{"id":391,"date":"2014-09-03T00:32:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-09-06T00:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:21:44","slug":"moms-secret-potato-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/moms-secret-potato-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom’s Secret Potato Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday, August 16, 2014 – So one of my mother’s most popular recipes is her secret potato salad recipe. (I call it a secret recipe, but if you’ve ever eaten it, you’ll realize it’s not so secret.) So I figure I’d prolly learn it and keep the family recipe going.<\/p>\n

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And in the spirit of secret recipes, I’m going to share it with you.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/h3>\n

2 eggs
\n2 small russet potatoes
\n2 large carrots
\n1 apple (Honeycrisp or Fuji or Gala)
\nmayonnaise
\nraisins<\/p>\n

Instructions<\/h3>\n

Hard-boil and peel eggs. Peel and cook potatoes and carrots. Peel apples. Chop everything into ~1\/4 inch dice.<\/p>\n

Mix the eggs, potatoes, carrots, and apple together, with just enough mayo to achieve the desired consistency. Garnish with raisins.<\/p>\n

Serves 16.<\/p>\n

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In case you can’t tell, that’s a lot of potato salad. Which makes sense, given that there are usually ~16 people at the potlucks my mother goes to. You’d prolly want to halve that recipe. Which might involve chopping a quarter of an apple and eating the rest. Depending on what kind of texture you want, you might even want to up it to half an apple.<\/p>\n

Speaking of apples, originally, the only apple I’d ever used extensively was the granny smith apple. So I decided to use granny smith apples in my first attempt at this recipe. Except granny smiths are way too tart and have kind of a crispy texture. So I asked my mother (and polled all my friends), and we’ve collectively decided that Honeycrisps, Fujis, or Galas are the best to use. (Maybe I should go buy one of each apple and eat them all to get an idea of how apples taste. Mmm… apples…)<\/p>\n

Also note that I didn’t tell you how to cook your veggies. My mom steams them in the rice cooker. I prefer boiling them. You want the carrots to cook until they’re soft and tender. The potatoes, on the other hand, want to be firm but fully cooked.<\/p>\n

This one’s a popular dish back with my parents’ social group in California, and I’m glad I can share it with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. (Also, it’s a lot of chopping, so I hope you enjoy chopping stuff.)<\/p>\n

Update Friday, September 5, 2014<\/b> – After making another batch, I’ve decided that a whole apple works better in the recipe. (I used a gala apple this time. Because they’re much cheaper than Fuji apples, and Uwajimaya doesn’t carry Honeycrisps right now.)<\/p>\n

Bonus pic: Close-up of steamed broccoli. What does this have to do with potato salad? Nothing, really. I only included it here because I was doing a “veggie cooking day” and decided to steam some broccoli while I was chopping everything.<\/p>\n

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