A few years back I made potato salad for the first time. I browsed through a number of recipes and couldn’t find quite the right one. I had an idea of how I wanted it to taste, so I pieced together different components from a bunch of recipes and created my own. As I made it more and more it evolved into the recipe I used today.
You can definitely make your own potato salad for cheaper than you can buy it from the deli counter and you probably have most, if not all, the ingredients on hand. It will taste better too… the potatoes in those salads just never seem right, you know?
We like our potato salad to have lots of big chunks of egg. We also like dill, especially when it is fresh dill from the garden (but dried dill will do – bonus points if you dehydrated it yourself!). If you’re lucky enough to have some homemade pickle relish in your pantry it really works great in this. Or, if a few years ago you planted 15 mounds of zucchini in the garden and have a whole bunch of zucchini relish in the pantry, this is a good opportunity to get rid of some of it.Read More »