Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Potato Salad

    In my opinion! Potato salad should be a very simple thing.  Seems people put all kinds of stuff in and still call it potato salad. Come on people, filling potato salad with peas,celery well maybe a little celery leaf finely chopped but no mustard. No Miracle Whip. Please no Miracle Whip. Save that stuff for cole slaw. I will get into that at another time, Now back to Potato Salad.
    Here is the million dollar Bar B Q Potato Salad recipe. Wash twelve large Russet baking size potatoes. Do not peal them! Wipe the potato skins lavishly with REAL butter and wrap in Reynolds Wrap. Yes buy the good wrap that cheap store brand will not protect the potatoes and you will notice the difference! Lay the wrapped taters on the top shelf of your Bar B Q and fire it off. Set the flame to low and close the lid ,Bake for forty minutes or until taters  squeeze. If you can`t squeeze them they need more cooking. Now back to the kitchen. Put 13 eggs in a large pot, cover eggs with cold water and put on stove. Set burner to highest setting bring water to a boil reduce heat to next lowest setting and set timer for Ten minutes. When timer goes off turn off burner and let eggs sit for ten minutes. Get out cutting board and chopping knife along with a medium red onion. Slice off the root end and discard in trash OUTSIDE. That will tame the onion and your kitchen will not retain the sprit of the onion till you take out the trash. Now slice the onion in half put on half into a freezer zip bag anything else and your milk will taste like onion in the morning. Finely dice the remaining half and put it into a large Tupper wear bowl. Now dump the eggs into the sink and let cold water run into the pan pick up each egg and run it under cold water and crack it throughly and drop it into pan of cold water . Let the cold water run over the eggs as you peel them. Put the thirteen whole peeled eggs into the tupper wear bowl along with finely chopped red onion. Now gather up six very leafy celery stalks. Chop off the celery and stuff with pimento cheese put these aside. Now chop the celery leaf not too fine, you want to see a little leaf! Scoop celery leaf into bowl with whole eggs and chopped red onion burp bowl and put into frig. Clean up kitchen. Now it should be about time to check on them taters. Pop the lid and squeeze taters with a pot holder wrapped around tater( they should be hot potatoes by now) If they are squeezable turn off Bar Bee and remove taters and set out on counter to cool for 30 minutes. Now go to frig and get stuffed celery and a beer. Sit down put your feet up, pop the beer and eat the stuffed celery celery. After thirty minutes or when your nap is over put wrapped taters in frig.
     Next day! remove wrapped taters and burped bowl from frig along with a quart of Best Foods Real Mayonnaise. Don`t even think about miracle whip that stuff is for cole slaw. Don`t go cheap and buy store brand mayonnaise it just won`t taste the same. 
    Now unwrap all your taters. Next peel all of your russet Bar B Q beauties. Next remove two eggs from the bowl set them aside. Next chop the remanning eleven eggs into quarter inch squares. Put chopped eggs into bowl with chopped celery. Next slice and chop your taters into quarter inch squares, put taters into bowl with eggs. Now don`t get too carried away with measuring the quarter inch squares if you are in a hurry half inch squares will do. The ingredients will just blend better with quarter inch squares. Now get out a rubber spatula and empty THE WHOLE QUART of Best Foods real mayonnaise into your bowl of ingredients. Mix thoroughly you want the mayo to cover everything and everything to blend. When onion seems to be evenly distrubuted  you are done. Next remove one half cup of blended mixture,set aside. Next take spatula and smooth mixture flat. Now slice the last two eggs and decorate the top of your mixture with egg slices. Lightly sprinkle top of mixture with paprika. By now you are most likely wondering why I have been calling my creation a mixture and not Potato Salad. Well now you need to cover the bowl give it a burp and TOMORROW it will be Bar B Q Potato salad. For now you can eat the half cup of mixture and imagine what it will be tomorrow. LOve Dad 


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