Potato Salad

Not my first time doing this dish. Hubby loves this and had being pestering for me to make. Since I had my home-made mayonnaise, decided to prepare this dish using my own mayonnaise.

My original recipe came from here:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/red-skinned-potato-salad/

One thing I like about the recipe from All Recipes, it allows me to see the ingredients in both US or Metric units (or course I go for the Metric). It also allows you to indicate how many servings you are going for and the recipe will adjust according. Quite cool!


Red Skinned Potato Salad Recipe

Prep: 1 hr
Ready in 2 hrs

Ingredients:
makes 12 servings

910g clean, scrubbed new red potatoes
6 eggs
455g bacon (*I used to just put in bacon bits, bought off the shelf)
1 onion, finely chopped
1 stalk celery, finely chopped
475ml mayonnaise
salt and pepper to taste

Method:
1.  Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain and set in the refrigerator to cool.

2. Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Cover and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.

3. Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside.

4. Chop the cooled potatoes, leaving skin on. Add to a large bowl, along with the eggs, bacon, onion and celery. Add mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Chill for an hour before serving.


However today I decided to cut short quite a fair bit of ingredients and steps, hubby seemed to like this just fine too. He did complained the lack of bacon bits though.

The simplified recipe (for one serving)

Ingredient:
1 potato (normal potato)
1 egg
1 onion, chopped
Mayonnaise

Method:
1. Washed and skinned the potato. Chopped up the potato. Bring a pot of salted water to boil. Add chopped potatoes and cook until tender but firm. (chopped potatoes cooked much faster, poked a fork through to determine it's ready). Drain and set aside.

2. Place egg in the saucepan and put to boil. Let it simmer boil for another 3-5 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.

3. Throw the potato, egg and onion into a large bowl. Add mayonnaise and mix well. Chill before serving.