Saturday, June 22, 2013
Strange Recipe For Potato Salad - I'll Let You Know How It Turns Out
John was gone all last week - in Chicago for business. Playing golf and eating in unique restaurants. He came back with a recipe he wanted me to try. It's for Potato Salad, which I was already planning on making for Sunday. (If you don't believe me, just check in the door of the refrigerator where the hard-boiled eggs are waiting.) I was going to wait until tomorrow to start, but the first step was so different that I couldn't wait. You "candy" (cook in a sugar syrup - this one uses vinegar and sugar - and then leave the seeds to soak in the liquid after you have thickened it) 1/2 cup of Mustard Seeds. The rest is a fairly straightforward Mayonnaise-based Red Potato Salad, just adding the sugary seed at the end. It also calls for some honey, which I will test on a spoonful before I commit the entire batch. But the recipe doesn't include eggs. Maybe I'll Devil them. Maybe those Deviled Eggs will be the only thing worth eating when I'm done.
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I'll bet that potato salad wil be delicious. I don't put eggs in my potato salad just onion, sweet relish, mustard, mayo and celery seed. And deviled eggs--yum hope your picnic iß a great success.
ReplyDeleteHi Sanda - The picnic was lovely. I never remember celery seed, and it totally makes the potato salad. I'm putting it on my shopping list. Thanks for the reminder.
DeleteYes, please let us know how the potato salad turns out I'm not sure about the recipe!
ReplyDeleteHi Cindy - It was great potato salad, but not worth all the trouble unless it's for company. I'll bet just mixing up the dressing and forgetting about the mustard seed would result in one almost as good. Maybe doing lots of mustard seed and freezing the extra for future cooking would be a good idea. But it is fun to try a new recipe.
DeleteWell, I love honey mustard salad dressing, so maybe it's not completely crazy. Look forward to hearing how it went!
ReplyDeleteHi Shelley - You would be the one to analyze the recipe perfectly - pretty smart! I didn't even think of Honey Mustard Dressing. I've got to try just pouring store bought dressing over potatoes next time I'm in a hurry. But it was totally delicious!
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