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?
I loooove potato salad, but it is such an effort to make! I like how you specify ‘for starters’ on the mayo, because you never know how much you are going to need.
Eggs are key- sounds like this is a great recipe.
Cheesy Enchiladas:
2 (or more!) lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts, thawed
8 oz. sour cream
4 oz. picante sauce (I add more since I like to spice it up)
1 can cream of chicken soup
8 oz. shredded monterey jack cheese (or mild cheddar)
1 tsp. chili powder, salt and pepper to taste
6 lg. flour tortillas (found in the bread aisle)
Cook chicken for about 10 minutes in boiling water. The chicken does not need to be fully cooked as it will be baked. Cut into bite-sized chunks and place in a large bowl.
Mix sour cream, picante sauce, chili powder, soup, salt and pepper, and ONLY HALF of the cheese in a bowl. Take half of the mixture and mix with the chicken. Reserve the other half of the mixture and the cheese for topping.
Fill 6 flour tortillas with chicken mixture and roll. Place rolled tortillas seam-side up in a 9″ X 13″ pan sprayed with Pam. Top each with remaining mixture – try to cover most of the tortillas with some to keep them from drying out. Cover w/foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 min., uncover, and top w/remaining cheese. Bake another 5-10 minutes. Serve w/hot sauce!
I use this basic recipe with some additions to make my own loaves of bread: http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/cookbook/2009/artisan-bread/boule.html
My husband and I are so used to good crusty artisan bread that after we moved out of the NJ/NY area, we still kept craving it. This bread does a nice job of making good eating bread.
I don’t have the book, yet. One day, I will save up enough from the extras to get this book for myself.
I have used this recipe to make my own pizzas and cinnamon rolls so far. I will keep trying to create new things when I feel like it
I made the mistake of checking in before I’ve had lunch. Now I’m craving a flippin’ buffet. I really love potato salad and then I saw these other recipes…now I’m starving.
Holly, that is truly easy enough even for me! We are totally having that this week! I’ll tell everyone how it turns out, but it sounds DELICIOUS.
Julie, I love homemade bread but haven’t been motivated enough to try making my own before (well, once with a breadmaker but it was loud and the bread turned out flat). I’ll look into this recipe though. I’ve recently started to cook more at home, so this could come in handy!
I have no frugal recipes to add, but just want to say that someday I’m going to try a bread recipe like the one Julie posted!
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