Does Potato Salad have a season?
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| October 17, 2011
In Desperation Dinners, Kitchen Basics
Featured Recipe: Everyday Potato Salad with Dill
From last week's Desperation Dinners column:
Does potato salad have a season? I don’t think so. But in a recent conversation with several self-proclaimed “foodies,” I found out some folks think it is strictly a spring/summer side dish. Potato salad ingredients are simple, inexpensive and readily available year round, so why not serve it in the fall or winter?
I vividly remember Christmas hams at my grandmother’s house served with potato salad with mayonnaise dressing and lots of pickles. And Sunday dinners seemed to always include a potato salad of some kind on the sideboard. Maybe it’s a Southern thing?
Today’s recipe is my new favorite way to enjoy potato salad anytime of the year. It’s not a mayonnaise-based salad, but instead uses olive oil and lemon as dressing. To my mind, the most important ingredient in any potato salad recipe is salt. It is the salt that brightens and enhances each individual ingredient and brings them all together. I add salt when I toss the freshly cooked potatoes with the dressing (no matter what type) and then salt to taste after the salad has cooled. As far as I’m concerned, a potato salad without enough salt is as sad as sunburn on the first day of vacation – it just ruins it.
Do you think potato salad has a season?
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From Alicia Ross - October 17, 2011
Kathy H from Hurst, TX writes: I make my potato salad similarly but I use chopped dill pickles. If you want an even bigger taste treat add some crushed rosemary. That is a very good addition especially if refrigerated for several hours or overnight. For this size recipe probably about 3 teaspoons of rosemary. I dated a chef a long time ago and I couldn’t quit eating his potato salad. He finally told me what was different about it and it was the rosemary.