A recipe for potato salad....sort of

My daughter Liz has been working on a family cookbook.
She has been updating the one we already have and has been asking me for recipes of some of our favorite family foods that were missing in the first version.

The problem is....
I don't have recipes for some things.
I like to throw things together and cook by trial and error.
I know what ingredients to put in, but I always guess at the amounts. Usually, I just taste things and see what is missing or needed.
(I inherited this trait from my grandmother, but she took a lot of her delicious recipes
with her when she died. My kids want our recipes to survive!)

We grew up cooking by adding a pinch of this, a dash or that, or a glob or something. Pretty hard converting over to a recipe!


(Just for fun my daughter Michelle found these measuring spoons for me!)

This weekend we tried to come up with an actual recipe for our potato salad. It was pretty interesting as we tried to measure and figure things out. It is close, but it still might require the "taste test" to see if the balance is good.

Here goes:
Potato Salad

14 to 16 potatoes- about 18 cups diced (cook until tender, peel, dice into small cubes)

1 cup chopped celery or about 3 stalks

3 or 4 cups Mayonnaise (This depends on how creamy you like your salad.)

½ tablespoon Lemon Juice

1 tablespoon onion flakes (or several green onions diced)

2 tablespoons Hot Dog Relish

1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon paprika

½ to ¾ cup milk (or more if the dressing is too thick)

6 hard boiled eggs

1 hard boiled egg to cut up on top of salad

Salt and pepper to taste

Dice cooked potatoes, celery and hard boiled eggs. Mix together everything else. Pour mixture over potatoes and stir. When salad is the consistency you want it to be, slice a hard boiled egg to decorate the top. Sprinkle with Paprika.

How do you make potato salad?

♥
JoAnn


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