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To: SAJ

Please post your potato salad recipe.


9 posted on 08/02/2017 3:50:19 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: jonrick46
A good recipe. VERY flexible according to your taste.

5 lbs. red potatoes (or 7 lbs new red potatoes...they're smaller), chopped to your taste as to size of chop
mayonnaise and yellow mustard (see note below)
12 manzanilla olives w/pimiento, diced
16 largish dill pickle slices
salt and ground pepper to taste

Traditionally, you peel and boil the potatoes. I do neither; leave the skin on when you chop them. Fry the chopped potatoes in a little butter or oil (butter is better) until lightly browned.

Drain the potatoes on a paper towel, then place in a large bowl. Add mayo, mustard, diced olives, diced pickles, pepper and salt. Toss or mix well, and refrigerate for 20 minutes at least, covered.

Note 1: Mustard has quite a bit of salt.

Note 2: Everyone is different. I like a ratio of 5 mayo to 2 mustard. Try 5 tsp/2 tsp at first, then, if you want a wetter potato salad, do it again.

Note 3: Potatoes being potatoes, I use the pepper rather freely, the salt rather sparingly. Can't give you tsp measurement, I count "shakes", sorry.

Note 4: If you have Emerilistic tendencies, you can always substitute crushed red pepper for the black pepper. Or mix them.

Serves 10-12 normal people, or 5-7 SAJs (g!)

Nappy noshing!

25 posted on 08/02/2017 4:15:38 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: jonrick46
Forgot to mention "dice the pickle slices".

Sorry.

28 posted on 08/02/2017 4:20:38 PM PDT by SAJ
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