I recently made a batch of potato salad, thanks to The Cookery Column Retro with Carol Taylor on Smorgasbord Blog Magazine. This cookery wizard, who shares recipes from around the world, featured coleslaw, potato salad and potato cakes.
It reminded me that I shared the recipe for Mom’s famous potato salad in the last chapter of The Immigrant and the Outlaw, along with how I got talked into making a huge batch of it when Mom couldn’t because of a hip replacement. (The story was first published in the Valley News, October 18, 1996.)
Mom would be disappointed in my recent concoction because I didn’t use any of her “musts,” thinking maybe my Favorite Guy would rave anyway. (He said it needed more relish, which he added to his serving.)
Mom’s Potato Salad, along with her tips and tricks, is in Chapter 13 of The Immigrant and the Outlaw: A Collection of Stories from America’s Heartland.
While I’m at it, I’ll share another of Mom’s famous recipes, along with a shortcut that she okayed. Here’s her Caramel-Pecan Cloverleaf Rolls.
It is getting to be potato salad season, isn’t it! I’ll have to make some.
It is your mother’s recipe?
I love potato salad!
Yes!
My mom made a super potato salad as well. Try as I might, I never get it quite as good as hers!
Thank you, Darlene. I may have to try again. . .
Thanks for the recipe for the caramel-pecan rolls Joy and looking forward to reading more about the potato salad when I read the collection. ♥♥
Thanks, Sally. Mom didn’t learn to cook until after she was married. Growing up during the Depression, they had such limited resources, then she waitressed and lived where she couldn’t cook, and during the war the only places available didn’t allow cooking! But she read cookbooks and turned into a great cook!