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Cooking & Baking

irisblue

(34,875 posts) Fri Feb 7, 2025, 02:52 PM Feb 7

What do you put/use for potato salad? [View all]

My late & unlamented former Mother in Law made the best homemade potato salad. Potatoes, eggs, onions, salt, pepper & something else, but no pieces of any green spices. Could she have boiled the russerts in chicken stick & thyme? I asked her recipe, she said no I was not family. I still miss that tater salad but not her, mean woman

I got an order from a food truck today,oxtail w/butter beans & onions, steamed cabbage & potato salad their potato salad is good....except for the fresh green peas. I hate green peas.
Next time double steamed cabbage.

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What do you put/use for potato salad? [View all] irisblue Feb 7 OP

Miracle Whip makes the difference... Mark.b2 Feb 7 #1

mayo, a touch of mustard, rellish (or chopped sweet pickle) and celery seed Kali Feb 7 #2

For a long time I was making potato salad Diamond_Dog Feb 7 #3

I use Yukon gold potatoes gademocrat7 Feb 7 #4

The ox tails had to be slow cooked, the meat is fall of the bone irisblue Feb 7 #5

No mustard XanaDUer2 Feb 7 #6

Reds or yukon golds, scrubbed but unpeeled, cut into pieces, boiled, niyad Feb 7 #7

Irisblue AKwannabe Feb 7 #8

I use all the ingredients you mentioned plus chopped celery and a touch of yellow mustard or cider vinegar. Nanuke Feb 7 #9

I do the Julia China recipe dhol82 Feb 7 #10

Yes to the vinegar. Morbius Feb 10 #15

I love paprika in my potato salad radical noodle Feb 8 #11

I use a combination of real mayo Callalily Feb 8 #12

Mom's potato salad used Henri's French (now Catalina) dressing chowmama Feb 8 #13

The dressing is half mayo, and half sour cream. surrealAmerican Feb 9 #14