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> I was looking at Chow.com this morning and found some links to various
> potato salads. This one sounded interesting enough to try
> http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/al...c-5c7704a7146c
> After that I followed a link to a sweet potato salad made with a
> citrus vinaigrette, then Google suggested sweet potato salad with a
> mustard vinaigrette. Thinking I want to make a "different" kind of
> potato salad before summer and my motivation to do that disappears.
>
> Do you ever experiment or do you stick with the potato salad everybody
> likes best? I don't make it very often, so I tend to be a
> traditionalist. By that, I mean I make my version of my mother's
> recipe (and my children make their variations of mine).
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> Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to
> hold them.

I always make different ones and never make one that everyone likes. My dad
never liked mine. Said it had no flavor, no matter what kind I made. They
did have flavor but what they were missing was egg. My mom always put egg
in hers but I felt that hers had no flavor. I think she put Miracle Whip in
hers. But she used little in the way of seasonings. I always thought that
I hated potato salad until I tried some others.

One of my favorites was just sliced potatoes with lots of sliced onions and
a vinaigrette type dressing. But nobody else liked it. More recently I
have been doing roasted with bacon. Here is the basic recipe and then I
will tell you how I modified it.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Roasted...r_results_p1i1

Based on reviewers suggestions, I coated the potatoes with Dijon mustard
before roasting. Oooh the flavor!!! I also added more celery and onion
and did not add the egg. I did put bits of egg on other people's portions
as a garnish but left them out as I couldn't eat them. Angela did not like
this at all but husband and I loved it.