Tag Archives: Potato Salad

Comfort Foods: Meat and Potatoes

Continuing with our “Comfort Foods” theme, today I am focusing on the classic combination of meat and potatoes. There are some people who don’t go a single day without ingesting at least one meal that features a hearty helping of meat and potatoes. For these individuals the combo screams comfort. While I make a concerted effort not to serve meat and potatoes for dinner every night, I do admit that the combo brings back fond memories of my childhood. The following recipes were some of my favorites: CLASSIC MEATLOAF Ingredients: 2 pounds ground chuck 1 envelope dry onion soup mix … Continue reading →

Simple Sunday Night Meal: Turkey Burgers and Grandma’s Potato Salad

Whether you are settling in to watch uninterrupted coverage of the Academy Awards or you just don’t feel like spending half the day in the kitchen preparing a single meal, then the following recipes should come in very handy. This simple Sunday night menu proves that you don’t have to sacrifice taste for convenience: CLASSIC TURKEY BURGERS Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey 1/8 cup seasoned breadcrumbs 3 tablespoons finely diced onion 1 egg white, lightly beaten 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 1 teaspoon garlic salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper Directions: In a large bowl, mix ground turkey, seasoned … Continue reading →

Autumn Recipes: C is for Comfort Food

Fall’s cooler weather makes piping hot, down home comfort food taste that much better. When I think of comfort food thoughts of my grandfather’s famous pot roast and my dad’s incredible meatloaf and my grandmother’s warm potato salad (featuring chunks of fall apples and thick smoky bacon) come to mind. Both take prep time that you might not have on a busy weeknight, but on a late Sunday afternoon when a stiff wind is blowing leaves across your yard a hot homemade meal is the perfect way to embrace the season. OLD FASHION MEATLOAF Ingredients: 1 cup of finely chopped … Continue reading →

Preparing Popular Picnic Foods

When planning a summertime picnic there are a few staples that always make the cut. In my family they include potato salad and hot dogs (if my dad is cooking it’s potato salad and Kielbasa sausage). The crowd-pleasing summertime foods are favorites in many families namely because they are simple to prepare and can feed a ton of people without too much effort. The following recipes might be a tad labor intensive, but the time you put into them will win you raves from your guests. The recipe for Kielbasa and Peppers can do double duty as an appetizer or … Continue reading →

Weight a Minute! The Unfortunate Potato Salad Incident

My mom makes to-die-for potato salad. She starts with potatoes that have been baked in foil and then diced, adds chopped radishes, green onions, olives and sweet pickles, and then stirs in a sauce of mayonnaise, mustard, and reserved sweet pickle juice. The crowning touch – bacon bits. This salad has been made for every special occasion during my whole lifetime, but because it’s labor intensive, it’s only made maybe twice a year, if that. Two weeks ago, I’d had a great week. I was making wise food choices, I’d been exercising, I’d taken off another pound (and got to … Continue reading →

Two Tasty Potato Salad Recipes

Potato salad was a staple of our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners growing up. It did not matter whether we had turkey or ham, we could always count on having my grandmother’s potato salad. Everyone who ever ate it raved about it perhaps because she had a few secrets ingredients (which I will share in a minute). Apparently cooking is not genetic because I did not inherit my grandmother’s skill in making potato salad. I always try and dear husband always eats it, but it is always a little … off. To start with, I can never cook my potatoes just … Continue reading →