Hello everyone, and welcome to
summer! Come on down to Pathfinder Produce on 7-11 to get all your fresh and delicious fruits and veggies for your summertime meals and get-togethers with friends and family! We’re convenient, competitively priced, and we’ve got the friendliest market staff around!
After the long weekend with its picnics
and Independence Day gatherings, it’s great to know that the good times will
continue with family reunions, weddings, showers, and even late graduation
parties. For your celebratory meals, you can’t go wrong with veggie and fruit
dishes, they are tried and true. Below, my colleague Martha Spiegel relates a
new twist on some standard summer fare, potato salad.
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My sister-in-law recently amazed me with something
unexpected: potato salad! Amazing? Unexpected? Potato salad? Yes! I’ll explain.
I have never been a fan of most mayo-based salads. And the
thought of eating cold, mealy potatoes really turns me off. I have had German
Potato Salad, which is served warm and is not very salad-like, so I tend to
think of it more as a hot side with a heavy meal, and it’s not something I’d
bring to a picnic or barbecue. And with mayo-based salads, you
have to be so careful about keeping them cold or they become unsafe to eat.
So a few weeks back we visited with my husband’s three
sisters. The one who was hosting this family dinner said she was serving potato
salad and she really wanted me to try it because she was sure that I would love
it. I cringed inwardly and tried
to plan polite things to say about it. Then she brought out this beautiful
bowl of potatoes with not a hint of mayo. I was intrigued. She said it was Lemon
Potato Salad, and it was made with olive oil.
I scooped a small amount onto my plate and took a bite. It
was room temperature, maybe on the cool side, but not refrigerator cold. The
potatoes were flavorful, definitely not mealy, and I did love it after all! I’m
not ashamed to say that I had seconds.
Apparently, the secret is pouring some of the dressing,
which is made with lemon zest, over the potatoes while they are still hot so
they soak it up. Aside from grating a bunch of lemon zest, it’s a
very simple recipe, and the recipe blog gives a few options for adding
different herbs to put different spins on it.
So yes, I was unexpectedly amazed at how much I enjoyed that
potato salad, and now I have something new to bring to my next pot luck!
Until next time, try something new and be well!
Martha (and Lori)
