Another thing I have always wanted to like, but just can't make myself, is potato salad. I have tried to eat it so many times, only to throw away the left over heap on my plate.
However, my dad introduced me to a potato salad recipe that he made up (can you say GENIUS in a sing-songy voice?), and I liked it SO much that I have made it twice in two weeks (in addition to eating it at his house while we were in Logan). Yippee! Finally - a potato salad that I like! Now, will someone please help me find a fresh tomato recipe that I will actually like?
Roger's Yummy Potato Salad
posted by Erin of If You Give a Mom a Moment
5-6 medium red potatoes, not peeled - cooked and diced
6 pieces of bacon (1/4 pound), cooked and crumbled
2 1/2 - 3 oz feta cheese, crumbled (I used 4 oz garlic and herb feta, and it was DEELISH)
2 green onions, sliced thin
3 crushed cloves of garlic, cooked in a little of the bacon grease
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup Lighthouse ranch dressing
optional: 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
Chill potatoes. Then mix everything together, and toss in approx 1 cup Lighthouse ranch dressing. Let set in the fridge for 6-8 hours.
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I have mixed feelings about potato salad, but I usally like it. This recipe looks great! I'll have to try it. Maybe I'll serve it with a tasty tomato pie. :)
I'm with you on the potato salad. I just can't like it. It's usually a mouth full of mayo - yuck! I'll have to try this one.
Do I have to tell you that I'm going to be making this? I don't think I do. (because you already know, I mean; not because I'm not making it).
I hated tomatoes worse than most anything for the first 24 years of my life (same issue: nasty, slimy gushy guts, and I wasn't even sure about the flavor). Now I'm making up for all of those years by cutting my tomato slices EXTRA thick. Oooooooo yummy. I hope you can learn to love them, too!
I love tomatoes AND potato salad. Delicious!
The two foods I wish I liked, but I just don't are: Tomatoes and Fish. I keep trying, but they're just too icky in my mouth.
My sister swears by an apple pie recipe that includes tomatoes. She says you can't taste them. I have my doubts.
I do love all things potato, though. And potato salad with feta?! We have a Charles family saying: "Feta makes it betta".
YUM!
Now, this sounds like a potato salad that I could like! (But leave off the eggs...) :)
Yum, I make one very similar to this! HATE normal potato salad with crunchy things in it--especially when the potatoes are crunchy. Ew!
Love tomatoes but as for potato salad I am just like you I hate it and gag on it every time I try to eat it!!! same with macaroni salad or coleslaw I just can't take them!!So glad you found one you can eat. I may just have to give it a try.
That sounds good! Will have to try it. And don't give up on tomatoes. I hated them too- would pick off burgers, everything- but suddenly in the last two years I love them! Can't have a Sandwich without it now.
This looks yummy! I love potato salad and I'm always looking for a good recipe.
I love tomatoes just sprinkled with salt and pepper -- as long as they are nice and RIPE! :)
Well, you can't go wrong with bacon, feta and garlic. Smart man.
I keep trying to like fish, but every time it's still disgusting. I do love tomatoes, though!
My eyes are rolling back in my head at how delicious this sounds. And I just made a chicken and fresh tomato recipe for my husband who hates tomatoes, but he loves this one. Balsamic vinegar, fresh rosemary, fresh basil. Tasty sauce. SO GOOD.
That recipe sounds yummy. Maybe it's the mustard that bugs you in the more common potato salads? I love potato salad pretty much all around, especially with dill relish. I also LOVE tomatoes. I love a fresh salsa dip and I can eat tomatoes like an apple and be happy. I think they were put on earth just for me. Haha. I used to have an inside joke between me and a old friend about potatoes though. I had to have my DPI: Daily potato intake. Since I basically LOVE Potatoes so much as well. I'm really just kind of a foody. Sorry I don't know how to help you like tomatoes, it's like me and peas or mushrooms. I've tried to like peas. Anyway, I was planning on doing BLTs for dinner tonight. The bacon was too pricey though. Now that I've read your blog I might end up just go and buy the bacon anyway, you just reinforced the craving.
This sounds so good! I love feta cheese. Will have to try it soon!
I think it is totally a texture thing with tomatoes. I didn't start eating them until I was forty. Seriously.
One of my favorite tomato recipes is just a simple sliced tomato with sliced mozzerella and fresh basil coated with balsamic vinegar and a little olive oil. Such a great side to any summer meal. Also, I could eat a tomato and mayo sandwich every day for the rest of my life and be happy. :) Keep trying!
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