SALAD/POTATO SALAD

   BY MOMMA AND JOAN

     Don't get too fussy or fancy with this...
it will taste better if you keep it simple!  Prepare it a day in advance for flavors to 

blend in.  If making for a crowd, just 
double this recipe.

Ingredients:

10 to 12 Russet baking potatoes

1/2 cup of chopped fine celery

1/2 cup white onion chopped fine

1/2 cup chopped gherkin pickles

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1/2 cup Miracle Whip Salad Dressing

salt and pepper to taste

In large pan, boil potatoes with salt

and skin on potatoes.

Are they done? Stick a knife in potato to check.

if the knife goes in easy..they're done, don't overcook.

When potatoes are cooled to touch,

peel and cube potatoes (bite sized pieces)

Add celery, onion, pickles and mix together.

Mix in mayonnaise and salad 

dressing.  Add a little, a tablespoon or two, 

of the sweet pickle juice. Mix.  

Sprinkle on salt and pepper to taste.

Put in a glass serving bowl, pottery bowl, 

or your favorite serving dish. If you'd like

add some sliced hard boiled eggs and

sprinkle on some Paprika.

Momma used regular cooking potatoes, and

she mixed her potato salad when the potatoes

were still warm.  Joan likes the Russet potatoes,

 purple onions and sprinkles on chopped (or dried)
 parsley.

Though many of us try to duplicate or create a potato salad as tasty as Momma,

Dad said most recently, "No one tops your mother's potato salad, absolutely no one!"

A Proud Dad sitting on his newly renovated tractor, October 2010.

This was a lot of work for an 81 year old man!

Everyone has their own favorite potato salad recipe.  Instead of the sweeter version, as Momma's is,  Try chopped dill pickles, crumbled bacon on the top, mustard, fresh chopped dill, green pepper, red pepper, shredded cheddar cheese, etc.  For a change though...try Momma's!