Continuing on with the old pictures I need to post…

Here we have what I consider to be my best yet potato salad.

I wasn’t really a fan of potato salad as a kid. I think this is because I don’t care for the type of potato salad with lots of mustard and hard boiled eggs. I don’t love mustard but I can deal with it in small quantities. I love hard boiled eggs…but I don’t want them in my potato salad. I also don’t like raw regular onions in my potato salad (or tuna salad or any other salad). Anyway, I never ate much potato salad as a kid because of the mustard, onions and eggs but I’m a pretty big fan of it now.

This potato salad was made with red and white new potatoes from my local farmer’s market. After cooking and draining the potatoes and letting them cool for a little while, I tossed them with a few heavy splashes of rice wine vinegar. I lightly mashed a few of the potato chunks as I think it improves the texture of my potato salads. From there, I added chopped celery and green onions, a heavy splash of lemon juice, a little bit of dijon mustard, mayonnaise and sour cream. I added some salt and pepper to taste and the salad was complete.

Sorry that I don’t have a more concise recipe for this potato salad. Everytime I make salads of this sort, I kind of make it up as I go. A little of this, a dash of that…until it tastes right. This salad definitely tasted right. So right that I ate it all nearly by myself in just a couple of days.

On to the non-food stuff: I’m on vacation. Woohoo! I’m looking forward to lots of reading at the beach. I might even knit a little since I probably won’t be cooking much this week. I’ve got a few projects that I need to work on…like Christmas stockings for us for the new house. I started one months and months ago and haven’t touched it since. I also promised a coworker a pair of fingerless mitts. I have the yarn for them and they’re a pretty quick knit so I’m going to attempt to start and finish them next week.

I’m currently reading the Julia Child biography My Life in France. I absolutely love the book so far. If you like food or France at all, read it.

The house is still in progress but a walk-through has officially been scheduled for a week from now. Finally. But we’re still not sure when we’ll move.

That’s it for now…I think it might be time for a sunset walk on the ocean. Try not to be too jealous of me.

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