Making a big batch of potato

[Texasgal]

salad for tomorrows festivities with all the mothers in my family, and of course MY Mother!

My potato salad is a family favorite that I've been making for years.

Yukon gold potatoes not peeled

Dukes mayo

Slight mustard

Clausen's garlic Kosher pickles. With a dash of juice. ( the secret in my opinion )

Red onion

Black pepper

What's your favorite potato recipe?

[Melissa G]

1. Not the pickles

cuz i don't like them.
What you did otherwise, but add hard boiled egg and a little finely chopped celery and parsley and a bit of paprika and salt

[Texasgal]

2. Do you use fresh parsely?

I've often used fresh in many dishes although I don't seem to use it all when I buy it. I need more ideas!

[Melissa G]

3. Big fan of fresh parsley!

I use fresh when I have it. (it's trying to bolt in my garden right now!) I used dried when I don't. Love Parsley!

Ideas for Parsley:
parsleyed noodles
parsleyed potatoes
(pretty much parsleyed any starch)
parsleyed scrambled eggs with butter
parsleyed soups- green soups, corn soups. chicken soups
(favorite is chicken noodle soup adding parsley, corn and a bit of milk or dairy.)

parsleyed creamy casseroles

parsleyed veggies, esp carrots.

fresh veggie juice blends with a dash of fruit and parsley

freshly made salad dressings with finely minced parsley

Not too much that isn't better without a sprinkle of finely chopped chlorophyll, I mean parsley!

[pinto]

4. Mine's pretty basic -

Chunky potatoes
Red onion
Celery
Radish
Mayo
Dijon mustard
Black pepper
Salt
Parsley
Celery greens
Tarragon

Topped with a little shredded carrot or ginger

[Texasgal]

5. That sounds very inetersting

No mayo?

Hmmm... I may need a better recipe! Thanks for sharing!

Oh wait... never mind. Saw the mayo! LOL!

[Lucinda]

6. I change it up a lot...but usually always have mayo and dill.

If I add pickle, it's usually sweet.

[Warpy]

7. I like my red potato salad the best

Red potato, boiled then cut and sprinkled with cider vinegar.

Chopped red onion, celery, fresh parsley, scallion. Lots of black pepper.

Dressing is 1/2 mayo, 1/2 sour cream.

And now I'm hungry, guess I need to go to the store one of these days and get a bag of red potatoes.

[Lugnut]

8. I use red potatoes.

Like you, I boil them whole then peel the skins from them and cube them while they're still warm. Then I add a pile of chopped celery, onion and about 4 or 5 chopped hard-boiled eggs. I don't cut the mayo with quite as much sour cream but I like to mellow the mayo with a tablespoon or two of it. I've never added chopped kosher dill pickles. My s-i-l always adds some of the brine and I really like her potato salad.

We always have a gang here for the summer holidays so I make 5 lbs. and usually end up with a small amount left over. I've been told that my guests really like the hard-boiled egg addition.

[Warpy]

10. I leave the sins on, they're pretty

with the green on the scallions, celery and parsley. I just cut them into halves, quarters and eighths.

I loathe eggs in potato salad so I never put any in.

My potato salad is very chunky and I like it that way.

To each his or her own.

[dem in texas]

15. Yes- 1/2 mayo and 1/2 sour cream

That is what I like too, I add a little Dijon mustard and a shake of rice wine vinegar. Use Hellman's mayo.

When I boil my potatoes, I put in a few bay leaves (discard them when draining the potatoes). They give the potatoes a little different taste and everyone will be asking you how you got that taste.

Also I like to use sweet pickle relish instead of dill pickles. Some hard boiled egg, chopped onion and celery and a little pimento.

Don't forget to sprinkle paprika on top.

[Granny M]

9. Just like yours,

with a bit of celery and some hard-boiled eggs. Although, our son has decided he doesn't like mayo (shocking - he didn't get that from MY side of the family ), so I've been making a German-style one lately, with onions and bacon and a bit of oil and vinegar.

[fizzgig]

11. mine always has bacon

crumbled bacon plus some of the fat in the dressing.

mayo, mustard, celery onions, black pepper, fresh dill and celery salt.

never, ever any hard boiled eggs.

[Freddie]

12. Lots of celery (I love celery)

Hard boiled eggs finely chopped and onions. Crispy bacon crumbled on top. I also like chopped green olives but DH hates olives so I'm outvoted there. Mayo and a couple shakes of bottled ranch dressing.
Must make first potato salad of the season soon!

[grasswire]

13. mine is tweaked New England grandmother style

She didn't put olives in hers. I do.

The potatoes are russets, quartered and simmered in their jackets with salt and pepper. Cooled in their jackets, too -- the potato-y flavor is really enhanced. Then the skins slip off.

The potatoes, cut into chunks.

diced celery

diced dill pickles

hard-cooked eggs, sliced

a can of black olives, drained

diced onion, yellow or sweet

Best Foods/Hellman's

a squirt of yellow mustard

a couple of TB dried dill weed

Some diced jarred pimento if I happen to have any, for color

a scant pinch of celery seed

a TB or more of sugar, depending on the size of the batch

Mmmmmmm. Wish I had some right now.

[freshwest]

14. This is how I made it:

Boiled potatoes, cut small enough to eat; fresh sliced celery; diced onions; sweet pickle relish; sliced black olives; prepared mustard; lemon-type mayonnaise; Lawry's seasoned pepper; cross sliced hard-boiled eggs; dried parsley.

Usually boil the eggs just before adding, just firm, mix with still warm potatoes. When in a hurry, I made mashed potato salad:



Sauted onions and celery in butter, boiled the eggs, added the other ingredients to already mashed potatoes. The vegetables are sauted to match the texture. Very fast.

[LancetChick]

16. Julia Child's American Potato Salad with homemade mayo.

Yukon or other boiling potatoes
Potato cooking water with a big splash of cider vinegar
Chopped yellow onions with salt
Chopped celery
Chopped dill pickles
Crumbled bacon
Chopped hard-boiled eggs
Chopped red pimientos
Chopped fresh parsley
Homemade mayo (very easy, but smells too much of the oil you use unless you let it sit in the fridge overnight) (Bought mayo would be fine).

This is what I make when I do July 4th picnic food. Loved by all.