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You Can’t Have a Picnic Without Potato Salad…. and now you won’t be able to have one without Nana’s famous Potato Salad.
Nana’s Potato Salad – you can’t beat the original!
What is so wonderful about these old-school cooking methods and recipes is that they are so simple and you make as much as you need. If you are having a party, make more, if it is just family make less. It is all spiced according to your own taste. So you end up with something you really like. Although these recipes are not Italian per se, they are made with the same rustic principles you find in Italian Cooking. Happy Memorial Day to the Americans and Happy Summer to everyone else (unless you are in Australia, NZ or South America (or anywhere else I have forgotten)!).
INGREDIENTS:
5 Yukon gold potatoes , boiled and peeled- red skinned is great too (but leave the skins on!)!
Cut up celery, into small pieces
Cut up green pepper into small pieces
Cut up white onion, into small pieces
Green olives with pimentos, cut up into small pieces
3 hardboiled eggs, boiled, cut up into small pieces
Salt, pepper and mayo to taste
Garnish with paprika - my favorite is sweet Hungarian paprika
METHOD:
Boil the potatoes and eggs until they are ready. Once they have cooled you cut them up into small pieces. Mix with all the other ingredients in a bowl. Garnish with Paprika. Chill until serving.
Serves: varies
25 Responses to “Recipe: Nana’s Potato Salad” »
The salad looks great…btw, thanks for adding my blog to the foodie blogroll…
Hi Sunita!
The salad is great and the beauty of it is that it is so simple to make!
My pleasure about the blogroll. I am so excited to have this much food talent at my fingertips now!
Jenn, potato salad is one of my all-time favourite things to have. I like your Nana’s recipe and I’ve bookmarked it to try soon.
Gosh it looks so good.
Hi Cynthia!
Well you gotta let me know how you like it if you try it! Trust me, it is delicious!
If I’d seen these on Saturday they’d have definitly been on my “fight night” menu. Next time though - I love potato salad and am always game to try a new recipe.
Ah man! Well I guess there is always next time!
Oh yum, potato salad is one of my favourite things to eat
And you’ve made it with lots of eggs, my favourite way!
Hi Ahona!
Yes, I love it with the eggs as well! It makes it that much better.
J - there is nothing like homemade potato salad… the stuff from the tub is just not right - J
Totally, Jenn! I completely agree, especially since it is so easy to make the good stuff!
My son just loves potato salad, wait until I show him yours when he gets back from school, he’ll ask me to make for lunch tomorrow, even though it’s been cold here!
Cris, that is great! Hope he likes it!
Ah, the family recipe handed down through the generations. We have one of those for potato salad, too, although if my daughter doesn’t get over the vegan thing, it is going to die with me.
But I find myself turning to my grandmother’s recipes often - they are always simple and delicious!
That’s the thing I love about my Grandmother’s cooking, it is simple and perfect and easy to replicate time and time again. It is a wonderful thing to remember her by!
You should post your recipe, I am sure tons of people on the Foodie Blogroll will keep it alive for you!
That does sound real good! I do like a potato salad and combining it with egg makes it real comfort food! Well done Nana!
Nana’s stuff is always the best!
Hi Jenn! Wow, serious comfort food! I can’t tell you how good that looks to me right now!
I love the idea of using paprika in the potato salad - yours looks yummy!
Hi Amanda! Comfort food, yes. Summer comfort food.
Hi Patricia, The paprika really adds a nice touch to it. I love paprika and all its varieties. It would be fun to experiment with the different types and see how it changes the flavor of the dish!
this sounds great. Its a must try soon as I love salads.Thanks for sharing jenn.
You are so welcome Meena! I hope you like it!
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you didnt give a dressing recipe for this- is there one?
Oops! Sorry! It is just mayo and a little mustard!
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