What Do You Call a Baby Potato?

A small fry!

Since I was a young child I have been a connoisseur of potato salad...it is more American to me than apple pie, which is funny because kartofel salat is German. Anyhoo, I have been asked to give up my favorite recipe so please enjoy. I have also added two youtube video links for your watching pleasure, (Potato Salad Triplet Contortionists) and (The Potato Song) both videos are worthy of this magnificent tuber.

Tamiz Famous Potato Salad

Ingredients

8 cups diced raw red potatoes
4 hard boiled eggs
2 cups chopped dill pickles (kosher crunchy are the best!)
1 ½ cups bacon bits
¾ cup finely chopped green onion
1 cup *Best Foods mayonnaise
1 cup *Wishbone Italian dressing

In a small pot, place your eggs in room temp water, set on medium heat and boil. By starting the eggs at room temperature you avoid random shell cracking. Here is another cool thing to do to eggs: If you spin eggs before you boil them, the centrifical (the actual spelling of this word is centrifugal) force makes the yolk stay in the very center of the egg which makes for pretty deviled eggs.

While your eggs are boiling, place your diced potatoes in salted water and boil. Watch carefully, you don’t want to over-cook the potatoes or the skins will separate and become a mushy mess.

While this is going on, place the bacon bits, mayonnaise and Italian dressing in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Quickly chop dill pickles and green onions and add these to the dressing.

If your eggs are done, drain the boiling water and cool them off by running under cold water. By cooling the eggs off quickly, they contract and are easier to peel, but don’t leave them for long or they will expand a bit and peels wont slip off as easily. I really dislike chopping eggs and find it somewhat gratifying to don vinyl exam gloves and squeeze the eggs through my fingers so they make small crumbles. Really…who is going to care?

After you have added the egg crumbles to the dressing mix, the potatoes should be done. Drain the potatoes and if the skins are starting to slip off, run them under cold water…this will stop them from cooking. Drain the potatoes and stir into the other ingredients, I like to do this while they are still hot, but the potato salad tastes good hot or cold…

Serve and enjoy!

* I have found these brands to be the best and most consistent for yummy results.