Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Red Skinned Potato Salad and some Garden Pictures

I tried a potato salad recipe by Paula Deen last week and we loved it! I've made my Mother's potato salad for years and tried a couple of others, but this Red Skinned Potato Salad is really delicious! In fact, I have potatoes cooking right now as I write this post, to make some more of this yummy stuff! I did change it a little; I cut the recipe in half for starters, in case we didn't like it. I also used some celery and cut down on the green pepper. I'm making the full recipe today since we all loved it and , it was even better the second day, which is the norm for potato salad. In fact, this is my husband's new favorite potato salad! The sauce has the right amount of tang, although I reduced the Dijon just a bit, and it only has 2 tablespoons of mayo! Amazing!

RED SKINNED POTATO SALAD (adapted from Paula Deen
12 cups of diced, cooked new red skinned potatoes
1/2 cup diced bell pepper
1/2 cup diced red onion
1 large stalk of celery, diced
1/3 cup Red Wine Vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
2 T. mayo
1 1/2 T. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. salt, I used sea salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
In a dutch oven or large pot add scrubbed potatoes and enough water to cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cover pot with a lid and cook potatoes until just tender. Remove potatoes from water to cool. When cool, dice potatoes. In a small bowl, mix together the olive oil, mayo, Dijon, red wine vinegar, salt and pepper and mix til thoroughly combined. In a large bowl add the diced, cooked potatoes, celery, onion, bell pepper and pour the dressing over all and combine well. Refrigerate for several hours before serving. Enjoy!

I've been taking some pictures of some of my perennials this spring and thought I'd share a few with you. Other bloggers have shared some gorgeous photos of their gardens and we've had so much rain, my flowers are doing quite well! Not the vegetables so much, though. Sigh.

Above, is one of my orange Asiatic lilies- they can really get tall and the flowers can be rather large. I moved them last year, so they'll need to play catch up.

I love yellow Coreopsis! They are so dainty on long stems and they love the sun.


Our front porch is on the north where these Impatiens are growing in pots. I love this salmon shade.



And these yellow lilies have bloomed profusely this spring. I enjoy working around the flower beds; it's rather therapeutic and relaxing, most of the time. But, it's so wet right now that the grass and weeds are growing like crazy and it's hard to keep up. Hope you enjoyed my mini garden tour. Have a great week!




22 comments:

  1. Your potato salad sounds delicious. Your flowers are gorgeous.

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  2. Beautiful colors in the garden! I love using red potatoes for salad. It's just more colorful with a different texture than regular old potatoes!

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  3. I love the petals on the coreopsis...very cool! This is a great potato salad...reds are my fave, anyway :)

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  4. Your flowers are gorgeous! I also love the look of that potato salad... a perfect addition to any barbeque this time of year.

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  5. Homemade potato salad is the only kind I'll generally eat--I'm not usually a fan of the store bought kind! I bet it's delicious with the red potatoes!

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  6. I love potato salad! This potato salad surely looks amazing!

    Beautiful pictures of flowers...

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  7. Ok, I love potato salad, and I love red skinned potatoes! Your salad looks absolutely beautiful. I will have to give it a try. I love your site, and will become a follower! Great job.
    ~Lynette

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  8. That potato salad looks delicious! and those are lovely flowers!

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  9. Gorgeous salad and garden :) Love those flowers - wish mine were looking so pretty :)

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  10. I was looking for a potato salad this weekend that had a touch of mayo but not consumed by it and this fits the bill. Thank-you - looks delicious. Will try it!

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  11. Potato salad is good food! YUM YUM

    Your flowers are gorgeous. The colors are so bright and vibrant. Doesn't it just fill you with happiness to see them.

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  12. i like that your tater salad is light on the mayo--it's an ingredient for which i have little tolerance. :)
    lovely flowers, too--i wish i could smell 'em. :)

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  13. Red skinned potatoes make the best potato salad and Paula's recipes never disappoint. Your garden photos are lovely. Thanks for sharing.

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  14. I am loving this potato salad - it looks and sounds delicious.

    The flower pictures are wonderful.

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  15. Your flowers are gorgeous and your potato salad has me drooling. This has to be the most perfect potato salad I have ever seen!

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  16. I love a good potato salad, especially one that features red potatoes! From looking at your pictures, you are quite a green thumb- and a great cook, too!

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  17. Your flowers are so pretty! I need to take some pics of my garden, maybe this weekend.

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  18. Beautiful flowers and beautiful food!! And beautiful pictures by the way. I really need to take lessons from you.

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  19. Those flowers are lovely! Alas, now that the rhodedendrons and azaleas are finished blooming, I've not a single spot of color in my front yard. *sigh* I think I need some of your potato salad to comfort me! :-)

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  20. This potato salad sounds very similar to one I make, so I'm sure it was really tasty. Your flowers look beautiful, I'm still experimenting with different perennials. I have no luck at all with impatiens.

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  21. Mmmm, I was looking for a good potato salad recipe and this looks AWESOME.

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  22. awesome potato salad
    i know i cant repeat it in crete becasue we dont grow varieties of potato - unfortunately, we get one and the same kind throughout the year, and never red-skinned

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