I’m generally not very picky about food, but there are a few things that I will almost never order at a restaurant, or I try to avoid at potlucks and cookouts if I can. Chicken salad, coleslaw, and most of all potato salad. It’s not that I don’t like potato salad, I just don’t like most potato salads. I like the one my mom makes, and a few others, but most others are too mushy, or too goopy, or too sweet, or too one note. What’s with cooking the potatoes to the point that they are basically paste? Or adding so much mayonnaise and mustard that it’s soup? Or adding so much sugar that it tastes like a dessert?
So when I saw this chart, I knew I had to see what I could come up with. After trying a few things, like roasting the potatoes first and adding mustard to the dressing, I served this final recipe at our 4th of July cookout and our friends went nuts over it. Seriously, you’d have thought there was crack in it.