Happy House and Home: Creamy Potato Salad Recipe (with Bacon)

Hello all! I hope you're having a great day!

I feel awful about my post yesterday - I'm sorry I wrote such a bummer of a post. No one wants to think about Poison Ivy. I hope you forgive me. Because of that, I decided to share a recipe that I hope will make it up to you.

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It's BBQ season, and therefore, potato salad season. I don't even like potatoes, but I like potato salad. This is the recipe I use, and the combination is creamy, a little sweet, and a little salty.

I had a gallon bag of leftover salt potatoes, so I decided to make up a batch of potato salad, rather than just heat up the potatoes. I love using salt potatoes for the salad because they have so much flavor. If you can't have or don't like salt (or don't have any leftover salt potatoes), fear not. Just boil up about 2 lbs of potatoes and you're good to go.

When I make potato salad, I keep the skins on. Lots of the vitamins in a potato are in the skins. However, if you don't want to use the skins, be my guest, and just peel all of those vitamins away. (My Mom will be so proud of me that I'm lecturing you on keeping the vitamin-filled skins on!)

Don't tell, but speaking of being somewhat healthy, for the mayo, I used 1/2 cup fat free plain yogurt and 1/2 cup mayonnaise, just my little attempt at reducing the fat in this salad. No one will know the difference, and it just makes ME feel better about myself if I cut some of the fat.

Creamy Potato Salad

Serves 8

Ingredients:

6 medium potatoes (about 2 pounds), cubed
1/2 lb bacon (see note)
1 cup thinly sliced or diced celery
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
2 hard boiled egg, chopped

For the dressing:

1/3 cup sweet pickle relish
1 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons celery seeds
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
2 TBSP Dijon mustard
1 1/2 teaspoons salt (DO NOT add if you used salt potato leftovers!)
2 tsp dried parsley
Fresh dill (for garnish)

** Before you make the salad, partially freeze your bacon, and with a sharp knife cut it into small pieces. Cook in the frying pan until crispy. Cool.

Boil your potatoes until tender. Use whatever method you like, cube them first, boil them whole. Just don't let them get too mushy. I cut mine fairly small because I just like smaller pieces. Let them cool.

Hard boil your eggs and cool them.

Combine the potatoes, celery, onion, cooked bacon and hard boiled eggs.

Meanwhile mix the dressing ingredients.

Combine the potato mixture with the dressing ingredients and garnish with fresh dill.
(Apparently fresh dill is not for everyone. When I served this last night, our 5 year old said "Oh potatoes with grass on top. Can I have spaghetti?")

Tightly cover and chill potato salad before eating.

Apart from the wet ingredients, you can omit or add what you like. I did not use bacon tonight, only because I'm saving that for Big A for breakfast tomorrow, and don't have an extra package. Sometimes I add a couple of handfuls of cooked peas. Sometimes I use green onion instead of white. Sometimes I use olive oil instead of the mayo... You get the idea.

What is your go-to potato salad recipe? Do you have a secret ingredient? I would love to test your recipes!

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Creamy Potato Salad Recipe (with Bacon)

Creamy Potato Salad

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