Potato Salad a classic barbecue side dish.

Potato Salad a classic barbecue side dish

Potato salad is flat out an excellent side dish to accompany any barbecue or Dutch oven feast. Easy to make and last a few extra days as an awesome left over (gets better with age). I don't like store bought potato salads and I won't let them past my lips into the temple of gluttony! They are usually to sweet and have way to much mayonnaise for my personal taste. Beside, who knows what they put into it!

I have made my own for about 30 yrs now. It comes from a recipe I begged to get from a friend at a company picnic (it was her mom's). It was the first potato that I ever liked and still is the only potato salad I really, really like. It's all personal preference but seeing as I get lots of compliments for this dish I thought I would share it. It's basic, flavorful and chunky. I like to taste the pieces of food so I make everything chunky, must be a guy thing.

I vary the ingredients a little every time and you can adjust to your personal taste. This will get you started.

Ingredients

6 – 8 potatoes, skin on. (any kind Red, Idaho, Yukon, etc.)

3 – 4 stalks of celery

1 – 2 whole dill pickles

6 – hard boiled eggs (save 2 for the topping

1 – small can of sliced olives

1 tbs of sweet relish

1 tbs of yellow mustard

1 c mayonnaise (use a little at a time to get to the wetness of your liking)

couple of dashes of paprika (for the topping)

salt and pepper to taste

 

Preparation

Clean the potatoes and boil (*or grill) until tender (not soft). Boil eggs until hard. Set aside potatoes and eggs to cool. Once the potatoes and eggs are cool enough to handle it's time to start chunking (yep, new verb). Chop the potatoes, eggs, celery and dill pickle into chucks of your own personal size preference. Mix everything together and add salt and pepper. Add mayonnaise to mixture. Use your own personal taste here, I like it on the dry side.

* Grilling your potatoes instead of boiling adds an entirely new dimension.

OK here's the hard part. Put it into the fridge for 24 hrs to blend. Trust me it will taste so much better!!

Enjoy!