10 Great Takes on the Classic Potato Salad

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Summertime is a time to be outdoors, at the beach or the cottage, with plenty of salad recipes and barbecue recipes that make an appearance every year. These "10 Great Takes on the Classic Potato Salad," will give you something to think about, with some new versions on the popular salad recipe classic.

Potato salad recipes definitely brings me back to my childhood, summertime barbecues with family and friends, and there was always my mothers potato salad recipe. Her potato salad recipe was the classic salad recipe with russet potatoes, a bit tangy, salty and sweet. The classic salad recipe has a bit of crunch (with the chopped celery), and fluffy white potatoes, with some sugar, vinegar, onion, fresh parsley leaves, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper, so good. When I think of making a potato salad recipe I like to make something similar to the easy fingerling potato salad with creamy dill dressing recipe found on this site. This colourful salad recipe uses fingerling potatos (purple too), with some sour cream for a creamy dressing, onions and dill, one little trick include in the salad recipe was using salt and vinegar when boiling the potatos, so the potatos keep their shape and deliver lots of flavour. Potato salads have long been a favorite addition to backyard barbecues and picnics, everyone has a potato salad recipe they like, with your mothers version possibly being different from your choice of potato salad recipe. This site has lots of recipe ideas and inspirations that will keep you busy any night of the week with good food.

There is also a creamy fingerling potato salad recipe, that is a vegan recipe. This vegan recipe uses fingerling and yukon gold potato, with vinegar, hold grain mustard, pickle relish, shallots, extra virgin olive oil, capers, celery and parsley leaves for amazing flavor. There are other amazing potato salad recipes to try on this great recipe website. Potatos for me, are one of my weaknesses, I love potato recipes mashed, fried, roasted and baked. You'll also find lots of other amazing grilling recipes, drink recipes and burger recipes to name a few.

There is a reason potatoes are so popular, they just taste so good, no matter how you cook them, they are comfort food at its best! Potatoes were originally introduced outside the Andes region over four centuries ago, and have since become an important part of much of the world's food supply. Potatoes are the world's fourth largest food crop, followed by maize, wheat, and rice. Popular potato dishes include mashed potatoes, whole baked potatoes,boiled or steamed potatoes, French fried potatoes or chips, cut into cubes and roasted potatoes, scalloped, diced, or sliced and fried (home fries), grated into small thin strips and fried (hash browns), grated and formed into dumplings, R�sti or potato pancakes.

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