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Default Potato Salad ala Bagna Cauda

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:12:46 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:43:25 -0700, wrote:
>
>>
>>I wanted to take a potato salad to a potluck I attended at the park
>>last week. I didn't want to take a mayonnaise dressed potato salad and
>>have it sitting around on a hot day, so I got busy looking for
>>non-mayo ideas for dressing a potato salad.
>>After rambling through a couple of cooking magazines I found the
>>perfect one in the July-August issue of Food Network Magazine. The
>>magazine has a little "fly out" booklet with 50 great potato salad
>>ideas and I snagged one, the Bagna Cauda idea.
>>
>>It's delicious and was a really big hit at the picnic.
>>
>>Step by step and photos on my blog if you are interested.
>>
http://www.kokoscornerblog.com/mycor...gna-cauda.html
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/3ohutln
>>
>>Here's the recipe I used.
>>
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>>Bagna Cauda
>>
>>salads/salad dressings, vegetables
>>
>>1 pound red potatoes; boiled and sliced
>>1/3 cup olive oil
>>6 anchovy fillets
>>4 cloves garlic; smashed
>>1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
>>1/4 cup chopped parsley
>>1/4 cup chopped scallions
>>1 tablespoon chopped oregano
>> juice and zest of one lemon
>>
>>In the olive oil, cook the anchovies, garlic and red pepper flakes for
>>5 minutes. Then add the parelsy, scallions, oregano the zest and juice
>>of one lemon.
>>Drizzle over 1 pound of boiled sliced red potatoes.
>>
>>koko's notes;
>>For the potatoes I used small white potatoes, boiled and chunked.
>>It didn't taste spicy enough for my taste so I amped up the anchovies
>>and red pepper flakes.

>
> Looks good but for one pound of potatoes it wasn't worth dirtying a
> bowl... and you peeled them, so there was even less, wouldn't fill a
> cavity... and to me all that dressing looks sufficent for three pounds
> of potatoes. I wouldn't consider cooking one pound of potatoes for
> anything... I typically use an entire five pound bag, may reserve the
> two largest for baked... I like to make plenty for left overs, potato
> salad tastes even better the next day... if it was worth making at all
> then make more than one serving. I can't believe that anyone goes to
> the trouble of making potato salad with just one measly pound of
> spuds... normal folks buy that little bit at the deli.


just how much ****ing potato salad do your cats eat?

blake