Lately I've gone crazy with this summers bounty of produce. It helps that there's so much of it that most stores are having great sales. So I bought some beautiful, buttery, Yukon Gold potatoes and made potato salad with them. I call this salad Amazing because my son who is a manager at a small restaurant tasted it and said it was amazing. He is my best measurement of a successful dish. He doesn't ever hold back to spare my feelings if he feels that something I made is bad. I call it Two Finger because I used a new cleaver to cut the potatoes and of course I cut into two of my fingers. What was I thinking? After I'd done that and had to throw away the potato I'd been cutting, I finished cutting the potatoes with a proper knife and pulled out my little chopper for the rest of the vegetables.
I have a bullet blender which I love but when I try to just chop onions they always end of liquefied. I needed my onions to be whole crispy finely chopped pieces for the texture. The chopper I have is one of those tiny electric ones with the horizontal blades at the bottom. It works perfectly for the texture I want.
I will give you the recipe but as with all of my recipes the measurements are approximate because I don't measure. Add the ingredients to your own taste.
To get the proper doneness of the potatoes I always peel and cut them into the size pieces I want before I boil them. I cut the potatoes small for this salad, and I just keep testing their doneness every few minutes after it's boiled for about five minutes.
While I'm waiting for them to be ready I start to load my chopper with the following,
- 1/4 sweet onion
- 1/4 red pepper
- 1/4 orange pepper
- 1/4 yellow pepper
- 1/4 green pepper
- 1 stalk of celery
- 2 radishes
Now it's time for the secret sauce. I put in
- 1 cup of mayo made with olive oil
- 1/2 cup of sour cream
- 1/2 cup of plain yogurt
- 1 splash of milk
Photo by Roland
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