The following is a guest post from Funny about Money.

My friend Doris was my mother’s age. A sturdy little Irish-American Midwesterner, she had a heritage of Irish, German, and Yankee home cookin’.  One of the favorites she passed down to her kids and younger friends was this really delicious, old-fashioned potato salad.

Doris’s Potato Salad

• 8 red potatoes, boiled until just soft, peeled and chopped into chunks
• 6 eggs, hard-boiled
• 1 tsp yellow mustard
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 cup mayo [for starters]
• 1 cucumber, seeded, and sliced thin along bias
• 1 stalk celery, slice thin along bias
• 1/4 cup yellow onion, chopped
• 2 or 3 radishes, sliced thin

Remove yolks from the hard-boiled eggs. Crush the yolks in a mixing bowl. Slice the egg whites thin and in separate bowl, add them to the potato chunks. Add the mayo, mustard and sugar with crushed egg yolks and mix until the mixture is smooth. Combine the dressing with the potato chunks. Add cucumber, celery and radishes and toss into the salad. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add more mayo, if needed, to coat the potato mixture. Toss thoroughly. Chill and serve.

If desired, you can zing this up a bit with a spoonful of capers, or combine sour cream or high-quality plain yogurt with the mayonnaise.

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Crystal’s Questions:
Do you have any frugal recipes you’d like to share?  How about super easy ones for a non-cook like me?