose the salad.

I add celery, red onion, eggs, salt and pepper, and Best Foods Mayonaise which is marketed back there as Helmans.

I'll have to try your recipe and see what the family thinks.
 
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You can pretty much use any kind of potatoes for this. I've used just about every kind for it.

The "mushiness", if you will, comes from me mashing about 1/8 or so of the potatoes after they are cooked. This helps keep the mixture from being loose. Along with the boiled egg yolks, it adds firmness to the mixture. There's a method to my madness. Our mom did it this way. There are still chunks of potato in it. Not all of them are mashed.

One of my worst pet peeves is loose potato salad! It just doesn't look appetizing to me. One of my nieces made hers that way for a funeral repass, and even though it look almost like chowder, I had a little of it.

My oldest brother made some as well, but his was stiff like mine. We pretty much do it this way, because our mom taught us that way. :cooking::eating2:
 
In my opinion the potatoes and the cooking thereof make or break the salad.

For me (just my opinion and taste) only russets will do. They must be uniformly cubed at about half an inch so they cook pretty much consistently. They must be cooked till there is the slightest hint of a mush on the outside (constant tasting). Then immediately in a cold water bath and assemble the salad. The slight mush gives the creamy texture.

Start with great potatoes and you gotta win.

Yippee. Yahoo warmer weather is here, can the salads of summer be far off?

Andy
 
Old story. When I was dating my DW, I made her potato salad for just the two of us. She asked why I was making 5# of it. I calmly replied, "That's the only way I know how to make it.". A few hours later, when she rammed the last forkful home from the empty bowl, I said "And that's the other reason."
 
I use Yukon Golds for just about everything, including potato salad. (Note to self: try Russets sometime).

Like Shermie, I like my potato salad a bit mooshy and sticking together. I mix it all when the potatoes and eggs are still hot, and love to eat it warm!

Your recipe looks terrific, Sherm - especially with all the celery seasonings in there! I found powdered celery seed in some spice store and use that instead of whole seed now, in stuff like this and tuna salad.

Time for some potato salad!

Lee
 
I use Yukon Golds for just about everything, including potato salad. (Note to self: try Russets sometime).

Like Shermie, I like my potato salad a bit mooshy and sticking together. I mix it all when the potatoes and eggs are still hot, and love to eat it warm!

Your recipe looks terrific, Sherm - especially with all the celery seasonings in there! I found powdered celery seed in some spice store and use that instead of whole seed now, in stuff like this and tuna salad.

Time for some potato salad!

Lee



Thanks, QSis!

I USED to make the tater salad without mashing some of it first, and trust me, it was just not the same!

This is the way that our mom always did it. Also, not rinsing the boiled taters after draining them, helps the mayonnaise stick to them better. Like pasta with sauce!

Mom used to boiled the taters whole with the skin on them, then peel them. I don't do it that way. I like to peel & cube them up first. Far less messy! I boil them cubed only to the boiling point, then I turn off the burner, cover them and let them sit it the hot water for 15 minutes. This helps to eliminate them from "boiling away to almost nothing".

For me, these things help make for a stiffer, delectable & delicious dish!! :eating2:
 
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And speaking of celery seed, I paid almost $6 for a tiny jar of it in the local supermarket!! That's too much to pay for such a small plastic jar of it!!

I was at a fruit & veggie store last month with one of my brothers. Saw a nice size jar of it costing less then half of that! You know that I snatched it up and gladly paid for it there!! :eating2:
 
I use Yukon Golds for just about everything, including potato salad. (Note to self: try Russets sometime).

I did try Russets - two large ones and it made a good-sized bowl of potato salad!

They held together a lot better than I thought they would!

Not a heck of a lot different from waxy potatoes, except I had to peel them.

Lee
 

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hafta make that soon. my Mom & me make an excellent one.

i prefer a waxy potato; my Mom uses idahos , tho, & hers rocks, too.
 
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